Division / Function Operations Reports To: Area Manager Responsible For: Support Workers Job Purpose
Responsibilities
* To lead and direct a team in developing and delivering person centred service.
* Manage resources to successfully deliver service user and contract outcomes.
* To develop staff skills and knowledge in delivering high quality services that are designed and delivered to meet the needs of individuals.
* To apply the tools of person-centred planning, review, and team development.
* Embed a quality assurance framework at a service level.
Living our Values
* To ensure that staff develop positive relationships with service users, and they actively support individual outcomes.
* Work with the team to deliver what is important to the people they support and what they want for the future.
* To keep the people supported and those important to them central in the planning and review of their service.
* Demonstrating the principles of person-centred practices.
* Acting as a positive role model and coach to the team.
Principal Accountabilities
* To follow the principles of person-centred approaches in all areas of operation.
* To be responsible for assessment, planning, monitoring, and reviewing of individual support.
* To ensure appropriate information is captured, reported, and analysed.
* To lead and manage staff to ensure that the highest levels of performance and standards are achieved and maintained at all times.
* To ensure staff skills, gifts, qualities and strengths are put to best use.
* To manage the recruitment of staff
* To co-ordinate and deploy staff resources efficiently and effectively.
* To develop and maintain a customer focussed ethos at all times and to ensure excellent working relationships with other professionals.
* To ensure all staff receive appropriate levels of support through on-the-job coaching, regular supervisions and appraisals.
* To ensure staff training and development needs are identified and met.
* To organise and facilitate positive and productive team meetings.
* To promote and nurture good practice.
* To ensure practice in line with company policy, procedure and legislation.
* To ensure the service delivery meets the required quality standards.
* To promote community connections.
* To ensure that all internal and external reportable events are appropriately managed and resolved.
* To evidence quality service delivery.
* To assist the Area Manager in effect resource management.
Qualifications & Requirements
Please only apply if you meet the below requirements,
* NVQ3 qualification in management or care (or equivalent) or a willingness and ability to complete such a qualification within a set time period.
* Training in Person centred practices (planning, review, team development).
* Willingness to work flexible hours according to the needs of the business and ability to work on call.
* Willingness to work 7 days a week including unsocial hours and weekends.
* Willingness to work a 9-day fortnight or a 4.5 day week, supporting our employees with their work life balance.
With our extended flexible working options, you can also choose to work a 9-day fortnight or a 4.5 day week, supporting our employees with their work life balance.
Due to travel as part of the role, we require a driver for this position.
Key Experience
* Significant experience of person-centred planning and review.
* Significant experience of supporting people with learning disabilities and mental health needs.
* Significant experience of people management.
* Experience of leading and managing a staff team.
* Experience of undertaking staff supervisions and appraisal.
* Experience of partnership working.
* Experience of managing resources within agreed budget.
* Experience of using IT systems in the management of service and people.
Skills & Knowledge
* Knowledge of equality and anti-discriminatory practices.
* Excellent time manager who has the ability to plan and prioritise a complex workload.
* Ability to inspire and drive person centred principles and practices.
* Ability to assess, plan and monitor care and support to achieve individual outcomes.
* Ability to engage with service users and their families and carers, to develop positive and trusting relationships.
* Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal.
* Ability to demonstrate a significant knowledge and understanding of the needs of people with mental health or learning disabilities and be familiar with the current views and best practice.
* The ability to lead and manage a team.
* The ability to use person centred tools to develop individuals and teams.
* Ability to apply policy and procedure in a way that results in quality outcomes for people.
* Ability to demonstrate initiative, self-motivation, and resourcefulness.
* Effective resource management.
* Ability to use ICT for information, performance reporting and communication., Disability Confident
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