Project Manager

Cloud Recruit is looking for a caring, dynamic and highly motivated person to help manage the varied portfolio of social care services in Blackpool. You will be working with the Service Manager and be jointly responsible for maintaining an overview of all services, leading a highly motivated team of Team Leaders and Senior staff and contributing to the further development of services within the region. You must be an accomplished manager and have extensive experience and knowledge of working within the social care sector in support of people with learning disabilities and mental health needs.

You will be responsible for our current service provision in the area, which includes:

• Supported living services for people with a learning disability and people on the autistic spectrum, including people who have additional complex care and communication needs.
• Floating and community support for people with a learning disability/mental health needs.

Requirements:

• You will carry out the role demonstrating a person-centred approach with a warm, confident, professional manner.
• Experience of staff and service management is essential.
• Prior experence as a Registered Manager is not essential but you must be a confident and accountable practitioner with the ability to put CQC quality standards into practice.
• You must be able to lead a team with confidence and provide clear guidance, supervision and support to your team members.
• You will be able to communicate positively and professionally with the families of the people we support, their advocates and other agencies.
• You will be based in our friendly, well equipped office Blackpool and will be expected to have regular direct contact with service users and attend person-centred reviews.
• You will be required to oversee staff deployment and rotas and to work in a flexible manner yourself including working evenings and weekends.

This role offers unique and challenging opportunities bringing great job satisfaction and career development opportunities. We provide relevant training including accredited management training and health and social care diplomas through our own training academy. We may support you with advanced practitioner training opportunities in relevant areas. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture.

Benefits:

A competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.

We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.

This is a temporary to permanent role.

Salary: Up to £27,000 per annum based on experience and qualifications.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week to be worked flexibly according to the needs of the service.