Deputy Manager 
Salary: £13.06 per hour (£25,604.04 per annum)
Hours: 37.5 hours
Job Type: Permanent
Service: Mental Health
Location: Brixton
Shift Pattern: Monday - Sunday (early & late shifts)
Application Deadline: 14 February 2021

This is an exciting opportunity to join Certitude as a Deputy Manager as we continue to grow as a social care provider in London.

Benefits

- A stimulating work environment full of opportunities to learn and develop
- 25 days’ annual leave, pension scheme and access to 24-hour Employee Assistance
- Paid Enhanced DBS
- Eye care vouchers
- Travel season ticket loan & cycle to work scheme (eligible after 1 year’s service)
- Perkbox

About the role

The role of a Deputy Manager is to provide leadership, development and direction across the service, ensuring that the team provides the people we support with the service they need to lead a good life and achieve the things that are important to them and their families.

Duties:

- Build great relationships with the people we support and the people important in their lives (families, other staff, and external professionals). 
- Know their skills, interests, qualities, strengths, challenges, ways of communicating and aspirations and ensure the individualised service they receive plays to their strengths; helps them tackle their challenges and achieve their goals.
- Ensure all the plans and records relating to people are accurate and up to date, using respectful language which allows people to see what progress is being made against goals; track areas of concern (e.g. health) and take action as agreed.
- To develop and implement individual Quality of Life plans that focus on individuals’ preferences and needs and maximise and maintain their personal independence, all the while promoting rights, autonomy and choices.
- Work in a consistent and positive way with local managers and other team members to ensure people get a great service from the whole team at any time. Ensure all organisational policies and specific agreed ways of working in the service are followed e.g. that specific support plans are being followed up, that medication processes are being adhered to, that money is managed effectively and that health and safety practices are carried out.
- Supervise, coach and train colleagues in person-centred support practices, giving and acting on received feedback on what is going well and what is not going well.
- To use information technology (including a computer) to undertake a range of administrative tasks and to follow procedural guidelines and complete appropriate documentation in required formats. Compile detailed written reports and be able to communicate clearly to people we support, employees and other professionals, all the while understanding the nature of confidentiality.

About you

To be a Deputy Manager at Certitude, the following is essential:

- Experience of supporting people who have mental health needs or learning disabilities to become more active in their community.
- Experience of mentoring/supervising/coaching others.
- Person-centred working and developing person-centred support plans with individuals.
- Knowledge of safeguarding.
- A good communicator (written and verbal) and listener, someone who can communicate well with different people and can clearly get their ideas across in writing and verbally.
- Able to organise self and others to get things done with a high level of attention to detail.

About the organisation

At the Certitude Group, we are proud of our history of supporting people with complex mental health needs and learning disabilities. We support more than 1,800 people across London through a diverse range of support services and believe in providing the right level of support, to enable individuals to flourish, contribute and live a good life.  

As a Gold Level Investor in People, we have high employee engagement and a strong commitment to people development from both our Board and Leadership Team. As a result, we can support people with mental health needs and learning disabilities to live the life they want to lead; happy, healthy, respected as equals and valued for their contribution within communities.

We aim to be the best social care employer in London and are proud of our reputation as a London employer - employing more than 1,500 staff and volunteers with a turnover of £48m.

Our values

- Continuously Improving
- Working Together
- Inspired by People
- Dependable

Do you want to be a Deputy Manager at Certitude? Complete an application form and someone from the Recruitment Team will be in touch! 

All our posts are subject to an Enhanced DBS disclosure, as well as a full employment history and employment references. We are committed to equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We reserve the right to close vacancies before the date stated when we have received sufficient applications from which to make a shortlist. You are advised to submit your completed application form as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered.

Keywords: Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Learning Disabilities, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP.

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