Deputy Manager – Community Support Services

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Deputy Manager to work within the Community Support Services Team to work full time based in Billericay, Essex.

The salary for this permanent Deputy Manager job is up to £26,411 per annum.

Main duties:

• To work with service users, their families, representatives, and other professionals in developing and delivering person centred, support packages for children, young people, and adults with learning disabilities & people with complex needs. To ensure all new service users are provided with a thorough assessment and a comprehensive care plan is in place prior to staring, ensuring specific training requirments for staff can be met.
• To monitor the quality and effectiveness of the activity programmes in each division. Reporting to the manager areas of success and areas where improvement is required. Providing solutions and driving innovation, ensuring each division moves in line with latest guidance and legislation.
• To ensure medication administration requirments and specialist health care tasks are identified, assessed, and administered following current legislation. This includes regulations and guidelines for storage and dispensing, Protocols and procedures are written by health professionals and followed by all staff members, Staff are provided with appropriate training and a competency observation before carrying out these tasks.
• To regularly consider training needs of service users in conjunction with the training team through relevant accredited learning streams in discussion with the division leaders.
• To ensure that appropriate support services are in place for those service users with complex physical health needs in liaison with relevant health care professionals. That all guidance for staff is current and accurate.
• To provide continual support and supervision to the allocated staff members, to ensure that agreed strategies and standards are always maintained within the service and that the team are clear of the expectations placed upon them by both the service users and the organisation.
• To ensure that all new staff employed within the services complete a thorough induction programme and complete the care certificate workbook prior to the end of their probationary period.
• To provide opportunities for service users to come into contact with and build social networks with others living in their own communities. To network with local community organisations and groups to promote the links that can be of benefit to service users.
• To work flexibly as required and agreed by post holder and manager and as far as is reasonably practicable within the postholder’s responsibilities.

Requirements of this Deputy Manager job:

• A social Work Qualification or equivalent.
• Understanding of relevant legislation.
• Continual professional development.
• Social Work England registered.

Contact:
This Deputy Manager job is advertised by Stefan Garrett; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.