Registered Manager – Bath

Job Description

Registered Manger – Adult Social Care – Bath

Are you a passionate Registered Manger looking for your next role? 4Recruitment Services are currently recruiting for a Registered Manger to work within Adult Social Care services based in Bath.

Pay: £21.41 – £27 per hour  

Information on the Role: Successful candidates will be offered 6-8 weeks initially Monday-Friday. The working hours will be 8.30am – 5pm.

What you will be doing:

• To be responsible for all administration, the management of finances and stock control, the maintenance of hygiene and Health and Safety standards as laid down and the care and maintenance of the building/s and equipment.
• To lead and support service managers, deputy managers and senior staff to allocate and monitor services to individual service users, in accordance with care and support plans agreed by the Commissioning Teams.
• To support, develop and enable service users towards participation in community life, personal independence, and normal social functioning, consistent with their abilities and preferences.
• To maintain high standards of confidentiality at all times in accordance with policies and procedures and legal requirements. When information needs to be shared it must be necessary, proportionate, relevant, accurate, timely and secure.
• To enable service users to participate in the recreational and leisure activities of their choice, and to assist them to maintain their personal skills.
• To ensure that all Care and Support Plans and information about service users/residents including manual and computerised information, are recorded to an agreed format and an acceptable standard and kept in accordance with Data Protection Legislation (GDPR).
• To promote and maintain quality assurance processes in line with agreed monitoring and reporting systems.
• To ensure the residential services are compliant with the guidelines and standards set out by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and other statutory and legal frameworks and to respond appropriately to inspection reports.
• To manage service user assessment, including undertaking home visits where necessary.
• To ensure that risk assessments are carried out for each service user so that the service is provided in a manner which minimises risk to the service user and staff, and to keep records of all completed risk assessments.
• To ensure that financial information is obtained from service users, or via commissioning colleagues and recorded to assist with financial assessments can be made and relevant charges levied and collected.
• To enable service users to participate in the recreational and leisure activities of their choice, and to assist them to maintain their personal skills.

  
Skills & Professional Characteristics needed:

• To ensure effective and accessible communication with staff, service users, the public and others as appropriate.
• Where required to lead, coordinate, and chair monthly meetings with partner agencies, i.e., social housing landlords, social workers and commissioners.
• The ability to be proactive, think creatively and identify development opportunities and continuing ways of improvement both in yourself and for the service.
• Strong team player with a collaborative work style. i.e., being a good communicator, empathetic listener, respectful, reliable, and trustworthy member of the team.
• The ability to be proactive, think creatively and identify development opportunities and continuing ways of improvement both in yourself and for the service.
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
• Ability to cope with conflicting demands and deadlines and proactive in identifying and resolving problems.
• Ability to assimilate new information quickly.

  
Essential Requirements:

• Possession of the Registered Care Manager Award or equivalent is essential.
• A recognised social services qualification (e.g., City and Guilds 325/3 Diploma, or a Certificate in Management Studies or a relevant Social Work qualification, and/or Assessor Award/ Level 2/3/4 in Care.
• Strong influencing and negotiating skills.
• Ability to assimilate new information quickly.
• Knowledge of applying care governance and care management to operational policy.
• Negotiation skills and an understanding of and commitment to quality assurance, including customer feedback
• A minimum of two years supervisory or management experience in care or support work, including staff supervision and appraisal and either experience of full responsibility for managing a budget, or experience of budget management with supervision.

  
Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer.
To discuss this vacancy in further detail or any other vacancies, please contact out Team on 0808 178 4445 or email careteam@4recruitmentservices.com.