What makes Community Integrated Care a great place to work: Community Integrated Care is one of the largest health and social care charities in the UK. We work hard to enrich the lives of the people we support with many different care needs. It’s exciting and rewarding work, and we’re full of pride and passion for what we do. Are you a dedicated and compassionate health and social care professional, seeking a Service Leader role based in Hayling Island? Do you have a wealth of experience, along with the passion to make a real difference? How would you like to lead a large team of experienced support workers, to deliver the best lives possible for the people we support? What about working for an award winning charity that invests all its profits right back into the people we support, our workforce and our local communities? We also offer the following Benefits:
1. Flexible Working Hours & Shift patterns
2. 25 days paid annual leave plus Bank Holidays
3. Managed by supportive senior leaders
4. Pension Scheme
5. No uniform - wear your own clothes!
6. We will pay for your DBS
7. Shopping Discounts Scheme - Free Blue Light Card
8. Ongoing continued professional development and progression opportunities
9. Recommend a Friend Bonus scheme
10. Financial Hardship Fund
11. Investment in your wellbeing
Since the early days, we’ve grown to provide many innovative and bespoke support services to thousands of people across England and Scotland. We want to provide support based on the principles of choice, dignity and respect. This resonates in our vision of ‘Your Life, Your Choice’ and our strategy ‘Best Lives Possible’.
We have strong values and we’re proud to pioneer new ways of delivering social care to stand out in our sector. In the past two years, we have won or made the shortlist for over national and regional awards! Who you’ll be supporting & more about the role: This is a great opportunity to manage 2 services (which are going through the deregistration process) for adults with Autism and Learning Disabilities on Hayling Island. Making a genuine difference, where you will be responsible for leading an engaged and motivated team to change lives and deliver person-centred outcomes for every person we support. You will also take the lead by driving performance, setting the pace and direction within services, promoting a positive and passionate culture, and ensuring that services are appropriately and effectively resourced to change lives for the better.
The role will involve managing both services with a total of up to 10 individuals receiving in the region of hours of support between them. Due to the needs of the people supported across these services, knowledge and experience of working with people with Learning disabilities, Autism and complex health needs is essential for this role. You will also have experience working with people supported who present behaviours that require intensive support planning and management to ensure their safety and quality of life at all times.
A key element of this opportunity will include the creation and development of care and aspirational support plans to assist people to develop independence and achieve individual outcomes. Prior experience of this will be essential in this role.
As a skilled manager and leader you will be responsible for the overall supervision, quality assurance, monitoring, regulatory requirements and day to day management of staff. The responsibilities for this role are centred on the delivery, quality, financial stability and the on-going development of the services.
The successful candidate will be responsible and accountable for the 24-hour management of the services ensuring that all aspects of support and service delivery are person centred, staff are valued and we achieve the best possible outcomes in all aspects of service delivery. ((will also entail working on an on call rota).
You will also be committed to person centred planning and positive risk taking with a real passion for improvement and continuous development.
It is essential you are a driver with a full UK license.
In addition you will be comfortable using basic IT systems that are required within the role - training can be offered to support this area. You will also hold a professional qualification in Health and Social Care, i.e. Nurse, Social Worker, SVQ Level 3 plus supervisory units (Scotland) / Care Management Level 3 (England) or higher.
Your values: With experience working in a health or social care setting, you will have an upbeat positive manner, as well as having a genuine passion for supporting people to become a part of their local and wider community. Naturally it is important that you share our company values - We Include; We Deliver; We Aspire; We Respect; We Enable, which are at the heart of everything we do and ensure that we deliver high quality, consistent care and support. People's values are important to use, so we look for people with: - Patience
- Empathy, compassion and sensitivity to others
- A strong work ethic
- Reliability
- Honesty
- Determination- Problem solving skills
- Resilience