* Do you want to work for the UK's leading health & social care charity?
* Do you have experience in Complex care and you are looking for your next new opportunity to make a difference?
* Are you experienced in PBS support and looking to utilise your skills and experience?
* We are looking for an inspirational service leader looking to make a difference to lives of people we support.
More about the services?
* You will be leading a team of Advanced Support workers/Care assistants across 2 different services in the Liverpool area.
* Both services are complex care mental health and each lives 1 person.
More about the people supported and what they enjoy?
* Enjoy outdoor activities, including going for very long drives and walking.
* Other interests we have are listening to music.
* I am fun loving, kind, caring, considerate, respectful of other peoples personal space and belongings and have a love of music.
* Enjoy some quiet time.
Main duties of the job
* Managing a team of Advanced Support workers.
* Being an inspirational leader and providing coaching to your team.
* Carrying out supervisions and audits within the service.
* Review care plans ensuring Positive behaviour support is included.
* Manage recruitment and hold interviews with new staff.
* Carry out probation reviews, performance reviews.
* Safeguarding the people supporting ensure they are getting the best care possible.
* Liaising with a variety of healthcare professionals.
* Managing rotas and ensuring cover for all shifts.
About us
Community Integrated Care is one of the UK's largest health and social care charities. We work hard to enrich the lives of people with many different care needs. It's exciting and rewarding work, and we're full of pride and passion for what we do. Since the early days, we've grown to provide many innovative and bespoke care services to thousands of people across England and Scotland. We want to provide support based on the principles of choice, dignity, and respect. This resonates in our vision of Your Life, Your Choice and our strategy Best Lives Possible. We have strong values and we're proud to pioneer new ways of delivering social care to stand out in our sector. In the past two years, we have won or made the shortlist for over 100 national and regional awards! We are also focused on our people. Our Support Workers are dedicated and passionate about going the extra mile for the people we support and in return, we go the extra mile for them by investing in pay, recognition, wellbeing, and continued professional and personal development. We will provide you with all the training, support, and personal protective equipment you need in your role and will help you develop, should you decide you want to develop your career with us.
Job responsibilities
Main Purpose of the Role
Lead an engaged and motivated team to change lives, deliver person-centred outcomes for every person we support by driving performance, setting the pace and direction within services, promoting a positive and passionate culture, and ensuring that services are appropriately and effectively resourced to change lives for the better.
Key Accountabilities
* Actively promote their service and dare to be better by seeking out opportunities for growth and innovation through the development of thriving and life-changing partnerships in line with service or cluster strategic objectives.
* Take overall responsibility for and lead any clinical risk management, ensuring that all regulatory, professional standards, and legislation associated with social care is followed.
* Driving digital engagement by leading and supporting teams to engage with our charity's innovative and supportive systems and communications platforms, so that colleagues can own their learning and development, share best practice and access/record the data to do their very best work, in line with identified strategic objectives.
* Own and deliver the cascade of organisational communications in a motivated and passionate manner, so that important messages and changes are embedded successfully and teams feel engaged, informed, and part of a strong team with a great culture.
* Lead by example with passion in the development of complex care service models, working with the complex care team and other specialists to ensure the service meets the needs of those supported, and to contribute to a comprehensive and robust complex care offering across the organisation, in line with the organisation's strategic objectives.
* Manage the resources available to you creatively and appropriately to ensure efficient service delivery in line with contractual requirements and in line with operational budgets.
* Lead effectively by delivering against workforce KPIs, including sickness absence, You Cans!, training, induction, recruitment, and retention compliance figures.
* To proactively identify, escalate, and contribute to the management of potential risks. Lead and support a team in the management of risks in order to mitigate issues that could affect customer service or safety, or the effectiveness, quality, efficiency, and compliance of a person's activities, to ensure that the best interests of the people we support are always maintained.
* Design and regularly review service action, KPIs, and delivery plans in line with Quality Assurance procedures sharing outcomes with staff, to promote a passion for continuous improvement and reflective practice.
* Work towards team goals and strategic aims by implementing new approaches, processes, and projects, driving continuous improvement and working collaboratively to strive to be the best.
* To lead the design, management, and updating of care planning, engaging with multi-disciplinary teams and ensuring employees understand the importance of co-producing plans with the people we support.
* Embed a culture whereby the team feels empowered to promote independence, choice, dignity, and privacy at all times.
* Lead, develop, empower, and engage your team to do their very best work and create an environment and culture that promotes Community Integrated Care as a great place to work.
* Set expectations and manage, monitor, coach, and develop the team to ensure that they feel supported, meet the required standards, and continuously develop their capabilities and experience, both individually and as a team.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional qualification in Health and Social Care, i.e. qualified Nurse, Social Worker, Care and Management Level Five - Essential.
* Experience and knowledge in Positive Behaviour support.
* Experience of leading a team of support workers or Advanced support workers.
* Experience in complex mental health.
* Medication Level Three training and ability to undertake competency assessments for Support Workers (desirable).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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