Job Summary
We are seeking a dedicated and proactive Deputy Manager to support the effective operation of our organisation. The ideal candidate will play a vital role in assisting the management team, ensuring smooth daily activities, and maintaining high standards of service delivery. This position offers an excellent opportunity for individuals with leadership potential and a passion for teaching and mentoring others. The Deputy Manager will be responsible for overseeing various organisational functions, fostering team collaboration, and contributing to strategic planning to achieve organisational goals.
As deputy manager you will be required to
- Work closely with Healthrites Care Solutions management team and the General Manager to lead and develop, the nursing and care team.
- Ensure clients are at the heart of care delivery and their wishes and preferences are listened to and followed to enhance their wellbeing.
- Ensure the efficient and effective day-to-day management of staff involved in providing care through the home and ensuring that the required standards are maintained.
- Utilise your skills to provide consistently high-quality care for clients and staff.
- Comply with Statutory and Regulatory requirements.
- Ensuring Healthrites’s corporate standards, policies, procedures, and technology systems are adhered to.
- Represent the General Manager when they are out of office.
- Support the Office Out of Hours on occassion.
- Assess care packages, agree start dates with client and social work team, triparty agreement with correct charges and hours on it.
- Interview candidates to assess their qualifications and fit with company culture.
- Coach and mentor new care staff.
- Supervise a team of care staff.
- Coordinate staff rotas.
- Audit work done in the Office especially trackers, interview notes, minutes of meetings etc.
- Organise and conduct care reviews.
- Organise and conduct staff supervisions.
- Organise and conduct staff appraisals.
- Attend reviews for new and existing clients.
- Be on-call on a rotational basis.
- Liaise with multidisciplinary team e.g. OT, social workers, GP to make request, for reviews, visits to ensure continuity of care for all our clients
- Support the manager in disciplinary procedure.
- Organise and conducting regular spot checks on care staff to maintain high standard of care and ensure infection control procedure are strictly adhered to and action plan the shortfalls identified.
- Build Relationships with care staff and clients
· Ensuring that our high standards of care are maintained by
- Delivering high quality care as part of the care team using a person-centred approach
- Ensuring the individual needs of service users are met, providing opportunities for individuals to use their skills and enhance their quality of life, whilst maintaining their independence and privacy
- Actively assisting, maintaining & promoting Healthrites’s Core values (I. Kindness and Compassion, II. Respect, III. Highest Quality Care, IV. Reliability & Punctuality, V. Go Extra, VI. Embrace Cultural Difference)
- Ensuring staff rostering is a rolling shift pattern, including alternate weekends off, applying a flexible attitude to all staff working hours especially regarding covering absence & holidays, including bank holidays, evenings & weekends.
- Displaying a caring, sensitive & approachable nature.
- Displaying compassion, patience & empathy in all tasks whilst being organised & reliable in approach to work.
- To Review, improve existing Healthrites’s quality systems and Procedure.
- Act as Lead for Healthrite’s Quality team in line with the Care Inspectorate Scotland and in the management of the Aberdeenshire Frameworks Scotland. This job description is not definitive and may be subject to future amendments following negotiation and consultation.
Pay: £28,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
