Best Practice Facilitator - Drive Quality & Make a Difference! (National Role)
Part-time 28 hours per week
MacIntyre is a leading social care charity dedicated to supporting people with learning disabilities and autism to live a life that makes sense to them. We're seeking a passionate and dedicated Best Practice Facilitator to join our national Best Practice team and champion excellence across our services. While this role is advertised from our Milton Keynes head office, it offers the potential to be based in alternative MacIntyre locations around the country.
About the Role:
As a Best Practice Facilitator, you will play a vital role in driving continuous improvement and ensuring the highest quality of support for the people we support. This role will involve:
* Training & Development: Delivering engaging and effective training programs to staff on best practices.
* Resource Creation: Developing and sharing high-quality resources and guidance documents.
* Implementation & Monitoring: Checking best practice in action and coaching teams to improve their practices.
* Collaboration & Support: Working alongside people who draw on our support who are a crucial part of the team in both paid or voluntary roles.
* Service Improvement: Contributing to the development of best practice review tools and supporting services to identify opportunities for improvement.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Working professionally with people who draw on our support, families, staff and external colleagues.
* Internal Collaboration: Participating in relevant work groups, MacIntyre Connect calls, and Network Groups (e.g., Autism, Relationships, Employment ).
About You:
You are a compassionate and driven individual with a genuine commitment to improving the lives of people with learning disabilities and autism. You possess:
* Essential experience in social care and/or working with people with learning disabilities and autism, or transferable knowledge and skills.
* A strong belief in and demonstrable alignment with MacIntyre's strategy, Approach, Purpose, DNA, and Values.
* Openness, honesty, trustworthiness, and reliability.
* Flexibility and willingness to travel to different locations (a current manual UK Driving Licence is required).
* Strong IT skills to access emails, e-learning platforms, virtual training, MacIntyre systems, and create resources.
* The ability to connect with and draw upon evidence-based, external best practice.
* A proactive and collaborative approach.
* You must be a driver with your own transport, as you will travel regularly between services in the area, as well as to meetings, conferences and training.
What We Offer:
* The opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of people we support.
* Comprehensive training and support for your professional development.
* A supportive and collaborative work environment within a dedicated Best Practice team.
About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.
We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.
Pay and Rewards
We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:
* Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
* Workplace Pension scheme MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
* MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
* Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
* Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
* MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
* Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
* MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
* MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
* Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
* Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)
How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details including a supporting statement, and upload your CV.
We will get back to you whether or not you have been shortlisted for this role.
Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement
MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.
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COVID-19 Information
We are committed to maintaining a COVID-19 secure workplace and to supporting a rigorous approach to protecting the health and safety of candidates, our employees and the people we support. MacIntyre's policy for this role requires you to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (or exempt). This means having Vaccinations 1 and 2. You can join us if you have had at least one vaccination, and have your second vaccination eight weeks after the first.