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SalaryJob type: Permanent
Salary: £32,500
Expiry date: 22 Feb 2024 23:59
Are you looking for a meaningful career? Would you like the opportunity to become a dedicated manager for their Day opportunities, helping individuals with learning disabilities live the best life possible?
They are looking for a Day Opportunities Manager to lead their team in Flintshire
Our client is a charity that supports adults with learning disabilities. They believe in a world where anyone with a learning disability can live within their community with all the choice and support they need to live the best life possible. They are looking for people who are naturally caring and compassionate and align with their values. Having a driving licence for this role is essential to travel extensively across all their organisation and where needed to stay away from home, work weekends and evenings.
They offer:
- Annual Leave: 33 days (including 8 days statutory bank holidays)
- Continuous Training: Access to award winning training and development
- Wagestream: Allows you to flexibly access your pay throughout the month and utilise a range of financial support, through its dedicated app.
- Aviva Digicare + workplace: Access to wellbeing services including health checks, Digital GP and mental health support.
- TELUS health: A 24/service, completely confidential counselling and support platform and helpline that is free for all colleagues to use.
- Discounted mobile ‘phone contracts: As an employee, you’ll be able to take advantage of Vodafone’s Employee Advantage programme, giving you up to 30% off.
- Care Friends: Employee referral app - earn money for referring your friends to work for them.
- Free life assurance: 3 x your annual salary
- Family friendly policies
About you
You will be a people person –with a qualification or experience of working with people with learning disabilities or mental health needs. As a manager you will have a track record of empowering people to achieve outcomes and goals with an understanding of the principles of Welsh social care and the confidence to embed this and the values of their organisation into everything you do. You will need a good understanding of health and safety and how this applies to a social care and horticultural setting. They are also interested in hearing from people with a business background who can help to shape the service to becoming a sustainable social enterprise. A driving License is essential for this role.
The ideal candidate should possess the following skills and abilities:
- A capacity for ope.rational thinking
- Proficiency in leading and managing teams, acting as a role model in people leadership and performance improvement.
- Effective communication skills with individuals under support, their families/carers, and other professionals.
- Strong proficiency in MS Office, bespoke IT systems, and Rota management software like Access People Planner.
- Innovation within legal and organisational boundaries.
- Efficient management of time and resources.
- A professional, swift, and adaptable approach to crisis management.
- Skills in leading and implementing change.
- Aptitude for making well-considered decisions.
- Understanding and support in producing financial data.
- Collaboration skills to manage conflicts in the workplace effectively.
- An initiative-driven work ethic.
Expertise required:
You will hold a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care or hold a level 3 diploma and be willing to undertake the level 5 apprenticeship qualification within an agreed reasonable timescale of 18 months as part of a development plan.
You will have knowledge of:
- legislation and guidance relating to adults with learning disabilities
- CQC regulations (desirable not essential)
- Safeguarding regulations
- Health and safety regulations
- Positive Behavioural Support management and techniques
- contracting, tenders and negotiations
- national benefit frameworks
- Qualification in Sustainable Woodland Management is desirable.
For more information, please refer to the job description and person spec below.
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