Group Manager

The post holder will comply with LSW policy and maintain supervision and appraisals to ensure staff are supported and have the opportunity to maintain registration, develop skills related to the role they work. The post holder will support both unregistered and registered staff to grow and develop, particularly those staff who have ambition to access learning and career development through apprenticeship schemes and other agreed learning pathways By delegation by the Service Manager, the post holder will act as appointing officer for recruitment within their area of management. They will follow recruitment procedure and through to appointment and arrange corporate and local induction. Post induction, the post holder will, where necessary monitor and support through induction period. Within two weeks of appointment, the post holder will have carried out a personal development plan for the employees first six months The post holder may deliver training related to particular areas of clinical speciality or service delivery The post holder monitors and authorises travel and other expenses related to the execution of duties of team.The post holder shares responsibility for authorising and checking petty cash The post holder will authorise replacement of equipment and purchase of equipment prescribed by Occupational health or other assessments. The post holder is responsible for organising a complex and varied work schedule that encompasses service development and management duties The post holder is responsible for ensuring clinical records, assessments and reviews are conducted and recorded in a timely way. The post holder will, at times, be required to hold a small caseload or undertake specific casework/support that is likely to involve other health and social care professionals. At such times, it is likely that he post holder may hold care-coordinator responsibility Care/support will be delivered in a range of settings (out-patient appointments from base, in GP surgeries, in the persons home, in other community settings) By delegation from the Service Manager, the post holder will take a lead role in the development of designated service/treatment pathways and develop policy to support other service delivery areas in Livewell Southwest to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities, mainly in relation to nursing. The post holder will be a point of contact for people who use our service and their carers or families when the responsible practitioner or another member of the core team is absent or the enquiry has been escalated to a manager. The post holder will liaise with people who use the service in relation to the recruitment process and consult with individuals or user groups in relation to consultation about service developments By delegation form the Service Manager, the post holder is responsible to design, develop and implement change within their own work areas and influence changes in other areas of service delivery within Livewell By delegation from the Service Manager, the post holder will be part of long term, strategic development within the organisation and wider TCP/STP within areas specified by the Service Manager The post holder will be responsible for reviewing service compliance across a range of sources, (e.g. SystmOne, Risk register )as identified by the Service Manager The post holder will undertake service based audits, liaise with external agencies in relation to educational and service development. The post holder will be available to provide and support to the staff of the CLDT The post holder will have contact with people with learning disabilities, their families and carers in relation to providing support and responding to issues impacting on their lives. The post holder will communicate with the Head of Service in relation to operational issues related to the delivery of their service responsibility and in situations delegated by the Service Manager The post holder will communicate with relevant LSW boards in relation to service developments within the service, at the request of the service Manager The post holder will communicate with other service providers across the city and peninsula (including Devon Partnership Trust) The post holder will hold delegated responsibility to represent the CLDT at ICB meetings. The post holder will be required to chair multi-disciplinary and multi-agency meetings that will include service users, families and a range of stakeholders