Creative Support is looking for a caring, dynamic and highly motivated person to manage our varied portfolio of social care services in Blackpool. You will be responsible for maintaining an overview of all services, leading a highly motivated team of managers and contributing to the further development of services within the region. You must be an accomplished manager and have extensive experience and knowledge of working within the social care sector in support of people with learning disabilities and mental health needs.
You will be responsible for our current service provision in the area, which includes:
1. Supported living services for people with a learning disability and people on the autistic spectrum, including people who have additional complex care and communication needs
2. Community support for people with a learning disability/mental health needs
We are also keen to develop new services which meet local needs and promote opportunity, choice, health and wellbeing.
You will carry out the role demonstrating a person-centred approach with a warm, confident and professional manner. Experience of staff and service management is essential. We will expect you to have the vision, networking and organisational ability to deliver excellent outcome’s for customers and to implement initiatives which connect service users to their local community and promote our reputation. A requirement of this role is that you will be the Registered Manager with CQC. Prior experience as a Registered Manager is not essential but you must be a confident and accountable practitioner with the ability to put quality standards into practice.
You must have skills in positive communication and engagement and will be able to demonstrate unconditional positive regard for the people we support. You must be able to write clear assessments, support plans and guidelines and work positively within a consistent, mutually supportive team ethos.
You must be able to lead a team with confidence and provide clear guidance, supervision and support to your team members. You will be able to communicate positively and professionally with the families of the people we support, their advocates and other agencies.
You will be based in our friendly, well equipped office in Blackpool and will be expected to have regular direct contact with service users and attend person-centred reviews. You will be required to oversee staff deployment and rotas and to work in a flexible manner yourself including working evenings and weekends.
This role offers unique and challenging opportunities bringing great job satisfaction and career development opportunities. We provide relevant training including accredited management training and health and social care diplomas through our own training academy. We may support you with advanced practitioner training opportunities in relevant areas. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture .
If you wish to know more about the post, please call Neil Maguire Area Manager on 07870679389, he will be happy to discuss the role and responsibilities with you.
Vacancy Reference Number: 79076
Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number
Full training is provided, as is the opportunity to work towards QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care. Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 33 days Annual Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.
We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization – Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold awarded.
We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK. – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme