Cluster Care Home Manager

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CLUSTER CARE HOME MANAGER

Salary: Up to £42k dependent on experience

Hours:37.5 per week and be part of an on-call rota. Flexibility is required to meet the needs of the service this may include some evenings, weekends, and bank holidays

Shift:The services provide 24/7 support, with 3 teams at each service

Location:Chatham & Strood

Closing Date: 20th August 2021

About The Role

The Kent Autistic Trust is a very well-established specialist care provider supporting autistic people throughout Medway and across Kent. Our primary aim is to ensure autistic adults have the best quality of life that they can have. People with autism are at the heart of all that we do.

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, Supported Living/Care/Service Manager to take over from the well-respected current manager. The role involves managing two well established Supported Living services based in Medway, supporting 13 tenants with complex needs and Autism. Both services already have experienced Assistant Managers in situ together with a highly specialist staff team.

Are you a dynamic leader, with a pragmatic approach and certainly someone who isn’t afraid to roll their sleeves up? This role requires a manager who will lead from the front, ensuring we continue to provide a secure and safe home in which the tenants can express their individuality through meaningful activities to maximise their unique development needs, and aspirations.

Both services certainly benefit from having a highly energised and creative staff team and excel in creating a fantastic social atmosphere by hosting regular communal events for their tenants such as karaoke, barbecues, parties, and competitions.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in managing either a residential care service or supported living service. We are looking for a supportive manager with a coaching mindset who will continue to enable the team to succeed. The role works closely with the Medway Regional Manager to ensure we achieve our quality vision. Ideally you should have already achieved NVQ Level 5 or equivalent. Many of the people we support have their own vehicle and we also have our own fleet of people carriers. As this is a driver essential role, you must hold a valid driving licence.

Our Ideal Cluster Care Home Manager Is Someone

• With bags of energy who never gives
• Who can quickly adapt to challenging and crisis situations
• Who will always act where they see a problem or an opportunity
• Someone who can take on board the views of all tenants, families, and stakeholders
  

The responsibilities of the Cluster Care Home Manager include, but are not limited to:

• Managing and coordinating day-to-day activities within the service
• Ensuring good practice within services
• Managing teams and individuals
• Establishing and maintaining effective communication
• Participating in the On-Call system
• Working flexibly to meet the needs of the service, carrying out shifts if necessary
• Ensuring any housing issues are reported and acted upon
  

Benefits We Offer you as a Cluster Care Home Manager:

We offer many benefits, which include some salary sacrifice arrangements, although some benefits are dependent on a minimum earnings threshold:

• Paid DBS Check
• 33 days holiday
• Company Sick Pay after 12 months service
• Death in Service Benefits
• Long Service and Contribution Recognition Awards
• Pension (after 3 months)
• Employee Assistance Programme, with counselling services
• Significant Retail and Leisure Discount Scheme that could save staff an average of £1,000 p.a.
• Discounted Gym Membership
• Financial Well-being Scheme (loans and savings)
• Superb paid training
• Regulated Care Qualification Sponsorship
• Refer a Friend Recruitment Bounty (currently £500)
  

About The Trust

Supporting over 100 people in Medway and across Kent, The Kent Autistic Trust provides a wide range of services designed to meet diverse needs of the people we support with autism, learning disabilities and related difficulties. We provide residential homes, supported living accommodation, day resource services, respite, and outreach services. Ensuring the voice of those we support is actively listened to, working for us often means that no two days are the same, but the care and support we give is of consistently high quality, with CQC rating all our services good, and many outstanding.

Special Covid-19 Measures

Were continuing to deliver all our services during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our amazing staff are the glue that keeps us together. To ensure we keep everyone safe, well engage with you digitally where possible for recruitment purposes.

As a provider of registered services, and as our roles may include some personal care requirements, from 1 October, anyone working in a Care Quality Commission-registered care home in England must have two vaccine doses unless they have a medical exemption.

We do not accept applications made via agencies.

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