Job description
Team Manager (Learning Disabilities) - Required for Dynamic and Progressive Organisation
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Office day on Mondays
- No sleeps
The successful candidate will:
- Be a confident and driven leader with a positive, proactive, and solution-focused approach.
- Lead by example, inspiring and supporting teams to deliver high-quality care and achieve positive outcomes.
- Demonstrate a genuine passion for social care, independence, and improving the lives of the people we support.
- Have experience supporting individuals with autism, complex needs, and behaviours that challenge.
- Be committed to promoting dignity, choice, inclusion, and person-centred practice.
- Possess excellent communication, interpersonal, and listening skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with staff, supported individuals, families, and professionals.
- Utilise a collaborative leadership style, coaching and developing team members to reach their full potential.
- Be confident in managing staff performance, supervision, appraisals, training, and professional development.
- Demonstrate strong organisational skills, sound judgement, and the ability to effectively manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Be an effective decision-maker with a focus on quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.
- Hold a Level 3 NVQ/QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care (or equivalent), with substantial experience in a leadership or management role within adult social care.
- Have a minimum of two years' experience managing services supporting people with learning disabilities, autism, complex needs, and behaviours that challenge.
- Hold a full UK manual driving licence.
Expectations for the job role
- Remain up to date with current legislation, thinking and theory in relation to professional conduct and practice, and ensure that support workers in the service are familiar with these.
- To ensure that services for all Supported Persons reflect a person centred approach and that each Supported Person has a Person Centred Plan (PCP) and to ensure that each service provides opportunities for Supported Person’s to exercise determination and choice and participate in the life of a wider community
- To support the assessment, planning, co-ordination and implementation of the delivery of services to Supported Persons, ensuring that their personal, physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs are met. Ensuring that all schedules, routines, appointments implemented for Supported People are evaluated and amended as deemed necessary. To ensure there is a range of leisure and development activities provided for all Supported Person’s, regardless of physical or cognitive impairment or exhibition of challenging behaviour
- Together with the Area Manager ensure that each service is maintained in good repair, and liaise with appropriate personnel who have responsibility for carrying out such work.
- To be fully involved alongside the Positive Behaviour Support Team to design, implement and evaluate Positive Behaviour Support Plans and Risk Assessment and Management Plans (RAMPS) for each Supported Person, including transition documentation, which requires regular review.
- To ensure that all Supported Persons have periodic health appointments (e.g. dentistry, chiropody, optician, psychiatry, psychology, GP, etc.) add too HAP- Food, diet, hydration, annual health review. Staff survey on food in service- monitoring systems in place. Person centred, religion, dietary, financial needs incorporated.
People Management
- Maintain rotas and ensure rotas are completed satisfactorily to comply with Commissioning Council’s contractual agreements and that any changes due to sickness or absence are recorded and overtime is kept to the necessary minimum.
- To Support the Area Manager in ensuring that all staff vacancies are filled satisfactorily in line with policies and procedures, as well as national and local legislation. Provide support to head office with interviewing / trial shifts and to have regular communication with the recruitment manager, regarding staffing levels or any amendments and changes pending to the staff teams they are responsible for.
- Work with the Area Manager to ensure new staff complete initial mandatory eLearning within 2 weeks of start and all new staff complete care certificate in timely manner.
- To ensure that all staff adhere to their job description and that any failings by staff in work practice are immediately challenged and rectified. When requested, to take a supporting role in the disciplinary/grievance process for any staff member, supported by the Area Manager, Registered Manager and the HR Manager and Directors, to ensure that any disciplinary/grievance action is carried out as described in the relevant policies and procedures.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £35,500.00-£38,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
Experience:
- social care: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work Location: In person
