Priority Candidates will be considered in the first instance Heathside Residential Home Plank Lane Leigh WN7 4QE Salary: Grade 7, 31,586 - 35,235 per annum. 37 hours per week Your role: This is an exciting opportunity for you to join the team, As the service operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week you will be required to work on a rota basis which will include weekends, bank holidays, and unsociable hours. You will support the Registered Manager to provide effective leadership ensuring high quality service provision on a day-to-day basis through the direct line management of team members, in which you will care, engage and support and develop your team to be highly skilled, competent, consistent, and committed workforce. About you: You will be an excellent communicator with a high level of interpersonal skills in order to support staff to develop positive relationships with residents who have a diagnosis of dementia. You will be caring and display empathy towards residents adopting a person-centred approach in order to build relationships and gain trust that will support residents with their wishes and aspirations. You will lead by example and be creative to work differently and identify new ways of working to develop and improve the service. You will need a good sense of humour and be able to use your own initiative and work under pressure and be solution focused. About us: Wigan Council has been voted Overall Council of the Year at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations. The Progress with Unity plan is a place movement for change for the next decade, bringing a new era for Wigan Borough. It draws on the strengths of our individual organisations, recognising that together we can achieve much more for our communities by delivering on our 2 place missions; create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses and make our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them. We are a caring council and committed to supporting our residents who have dementia to live and age well and constantly strive to improve their health and wellbeing. The service provides support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week using an asset-based approach. We will provide you with full induction and ongoing training in order to meet our high standards and service needs. Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home, the office, or the community. We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for TeamWigan. Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process. To be appointed to this role you must be able to prove your right to work in the UK. Pease visit the link below to check you qualify to apply. Please note, at present we are not a licenced sponsor. Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Prove your right to work to an employer Please contact Natalie Jones Registered Manager on 01942404496 or the Shift Leader on 01942602328 Interview dates: Priority candidates: 13/12/24 All other candidates: 17/12/24 This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Procedure plus adult barred list check The employer is committed to safeguarding To view the details relating to this position, please click the links below: