Registered Manager - Learning Disabilities - Mansfield

Job Description

In 1995 Lifeways opened its first location for people with complex needs. Over 25 years later and weve grown to become the UKs largest supported living specialist and are proud to help almost 5,000 people to live more fulfilling, independent lives.Our commitment is to provide extraordinary support that creates life-changing outcomes for people with complex needs. We do this through our stability, our local teams, our strong relationships, and our shared focus on quality and reassurance. Job Description A strong value base is at the heart of our service at Future Home Care; therefore, we would expect the successful candidate to clearly demonstrate their strengths in areas such as accountability, a rights-based approach, resilience, caring, passionate aboutdelivering person-centred care, positive, enabling, empowering, and solutions-focused (often creatively!) to name but a few. Transparency, respect, and integrity are key.Post Holders Key Responsibilities:

• Successfully register with the Care Quality Commission as the Registered Manager in an appropriate timeframe
• Promote an enabling environment, ensuring high standards of professional practice, whilst achieving compliance with internal policies as well as regulatory standards and legislation
• Provide specific management, support, advice, and motivation to staff teams to ensure that the people who use our services are supported to be as independent as possible and achieve their goals
• Monitor and support the delivery of person-centred services to all people using the service
• Ensure that principles of positive risk taking and active support based on knowledge of the person and staff are embedded into the service
• Ability to supervise a team and take responsibility for implementation of Positive Behavioural Support Plans (PBSP), with the support of a dedicated PBS practitioner
• Devote time to care reviews, quality assurance, and compliance with legislation, training and supervision of care practitioners, and clinical supervision for direct care staff
• Lead a compassionate and respectful culture of care and support for both staff and people supported. This may be in supervisory (e.g., directly supervising front line staff), managerial (supporting and responsible for supervisor and frontline staff) orclinical roles (responsible for assessment, devising and overall implementation of the PBS) and capacity
• Work collaboratively with staff and people supported, empowering them so their voices and ideas are heard. Ideally you would lead reflective sessions with the team, to help staff learn and gain new skills
• Ensure that the actions of all staff directly supporting people using the service support their care, protection, and well-being, and comply with external regulations and standards
• Where incidents arise that may relate to behaviours that challenge, then detailed records will be maintained. Analysis of incidents should be undertaken by the Management Team in partnership with the PBS practitioner where appropriate
• Appropriate debriefing following an incident shall be undertaken
• Ensure that staff providing direct support shall receive 1:1 supervision from their line manager or another senior every 6-8 weeks as a minimum. Supervision and support will be provided through effective recruitment and selection, coaching and performancemanagement of team leaders and a deputy manager in addition to this
• It is essential that the successful candidate works in partnership with the multi-disciplinary teams. You will be expected to forge good relationships with the multi-disciplinary team, working in an open and transparent way to identify solutions and overcomebarriers. The service and people supported, and therefore yourself as the manager, will be at the heart of MDT meetingswhere you will need to feel confident challenging ideas appropriately, but also open to ideas and suggestions from a range of health andsocial care professionals, the people supported, and those close to them
• To guarantee a positive approach to partnership working across the service, ensuring that all colleagues working in this service develop a respectful, open, and professional relationship with multi-disciplinary teamsincluding, but not limited to, a rangeof health and social care professionals, the people supported and those close to them. Where conflict arises, the Manager must adhere to governance arrangements in place, in line with a solutions-focused approach
• Be trained to Tier 3 of the Skills for Health Competency Framework for supporting autistic people
• Ensure effective financial administration of the services delivered, through the effective deployment of staff and budgets

• In this role you will be required to be highly flexible and participate in the 24-hour on-call rotational system providing management support to staff and person-centred approaches to the people who use our services.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications:

• The Registered Manager must have a PBS certificate at Level 3 or higher, or alternative relevant accreditation. You will hold, or be working towards, a relevant professional Qualification at Level 5 or Higher in Care or Management e.g. NVQ/SVQ, QCF AwardCertificate or Diploma (also known as BTEC Professional Award, Certificate, Diploma)
• Ideally a minimum of four years experience within the relevant field, specifically supporting adults with complex needs, and a minimum of three years management experience
• Experience of working with people with complex needs who show behaviours of concern and people with learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and mental health conditions. Prior Clinical knowledge would be advantageous
• Ability to show outstanding leadership and management skills and embed a values-based culture in line with our vision for this service
• You will possess good time management skills and be IT literate
• You will be committed to reporting on Service User outcomes and organisational KPI reporting
• Resilience, transparency, and a positive, proactive approach is essential

At Lifeways we value our colleagues and work hard to develop their skills through the provision of training and support, including fully subsidised vocational qualifications. We are expanding and so there are real opportunities for career development.If you feel ready for a change and are able to take on a new challenge, we want to hear from you.The successful candidates will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check or *Protection of Vulnerable Groups Check PVG (*Scotland only).