Support Manager (Learning Disabilities / Adult Care)
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Affinity Trust
Salary: £32,382 per year
Support Manager (Learning Disabilities / Adult Care)
Position: Support Manager
Location: Clacton, Essex
Contract type: Full-time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £32,382per annum
Benefits: Benefits include salary enhancements for on-call duties, a contributory pension scheme, childcare vouchers, excellent training and development opportunities and 28 days annual leave including bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff).
About Affinity Trust:
Are you looking for an exciting new role where you can really make a difference?
Affinity Trust is a national charity dedicated to providing high-quality, personalised support to adults with learning disabilities. Their reputation is built upon their experience, their values and their commitment to support people to live independently and achieve their goals.
They are looking to recruit a Support Manager to manage a new supported living service in Clacton for 4 people with complex needs.
About the role:
You will be responsible for managing this new service and managing and motivating your team to deliver high quality services in accordance with legislation, regulatory standards and contractual requirements and ensure that the needs and aspirations of people supported are being met.
Their values are important to us. You will share their passion and commitment to always think about how they can do things better, putting the needs and well-being of the people supported first and finding ways to enrich their lives and enabling them to live as independently as possible.
This is an exciting role in a new service, supporting four adults who are moving into their own tenancies for the first time.
The role will include settling the people they support and their staff team into their new homes and developing support which provides positive outcomes and fulfilling lives.
The four tenants will have complex needs including learning disabilities, autism, mental ill-health and behaviours which may challenge. You will need to be confident and skilled in supporting people with these needs and in supporting and developing a brand new staff team to provide a high quality service.
About you:
may currently be working as a Team Leader or a Support Manager of a small service and are looking for that next challenge and opportunity.
You will be accustomed to multi–tasking and have a proven track record of developing team members and experience of delivering and managing high quality supported living services for people with learning disabilities.
You will be confident and confident in working with people who have complex needs and whose behaviours may challenge and in supporting your staff team with the challenges this brings. It is important that you can provide consistent support and be equally positive and resilient, sticking with the people you support on the many good days and some bad days they will experience.
Underpinning all of the above will be your knowledge of the sector, and a QCF level 5 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent (or a willingness to work towards it).
They value people:
This is an excellent opportunity to join a company where you can be valued and can grow your skills and career.
They offer excellent support, including regular 1-1 meetings, team meetings, debriefs and ongoing support from your manager.
You may have experience of the following: Support Worker, Care Worker, Care Staff, Personal Assistant, Care Assistant, Support staff, Social Care Worker jobs, Community Care Worker, Residential Care Worker, NHS Support Worker, Senior Support Worker, Senior Care Worker, Senior Support Assistant, Healthcare Assistant, Voluntary Sector, Learning disability Services, Community Services, Community development, Challenging behaviour, Autism.
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check which will be provided by Affinity Trust.
Affinity Trust are an equal opportunities employer that promotes diversity within their workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of sexual orientation, race, age, gender, disability, religion or belief.
This vacancy is being advertised by Easy Web Recruitment, the UK`s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by Easy Web Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.
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