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Job Description: Mental Health Care Home Manager
40 hours / Salary £28,560 Plus £2,750 Car allowance
Do you dare to make a difference?
We know working in care is more than ‘just a job’. To us, it’s playing a crucial role in enabling the people we support to live their best lives, and working in care is a very rewarding career path.
Unlock your potential by joining our team as a Care Home Manager at our Caewern Lodge service in Neath.
You can expect:
1. Accelerated career paths
2. Recognised qualifications with paid training
3. Flexible working patterns
4. Inclusive culture with progressive wellbeing support
Integra Community Living Options (part of National Care Group) supports individuals (18+) with complex and enduring mental health needs in South and West Wales. We have over 18 years of knowledge and expertise behind us and an excellent record of helping individuals move on to independent living.
Managers provide a vital role in ensuring we provide the people we support with the care and ability to improve their quality of life, whilst also supporting and developing our staff teams and ensuring we maintain high levels of compliance with regulators and internal auditing systems.
Our Caewern Lodge Service is a 6 bed service supporting male individuals with a primary mental health diagnosis.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable but not essential.
As a Manager, some of your responsibilities will include:
1. Coordinating the support for each individual to achieve their agreed placement aims and goals and reporting on progress made against agreed actions on a regular basis internally and externally.
2. Ensuring that the individuals we support are consulted on and participate in all aspects of life within the home.
3. Effectively managing the staff team to ensure they clearly understand their roles and duties on shift, their delegated responsibility (if relevant), and following up to ensure these duties are occurring effectively and/or providing support as necessary.
4. Assisting the staff team to maximise their personal growth through training, coaching, feedback, the use of a competency framework, and on-the-job experience.
5. Leading and managing continuous improvement within the home through reviewing the quality of care and service within the home and delivering agreed priorities and improvements.
6. Working proactively in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams for positive outcomes for the individuals we support.
7. Working in accordance with company values, policies and procedures, legislation, and national minimum standards.
8. Being part of the managers on-call rota.
9. Meeting agreed individual annual objectives.
The Ideal Candidate
1. Have a minimum of a Level 5 NVQ/QCF in Health and Social Care (management).
2. Driver – desirable.
3. Experience working in mental health services.
4. Experience of leading and supervising a team.
5. Experience of auditing and quality monitoring.
6. Understanding of Welsh Regulations.
7. Computer skills.
8. Registered with Social Care Wales.
In addition to the salary, we will also offer you:
1. Paid DBS checks.
2. Paid Social Care Wales Registration Fees.
3. Access to high street discounts through Digital Perks.
4. Wellbeing support via our Employee Assistance Programme.
5. Long service awards.
6. Auto-enrolment on the company pension scheme.
7. Car Allowance.
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