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Key Care & Support are recruiting a Day Service Lead/ Manager.

Location: Key Care & Support Community Hub, Sale, Trafford

Responsible to: Head of Care and support

Accountable to: Registered Manager

Responsible for: Providing a range of dynamic and person centred opportunities for people with Learning Disabilities and additional support needs, people with autism, people that can challenge service provision, and also services for adults with Physical Disabilities. This will entail leading and managing support teams within the Community Hub including:

Therapists

Team Leaders

Support Workers

Transport assistants and escort service

The postholder will shape services for people and ensure that a range of quality opportunities are provided within the allocated budget.

MAIN PURPOSE

To be responsible for the provision of day opportunities for adults with complex support needs who access the Key Care & Support Community Hub provision. This will entail working with local community opportunities and engaging with voluntary sector partners. It will require close working with the Manager for Community and Outreach Services and when necessary covering that post.

Development of all policies and procedures ensuring they are relevant to the changing environment in day service provision. Lead forums and working groups relevant to service development.

Be responsible for the agreeent of appropriate packages of care and support for each person, including timely reviews. This will entail working closely with individual care management and health teams, carers and other stakeholders. Plans, reviews and opportunities should reflect the agreed Life Plans for each person.

Ensure that a range of appropriate, quality opportunities and therapies are provided ; encourage creative development of new ways of providing these in an environment where resources are limited without detracting from the quality of opportunity provided.

Develop and lead the staff groups through a radical change in how day opportunities are provided; support staff as they work more flexibly and in a person centred way. Encourage and enable collaborative working with volunteers and partner agencies.

Ensure that the available budget for day services is distributed appropriately. Deputise for the Manager of Community and Outreach services as and when required.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Manage teams, including a team of therapists. Be responsible for the deployment of staff to meet person centred needs.

Liaise closely with care management and health teams and any other relevant professionals to ensure packages of care and support are appropriate, value for money, have positive outcomes and are reviewed regularly.

Ensure that person centred reviews are carried out for each person, evaluating their progress and the effectiveness of their programme. Ensure that adequate notice is given and that the appropriate people in the persons network of support are invited.

Ensure that activities and opportunities provided contribute to the overall agreed progression Life plan, and are an enjoyable leisure activity provided in a safe setting.

Lead positively, encourage and manage the use of building space by each user groups. Where necessary resolve conflicts between users, and ensure that where appropriate income is generated from use of the buildings and opportunities created.

Be available, as part of an on-call rota to respond to phone queries of an urgent nature regarding the overall service for Key Care & Support, buildings, and to staff who are working out of hours.

Lead and manage volunteers and staff from other groups who offer support and opportunities to people we support at the Community Hub

Lead on liaising with carers and other advocates.

Be responsible for managing the agreed budget, ensuring that expenditure remains within the set limits.

Ensure that appropriate travel support programmes are in place, and that transport arrangements are implemented safely.

Take overall responsibility for Health and Safety arrangements at Key Care & Support Community Hub.

Be part of the Service Provision Management Team.

Ensure that relevant information is collated and analysed on a regular basis, and provided to corporate colleagues as required.

Oversee an effective Information Centre.

Provide leadership in a learning environment where staff are encouraged to develop; be aware of good practice elsewhere, both locally and nationally.

Ensure that Policies and Procedures are adhered to and that staff are aware of their responsibilities.

Interested? have the relevant experience and looking for a new challenge? then please send your CV.

Please note, if you do not hear back within 2 weeks of submitting your CV, you have not been successful at this time