Are you a current or aspiring assistant manager in Social Care, wanting to use your experience to provide care that maximises independence and wellbeing?

We are looking for a motivated person who is passionate about providing outstanding care quality for adults with care and support needs. This is unique opportunity to influence the creation of a new home care reablement service which prevents hospital and care home admissions and acts as a provider of last resort.

Our mission is to provide opportunities and choice so that individuals, especially those with complex needs, can thrive. Our aspirations are to receive an ‘outstanding’ rating with the CQC, and we are looking for someone who shares our values, ambitions, and vision.

You will work flexibly across various care settings, delivery approaches and locations in the north of Staffordshire, you will assist the Service Manager by supporting the day-to-day operation of the services.

You will be required to participate in an on-call rota with members from the management team. This will attract additional payment.

We provide full paid training and ongoing development to enable you to pursue your career aspirations.

Post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

This is a full-time role with some travel to services located in the north of the County, you will be expected to work flexibly across the week according to business need.

You will support the Service Manager by supporting the day-to-day operation of services, monitoring and maintaining delivery of an excellent level of care with a multi-disciplinary team, to enable people we support to have a comfortable and dignified life where they are empowered to achieve their ambitions.

• You will support the service Manager to oversee a CQC regulated Domiciliary service based initially in the North of the County with potential expansion.
• The role will focus on promoting person-centred practice, overseeing new referrals, people management, recruitment, selection and induction, quality assurance, compliance and continuous improvement.
• You will manage disciplinary teams including Occupational Therapy, Care co-ordinators, Senior Support Facilitators and Support Facilitators.

What you will bring

You will have the ability to relate positively to the people that we support, communicating effectively with staff at all levels and building good relationships with other professionals that we work with. You are able to manage, coach and support staff, identifying and monitoring training needs and delivery training, as necessary. You will have the ability to work effectively with others to achieve business plans, agreed targets and performance indicators, and work effectively under pressure and prioritise workloads.

What you will have

• Relevant level 3 or above qualification in health and social care.
• Full Driving license and a vehicle with business insurance.
• Knowledge and understanding of the needs of people with complex needs.
• Knowledge of the legislation and regulatory framework affecting vulnerable adults.
• Knowledge of the personalisation agenda, care planning and reviews and evidence of a commitment to achieving positive, personalised outcomes for individuals.
• Knowledge of risk management and positive risk taking and experience assessing, managing and migrating risks.
• Experience in the management in staff, including recruitment and selection, support and supervision and performance management.
• Experience of working within constraints of legislation , regulation, policy and procedures.
• Experience of promoting genuine community participation and inclusion for service users.
• Knowledge of reablement care.
• Knowledge of Access Care Planning and People planner.
• Experience in collating performance KPI'S and using excel spreadsheets.

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too. 

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance. 

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to Our rewards and benefits - Careers at Staffordshire

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Gold Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post. 

As you’ll know safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our children and young people/vulnerable adults is important to us and that’s why this position is subject to a criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service. If applicable you should disclose details of unspent and unfiltered spent reprimands, formal warnings, cautions and convictions in your application form.