Position: Deputy Manager (Residential)
Location: The Grove - Sutton - Surrey
Salary: £19,578.00 + Benefits
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - full time
Benefits: DBS and training paid for; Occupational sick leave; Auto-Enrolment pension scheme, Various E-Learning courses, specific to your individual role, Long service recognition awards
To join the team at The Grove, a learning disability service in Sutton, supporting people: with learning disabilities, autism, diabetes, mental health needs and challenging behaviours
Your duties will include supporting the Home Manager, and deputising in their absence, to undertake all aspects of managing the home, ensuring that high standards of care and support are maintained and adhering to all requirements and regulations (e.g. CQC).
You will also assist in developing staff rotas and managing the staff team.
An appropriate balance is needed between management and ‘hands-on’ work, meeting the needs of the service users living in the home
The people we support are at the heart of everything we do - they are wonderful individuals and deserve to be treated with respect, dignity and choice. Our main priority, therefore, is to find staff with values, behaviours and attitudes to match our own.
You will have considerable experience working with people with learning disabilities, at a minimum of lead/senior support worker level.
You must be well organised, able to lead shifts, motivate teams and manage rotas.
We are a leading provider of care and support for adults with learning disabilities and associated complex needs, including autistic spectrum conditions, mental health needs, challenging behaviour, profound and multiple learning disabilities and epilepsy.
The people we support live in homely, family-like residences, and are encouraged to participate fully in the local community.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all the people we support and expect all staff to share this commitment.
In addition to your salary, our benefits package includes:
a pension scheme
paid annual leave
reward/recognition schemes
a generous staff discount and benefits scheme
We also have excellent opportunities for career progression.