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Form of workWe are Hestia. We make a difference.
At Hestia, we live by our values and are committed to a more equitable, diverse, and inclusive organisation that provides a variety of services such as Domestic Abuse, Modern Slavery, Mental Health & Complex Needs and Criminal Justice. We are committed to empower people to rebuild their lives and regain independence.
The service you will work in….
Croydon Mental Health service provides accommodation and floating support to adults aged 18+ with low to medium-level mental health needs. The service operates with collaboration at its heart, working directly with service users to promote independence and wellbeing with an ultimate focus on recovery. All service users are in control of their recovery and staff support individuals at a pace that suits the user.
A day in this role looks like….
As a Service Manager at Hestia, you will play a crucial role in our Complex Needs Service. Your contributions will directly influence the lives of our service users, guiding them towards a path of empowerment and independence.
A day will never look the same and some of the things you can expect to do/be responsible for are:
- To lead the day-to-day functioning of the Mental Health Services. Leading staff teams and ensuring that we provide a safe environment and an empowering and co-produced approach to supporting adults with severe and enduring mental health needs.
- Create and lead a high-performing team to achieve individual and service outcomes
- Maintain up to date knowledge of and ensure that your service adheres to the relevant legislation and policy including GDPR, Safeguarding Adults and Children, Health and Safety, Care Act, housing related support, Mental Health services and Hestia policies and procedures.
- Ability to communicate skills needed to develop effective relationships with teams, individuals, their service users
- Create and maintain positive and effective relationships within and beyond the organisation
- Ensuring that the service and all members of the team understand and have a strong focus on Hestia's safeguarding procedures and legislations
- Ensure that all service and client information is appropriately recorded and shared in line with policy, legislation and good practice
- Deliver co-produced services that is outcome based and person-centred
- Support others to challenge discrimination and exclusion in ways that are likely to achieve change.
- Deliver services that are safe, complying with all relevant health and safety policies and legislation
- Ensure a commitment to personal development by continually improving learner's own knowledge and practice and that of the team through, self-reflection, supervision and performance management.
- Manage and show accountability for service resources through recruitment, retention and induction; budgetary control; disciplinary and grievance processes, arrears and voids management and service performance data
- Use strategies and tools to build self-resilience, maintain wellbeing whilst deliver to workload requirements.
- To ensure that the organisation's strategies are met and policies, procedures and values are adhered to in all matters of service delivery
Why Hestia?
Joining Hestia means more than just a job; it's an opportunity to be part of something bigger. We offer a supportive, inclusive and resolution driven work environment where your contributions are recognised and valued. As a member of our team, you will have the chance to grow both personally and professionally while making a lasting impact on the lives of those we serve.
We are looking for candidates who bring a combination of passion, expertise, and dedication to the table. To excel in this role, you should possess:
- Ability to lead and motivate a team based across various premises to achieve service outcomes
- Demonstrable experience of managing accommodation based support services for clients who have complex and challenging mental health issues.
- Knowledge of methods of assessing, formulating, implementing, recording, reviewing and auditing service users' support and safety assessment plans.
- Excellent knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and how to implement policy in practice.
- Manage all elements of service performance related to the contract requirements including analysis of KPIs, outcomes and user experience measures
- Lead on the development and implementation the service's annual Business Plans.
- Ability to communicate confidently and effectively to a wide range of audiences
- Numerate and literate with the ability to interrogate budgets, data and produce reports
- Able to confidently use a range of IT packages including MS Office and databases
- Good understanding of housing management and the ability to manage arrears, voids, health and safety and property standards
- Lead in planning, negotiating and managing the budgets
- An understanding of co-production and the ability to ensure that the service is delivered in partnership with service users
- Experience of recruitment, induction, supervision, appraisal, training, disciplinary action and grievance issues
- Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding issues and ability to address them appropriately
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Our services users come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes us stronger. We are committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and value the skills, abilities, talent and experiences, different people and communities bring to our organisation.
We are a disability confident employer…
Hestia is a disability confident employer, committed to the employment and career development of individual with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for all applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role they have applied for. We will also accommodate reasonable adjustment during the selection and interview process and throughout your employment with us.
