Job description

District Service Manager

Location: Eastleigh & The New Forest

Salary: £43,469pa 

Permanent, Full Time

The first suitable applicant will be appointed.

Essential Requirements:

• Able to provide coaching, advice and support to managers and staff 

• Able to work to and monitor quality standards across services 

• Have a strong management background in the Social Care Sector

• Knowledge of best practice around person centred planning and co-production

• Knowledge of Safeguarding for adults and children

• Have a breadth of experience working with vulnerable adults with a range of disabilities.

• Can work flexibly to meet the needs of the people we work with

• Possess a driving license and has access to a car with business insurance

• Able to work weekend and bank holidays as required 

• Be educated to degree level or have the equivalent vocational qualification or significant relevant experience.

The Role: 

• We have exciting and rewarding opportunities to work alongside people with disabilities. The role of the District service manager is to effectively support and manage the management team to provide excellent, flexible support in line with YOU’s values at all times.

• You will be responsible for leading Team Managers in the delivery of excellent person-centred support to vulnerable adults in the services across the locality.

• You will have an excellent understanding of safeguarding, risk management, health and safety, recruitment, role modelling, anti-discriminatory practice, local knowledge and developing opportunities for people. You will be responsible for developing our co-production Working Together groups

• You will lead on risk management and support the team managers to manage risk within the services and will be able to delegate tasks to the Managers appropriate with their role and level of responsibility.

• You will be a CQC registered manager ensuring the services meet internal and external quality and performance standards. Building excellent relationships with external agencies, using these relationships to provide increased opportunities to the people we work with.

About You:

• I will be person centred at all times and ensure empowerment is at the heart of everything I do

• I will act with integrity, be trustworthy and treat people with dignity and respect

• I will strive for excellence in all that I do and coach others to be so

• I am enthusiastic, can do and always think how I can achieve the things that are asked of me

• I role model professionalism, excellence and innovation. 

• I am calm when dealing with emergencies and crisis

• I am a reflective practitioner, aware of myself and challenge myself to develop my skills and knowledge

• I am flexible and creative in my work and help others to be so

Our Benefits:

 If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

*       Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.

*       Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

*       Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.

*       Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.

*       Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes.

*       Real opportunities to develop in your profession.

*       Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.

*       Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!

*       Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity. 

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