Job summary
Joining Woodcot Lodge, The Clarence Unit, as a Registered Manager, youll use your compassion and leadership experience to make a real difference to peoples lives, whilst advancing your career with Hampshires largest care provider.
About Woodcot Lodge, The Clarence Unit:
1. Rated GOOD by CQC, 80 bedded homecombining short stay services with permanent nursing residency. Skilled, caring, and friendly teams include nurses, social workers, occupational therapists and care staff.
2. Short-term services:Support for individuals admitted from acute trust and community for reassessment and reablement over a 28-day stay. Help people regain confidence and strength, relearn skills or find new ways of doing everyday activities.
3. Permanent long stay:16 nursing beds for long-term care.
4. Fast-paced environment: Multiple admissions and discharges facilitated daily.
Main duties of the job
What you'll be doing:
5. Ensuring the success and ongoing development of our home, with the support of your line manager, deputy managers and your fantastic team.
6. Compliance and quality assurance: Ensuring our home meets all regulatory requirements, maintaining high standards of service.
7. Financial management: Budget and occupancy responsibility.
8. Resident care and support: Overseeing the delivery of the highest quality person-centred care to the satisfaction of our residents.
9. Staff supervision and development: Driving team engagement and personal growth and development.
10. Community engagement: Building relationships with residents families and the wider community.
What were looking for:
11. A passionate, experienced Deputy Manager or Registered Manager.
12. An inspirational leader who puts the needs of residents at the heart of their service.
13. A role model for our values, inspiring your team to embody them too.
14. A proven track record of successful change management and continuous improvement.
15. The ability to demonstrate effective leadership and management, strengthening our place in the Hampshire care market as a trusted provider.
About us
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this role you'll be responsible for:
16. Ensuring service delivery is aligned to County Council, directorate and government strategies.
17. Overseeing the delivery of the highest quality person-centred care to the satisfaction of our residents.
18. Managing resources and finances to provide effective and efficient services based on assessed residents' needs and budget and occupancy requirements.
19. Ensuring the appropriate mix of competence, skills and adequately staffed teams are always maintained.
20. Providing inspiring leadership to motivate and give staff a clear vision, to ensure they're working towards agreed targets, promoting a culture of evidence based practice.
21. Ensuring clinical nursing standards are assessed and being met.
22. Developing a culture of continuous improvement through regular care monitoring and quality assurance, ensuring appropriate training programmes are in place to support Practice Development.
23. Delivering statutory services in accordance with national minimum standards, effective practice, frameworks to promote excellent practice and directorate guidelines.
24. Developing teams and individuals through supervision and performance planning, to ensure a competent, confident workforce that meets statutory requirements and performance targets.
25. Identifying, developing and implementing training strategies for specialist areas of expertise and practice development, with Workforce Development support.
26. Building partnerships with other organisations, agencies and directorates to benefit residents and reflect delivery of strategic service objectives and priorities.
27. Consulting and liaising with staff, residents, carers, the NHS, agencies and other professionals to determine and meet service needs.
28. Developing and implementing new initiatives for personalisation and well-being agenda to assist communities to provide appropriate services for vulnerable adults.
29. Communicating clearly across levels ensuring that national, corporate and directorate objectives align with local plans, and staff understand the directorates key priorities and their role in the delivery of these objectives.
30. Networking with managers across the directorate, Council and partners.
31. Ensuring compliance with external statutory bodies ( CQC, Environmental Health, NHS) and that all relevant legal requirements are met. Specific responsibility for ensuring social care provision is in accordance with CQC and HCC policies and standards. This will require regular reviews and audit trails to ensure that clinical and non-clinical practice is evaluated and meets the required standard.
32. Contributing to the compliance/quality agenda in all HCC nursing and residential homes, through the provision of leadership and support.
33. Ensuring staff understand corporate and departmental equalities and Health and Safety policies and procedures through training and guidance.
Safeguarding
34. All employees will be required to adhere to internal safeguarding policies, procedures and guidance, taking action and raising concerns as appropriate. Where a professional code of conduct applies to the role, this must also be adhered to.
35. All employees will be required to have an understanding and awareness of the specific responsibilities placed on individuals who care for vulnerable adults.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
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Desirable
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Qualifications
Essential
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Desirable
39. Please see link to Candidate Pack
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
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Desirable
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