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Deputy Manager

Job details
Posting date: 10 April 2024
Salary: £36,066.23 to £42,217.06 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 10 May 2024
Location: Lincoln, Midlands, LN6 9LU
Company: Kisimul Group
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 52548674

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Summary

About The Role
DEPUTY MANAGER

Swinderby Site: Church View

Benefits

- Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades
- Blue Light card which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
- Care Friends – earn additional money just by sharing our job adverts with your friends
- WageStream, a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses
- Unlimited access to Health Assured for yourself and partner, for support with physical & mental health, legal advice and a whole host of other tools
- Life Assurance
- Flexible and fixed working patterns

At Kisimul we know caring is not just a skill, it's much more, it's a gift, your personal gift that you willingly give and share with others. Know what we mean? Then we’re on the look-out for amazing carers like you.
Kisimul provide exceptional services for children with autism, learning disabilities and complex needs, through our registered schools, college and care homes in Lincolnshire.
Apply to be a Support Worker and join our amazing team at our Church View today, we’ll encourage you to:
Be Yourself - bringing 100% of you to work everyday.
We’ll Grow Together – developing professional skills, pay and qualifications.
Supporting you to Think Forward - to create an exciting and rewarding career for your future.
About the Role.
As a Support Worker/ Life Practitioner you’ll be an integral part of the team, teaching young people life skills in context and support them to integrate these skills. We’ll give you all the training you’ll need. You’ll contribute to and promote the development of young peoples’ communication, self-help, and independence skills - undertaking actions devised by other specialist colleagues, such as speech therapists and educational psychologists and providing feedback on sessions. Plus, support individuals with maintaining and improving their health and supporting emotional needs, always promoting increased independence. Support Workers participate in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational activities such as trips to the Safari Park, fun fairs or local restaurants.
Our new care model is ground breaking.
Meaningful life is our innovative new model – an industry first. Providing care and education to people we support is at the centre of all our decision making, with the ambition to enable them to fulfil their most meaningful life. We bring all our specialist teams together from education, therapies and care and put the people we support right in the centre of our family of experts to deliver a meaningful life.
About You.
If you have a background in care work, great, we’ll work with you to develop you to where you want to get to, however, you don’t need a background in care to become a Support Worker, just a caring approach and passion for helping others.
We have fixed rota patterns, as well as flexibility to suit your home life.
Days - 43.5hrs per week. 7.30am and finishing at 8.30pm (1 hour break).
The rota pattern is typically a 2-week rota. Week 1 works Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat and Sun. Week 2 works, Wed and Thu.
Choose your career pathways and we’ll help build your skills to get you there.
Pay progression recognising your professional development and career progression.

As a Deputy Manager, you will be key in helping your team to support young people with complex needs. This is a challenging role, but the rewards are incomparable to any other job. You will be working in an environment where the little things that you do every day could have life-changing results. Your ambition for the young people you support will help them take steps to fulfilling their potential.

About the job:
This post involves responsibility for the establishment in the absence of the Registered Manager of the service as well as supporting the Registered Manager in the day to day running of the service, Ensuring that the regulatory requirements are met through the Statement of Purpose and that this statement meets regulatory requirements and is implemented, evaluated and reviewed within the appropriate timescales.
The Deputy Manager will be part of the Senior Management Team with a lead responsibility for management, support and direction of the service.


What are the responsibilities?

- To ensure that good quality working relationships are built and maintained between residents and staff at all levels and that withdrawal from these
- To provide leadership, guidance and management, communicating a clear sense of direction which staff understand and are able to relate to in the aims and purposes of the service and the organisation.
- Work with the Registered Manager to ensure that appropriately qualified and experienced staff are recruited in accordance with Company policy and Quality standards.
- To ensure that all staff for whom you are responsible are putting policy into practice and are either performing to expected standards or, that you are/have been actively addressing the issues effectively with clear audit trails.
- To maintain high standards of care and to gear the running of the service so that it is focused but sufficiently flexible to meet the expressed needs of the individual resident as necessary. This will include participating in and undertaking regular audits and reviews of the quality systems as necessary.
- To create and develop links between the home and the local community, so that young people can play a full and appropriate part in the life of the community.
- To be responsible for the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of individuals’ care, life-long learning/recreational plans to ensure that each young person needs over the full 24 hours of each day are correctly assessed and that all such plans are directly relevant and appropriate to each resident’s needs in line with their EHC plan.

- To develop and maintain good working relationships with:
• Parents and other family members
• Social workers
• Establishment staff
• Other professionals with a concern for the young peoples’ needs, such as general practitioners, psychologists and occupational therapists.

About The Candidate
What qualifications, skills or experience are needed?

- NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent qualification in child/adult care/support.
- At least 2 years significant management/supervisory experience in a care setting within the past 5 years at a competent level.
- Proven experience, at least 4 years, of working effectively with people with learning disabilities and/or special needs
- A good knowledge of good management practice including relevant aspects of employment issues and legislation, health and safety and anti-discrimination

- Knowledge of learning disabilities and/or special needs including recent developments and person-centred planning
- A good knowledge of the Quality Standards, relevant statutory regulations and how they apply within the working practice, including the inspection process.
- Ability to attend work punctually and reliably including nights, evenings and weekends as required to fulfil the role effectively
- Ability to undertake on-call duties and be able to reach the establishment within a reasonable timeframe.
- Clean, current driving licence

What do you get in return?

- A competitive salary
- Genuine support from peers and management
- Coaching, training and development
- Future career opportunities in a growing organisation
- Life assurance
- Free car parking

About Kisimul Group

Kisimul Group Ltd are a group of independent specialist schools and adult provisions providing exceptional residential care and award-winning education to children, young people and adults with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, severe and complex learning difficulties, global development delay and associated challenging behaviour.
Kisimul is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Kisimul is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all
All applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check. Kisimul Group Ltd is an equal opportunities employer.


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