Deputy Manager - Rehabilitation Services

What's involved with this role: Interim Deputy Manager - Rehabilitation Services Gloucestershire Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role Candidates must be prepared to work outside normal working hours.Key Requirements:

• Level 5 in Health and Social Care/Management (or equivalent) or willingness to work towards, or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working in a management/leadership role with people with physical or learning disabilities, or cognitive impairments, providing support with personal care, mobility, and medication administration.
• Experience arranging and leading multi-disciplinary team meetings.
• Experience of report writing and managing meetings/reviews.
• Experience of planning, coordinating, and organising staff training and development.
• Experience of organising and managing staff deployment/rotas and developing innovative activity timetables.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office or equivalent software (e.g., G Suite).

As a Deputy Manager within our Rehabilitation Services, you will support the Registered Manager in the operational day-to-day management of our 24-hour regulated service, ensuring continued compliance with Care Quality Commission (CQC) legislation to deliver a high-quality service.Under the guidance of the Registered Manager and with the support of the Team Leaders, you will ensure that our rehabilitation services are caring, safe, effective, well-led and responsive.Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Registered Manager to lead on the day-to-day management of the team to ensure the delivery of high-quality services, and to ensure the safety and wellbeing of individuals accessing our service and the rehabilitation team.
• Deputise in the absence of the Registered Manager.
• Provide individual and group professional, reflective supervision, training provision, and support to others, ensuring that practice is continuously critically reflected upon and improved, modelling best practice to ensure good outcomes.
• Undertake effective people management for staff including all recruitment, supervision, PDR's, wellbeing, performance, and attendance management.
• Support with recruitment and retention activities, including interviews, shortlisting, induction, and probations.
• Take delegated responsibility or assist with ensuring the services are appropriately resourced with suitably qualified, skilled, and experienced staff.
• Support the Registered Manager in ensuring the service meets, and exceeds, the requirements of the Health & Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2010 and the Care Quality Commission guidance 'Essential Standards of Quality & Safety'.
• At all times ensure that priority is given to the safeguarding of individuals attending the service by implementing and ensuring all safeguarding policies and procedures are followed.
• Provide support and guidance to staff administering medication.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside - there is no need for a full address.Please feel free to apply to us direct via by quoting the job reference and exact job title.If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please