Service Manager, Moray

Enable; Elgin; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Enable Scotland is seeking a dynamic Service Manager for Moray Services based in Elgin and surrounding area (Forres, Keith, Buckie). You will lead a team of Team Facilitators and PAs to provide bespoke, human rights based, person-centred care in line with the Enable PA model.

The Best in You Brings Out the Best in Me. This role supports people with learning disabilities and requires driving to build partnerships with families, social care professionals and local stakeholders to promote ENABLE

Qualifications

• Significant experience of leading and managing Supported Living Services.
• Experience managing teams with knowledge of culture change.
• Commitment to inclusion of people with a learning disability.
• Understanding of the Self Directed Support Act and its principles.
• SVQ Level 4 or ability to work towards the relevant qualification for SSSC registration.
• SVQ Health & Social Care Level 3 is essential.
• Ability to build and sustain partnerships with stakeholders, commissioners and other third sector providers.
• Ability to lead local business strategy while promoting ENABLE Scotland.
• Full driving licence with access to your own vehicle for business use.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Team Facilitators and PAs to provide bespoke, human rights based, person centred care.
• Manage frontline staff and drive service quality improvements.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with families, social care professionals and other stakeholders.
• Lead local business strategy and promote ENABLE Scotland with emphasis on growing the service.

Skills

Leadership experience

People management

Culture change

Inclusion focus

Stakeholder liaison

Partnership development

Driving licence

Education

SVQ Level 3 (HSCC)

SVQ Level 4 or working toward SSSC

Job description

Moray Services

35 hours per week

Our Moray services are based in Elgin and the surrounding area (Forres, Keith, Buckie).

You will lead a team of Team Facilitators and PAs to provide bespoke, human rights based, person centred care in line with the Enable PA model.

The support needs of the people who use the service are diverse and support ranges from a few hours a week on key days to full 24 hour support. The ideal candidate will have broad experience of supporting people along side a willingness to learn and acquire new skills and experiences.

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.

Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate the following:

• 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.