Service Manager, Care at Home

Enable; Fraserburgh; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cash plans

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loans

Blue Light Card

SVQ funding for qualifications

Job summary

Enable Scotland is seeking an experienced Service Manager to lead our Care at Home and Housing Support services across the North East. The role requires developing teams, delivering high-quality, person-centred care, and maintaining regulatory standards.

You will be responsible for shaping service culture, supporting frontline staff, and building strong relationships with families, commissioners and partners while travelling across the region as needed to ensure consistency and growth.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading and managing Supported Living Services.
• Experience managing teams with culture change knowledge.
• Commitment to inclusion of people with a learning disability.
• Understanding of the Self Directed Support Act and its principles.
• Willingness to work towards the SSSC registration qualification (SVQ).
• SVQ Health & Social Care Level 3 is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop Care at Home and Housing Support services across the North East.
• Provide leadership and oversight to deliver high-quality, person-centred support.
• Drive continuous improvement, safeguarding and regulatory compliance.
• Build strong relationships with people supported, families, colleagues and partners.
• Travel between services as required to cover a diverse area.

Skills

Leadership experience

Team management

Inclusion commitment

Self Directed Support Act knowledge

Stakeholder partnership building

Local business strategy leadership

Driving licence

Education

SVQ Health & Social Care Level 3

SVQ Level 4 / undertaking qualification for SSSC

Job description

35 hours per week

Based in Fraserborough, including travel to Dundee & Aberdeenshire

£36,050 per annum

Full Time Permanent

Service Manager, Care at Home

Are you an experienced, passionate and values-led leader looking for an opportunity to make a real difference to the lives of people across the North East? We are looking for an enthusiastic Service Manager to lead and develop our Care at Home and Housing Support services across the North East. This is a varied and rewarding role, providing leadership and oversight across a range of services and supporting teams to deliver high-quality, person-centred support that enables people to live as independently as possible within their own homes and communities.

You’ll be responsible for creating a positive culture, developing and supporting your teams, driving continuous improvement and ensuring the people we support experience excellent outcomes. You’ll build strong relationships with the people we support, families, colleagues and external partners, while ensuring our services maintain high standards of quality, safeguarding and regulatory compliance.

The role offers the opportunity to work across a diverse geographical area, so a flexible approach to travel between services is essential.

We’re looking for someone who is approachable, organised and confident, with the leadership skills and experience to bring people together, embrace change and ensure our services continue to grow and develop.

If you’re ready to bring your leadership experience, energy and ideas to a role where you can make a genuine difference across a range of services and communities, we’d love to hear from you.

The Best in You Brings Out the Best in Me

Enable is a dynamic and vibrant social care organisation dedicated to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities and we are looking for a dynamic and motivated Service Manager to join us in ensuring they have the same opportunities as everyone else.

You must have the passion and drive to take a lead role in continuing to improve the quality of the services we provide to the people we support and to effectively lead and support local Team Facilitators to manage our frontline support staff.

This role is pivotal to the success of our mission and ambition to support people with a learning disability to lead the lives of their choosing; lives that are full, meaningful and inclusive. A successful Service Manager will lead their teams to develop and maintain good relationships and communications with the family and Social Care professionals involved in the lives of the people we support.

About You

• Significant experience of leading and managing Supported Living Services.
• Experience of managing teams with knowledge of culture change.
• A commitment to the inclusion of people with a learning disability.
• An in-depth understanding of the Self Directed Support Act and its principles.
• SVQ level 4 or the ability to work towards the relevant qualification required for your SSSC registration.

SVQ Health & Social Care Level 3 is essential

• A clear understanding of the need to build and sustain partnerships with stakeholders, commissioners and other third sector providers.
• The ability to lead our business strategy at a local level whilst promoting ENABLE Scotland with an emphasis on growing our business.
• Full driving licence with access to your own vehicle for business use.

About Us

At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities. These include, but are not limited to:

• Person Centred approaches, planning and thinking
• Introduction to autism
• Epilepsy awareness
• Moving and Handling
• Adult support and protection
• Child support and protection
• First Aid
• Positive Behaviour Support

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:

• Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Season Ticket Loans*
• Blue Light Card
• Where required, Enable will fully fund SVQ Health and Social Care qualifications – required for SSSC registration

Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.

Enable reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Please submit your application as early as possible if this vacancy is of interest.

Note: The successful applicant will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) within 3 months of their start date.

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