Service Manager

We're looking for a CQC Registered Service Manager to join our Luton Road Service in Newham.

£42,000.00 - £45,000.00 per annum, working 35 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.

Want to feel in control of your career? You'll feel at home here.

Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.

The Service Manager will be responsible for the operations of a specialist supported living service which support up to eleven residents with Learning Disabilities, Autism, complex behaviours and/or physical health needs. The role will provide line management for a Team Leader and support the team, ensuring that compliance with organisational, legal regulations and those of the local authority are adhered to. The successful candidate will be responsible for the quality of support provided, ensuring excellent quality of life for customers and a good working environment for colleagues. The role will require the individual to be the CQC registered manager for the service, making the person the accountable person with the Care Quality Commission, as well as with commissioners and key stakeholders.

The role will also require the individual to embed a Capable Environment in the service/s and a Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) approach through coaching and leadership. Co-production and a person-centred approach are essential to this role.

Regular working hours will be Monday - Friday, 9.00 - 17.00, however flexibility will be required.

All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.

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What you'll do:

Ensure the customer is central in their support and a co-production model is promoted.

Work with teams to support data driven decision making and reduce incidents, promoting quality of life and high levels of participation in meaningful activities

Work to the principles of STOMP

Lead on assessments of complex needs referrals

Monitor the delivery and assess effectiveness of Behavioural Support Plans

Responsible for managing and allocating customers to support staff (casework management)

Lead on quality visits, using Look Ahead's local indicators to monitor quality/performance, set targets and lead action plans to ensure highly rated services that reflect requirements of local funders and local and national standards

Promote a person-centred culture and co-production

Lead on improvement action plans following quality audits and inspections and ensure improvement plans are prepared, monitored, complied with and improvements embedded

Effective management of any safeguarding incidents and appropriate escalation of any emerging risks

Promote safe, consistent and predictable environments, in line with the Capable Environments framework

Promote understanding of the rationale of a Behavioural Support Plan, Capable Environments and its uses

Using sound financial and accounting principles, manage and analyse contract budgets to deliver on corporate and local contract financial targets

Ensure improvements in services result in sustained financial and performance delivery

Support the filling of voids

Drive business planning activities within your contract, ensuring relevant and challenging objective setting and ongoing performance tracking, developing turn around action plans as may be necessary

Be a role model to the team and establish clear roles and effective teamwork, always ensuring a person-centred approach

Work to continuously improve staff competence, ensure ownership of all staff issues and speedy and effective conflict resolution

Deliver effective, professional and commercially focused briefings and supervision meetings with staff and ensure that information, reporting & communications flow up/down is effective

Coach employees in having a person-centred approach

Address employee relationship issues in a prompt manner

Lead on safeguarding, recruitment and contractual issues with the funding authority

Responsible for reporting all staff changes to HR and Payroll departments, as appropriate e.g. starters, leavers, additional hours

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead

What you'll bring:

Essential:

Educated to degree level or equivalent

Experience of managing contracts and resources and delivering to budget and performance targets

Have operational management experience in social care

Experience of effectively managing and developing staff to ensure delivery of services performance targets within contract

Experience of successfully managing external partnerships to ensure successful delivery of services

Hold a relevant RMA/NVQ Level 4 or other business/management qualification

Excellent IT skills

Desirable:

PBS training or experience working within the PBS framework

Have relevant professional memberships and/or specialist qualifications.