Registered Care Manager
Location: Handsworth Wood, Birmingham
15-Bedded Residential Service
CareTech is a person-centred care company that provides quality care to children and adults. We enable children, young people, and adults with complex needs to make their own life choices and to develop confidence and independence to live, learn, thrive, and engage, building a better future.
We refer to this as Extraordinary Days, Every Day.
We have a new opening for an experienced registered care manager to oversee our adult residential service. Within these services, we support individuals requiring various levels of support around learning difficulties, mental health, and other diagnoses. We provide individuals with practical and emotional support, enabling them to lead fulfilled lives, gain independence, and achieve positive outcomes. Proven experience in a similar environment and role is required.
Main duties and responsibilities:
1. Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the home, ensuring resources are used effectively to provide quality care.
2. Ensure staff receive regular supervision in accordance with CareTech’s policies.
3. Collaborate with the Service Development Team on resident assessments, selection, and transition processes.
4. Develop and review dynamic support plans for all service users, involving them as much as possible.
5. Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and use National Minimum Standards as benchmarks for good practice.
6. Create a safe environment that promotes personal development, considering practical, physical, and emotional needs.
7. Lead risk assessments and implement plans to minimize risks.
8. Maintain health and safety standards, and support contract monitoring by providing reports and management information.
9. Liaise professionally with external agencies.
10. Support recruitment, staffing strategies, and other managerial tasks in collaboration with the Personnel Department.
11. Participate in budget formulation and expenditure monitoring.
12. Maintain proper records and administrative systems as per policies and statutory requirements.
13. Manage petty cash and valuables of service users responsibly.
14. Participate in on-call management as required.
15. Ensure health & safety compliance and communicate maintenance needs effectively.
16. Maintain good communication within the home and with external contacts.
17. Support disciplinary and grievance procedures, including investigations and hearings if necessary.
18. Ensure staff awareness and adherence to company policies and procedures, contributing to reviews and revisions.
19. Perform other managerial duties as required.
Experience & Qualifications:
* Management experience is essential
* Strong commitment to safeguarding standards
* Experience working with CQC
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