Registered Service Manager

We are looking for a caring, dynamic and highly motivated Registered Manager to join our established team in Carlisle.

You must be a practitioner with management skills and have experience and knowledge of working within the social care sector in support of people with housing, mental health/ learning disabilities and related needs.

The Registered Manager will lead the operational management of supported accommodation for 7 people we support with learning disabilities and mental health needs in Carlisle (Stanwix area). The role will also involve supporting another Registered Manager for a minimum of one day a week at The Laurels Care Home for Older adults. Your role will be to ensure that the service users receive recovery focused support to ensure they can enjoy their best lives and reach personal outcomes. The role also involves the effective management of risk ensuring risks are assessed and risk management plans are robust and updated.

You will ensure that the care and support delivered is truly personalised and provided in accordance with agreed support plans, enabling service users to enjoy wellbeing, quality of life and develop community connections. You will promote and reinforce an open culture of responsive, person-centered practice and active support across the service, with relationships based on respect and unconditional positive regard. As the Registered Manager you will act as the main point of contact for CQC and ensure compliance with CQC Regulatory standards:

You must be an accomplished manager with extensive experience and knowledge of the social care sector, and the provision of support for individuals with learning disabilities and mental health needs. You must have skills in positive communication and engagement and will be able to demonstrate unconditional positive regard for the people we support. You must be able to write clear assessments, support plans and guidelines and work positively within a consistent, mutually supportive team ethos.

We will expect you to have the networking skills, organisational ability, and vision to deliver excellent outcomes for customers, and to implement initiatives, which connect service users to their local community and promote our reputation. Prior experience as a Registered Manager is not required, but you must be a confident and accountable practitioner, with the ability to put quality standards into practice.

A Car driver is desirable and it is essential to be able to work flexibly on rota to cover evening weekends and bank holidays.

Vacancy Reference Number: 85661

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number.

Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 33 days Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization – Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold award.

Creative Support has a corporate commitment to enabling people with caring and family responsibilities to apply for senior roles, part time applicants will be considered for this role.

Applications are reviewed as they are received, we do not provide feedback for unsuccessful applications. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme, and we are unable to accept applicants with Skilled Worker Visas.