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**Deputy Manager**
**Location**: Lambeth Living Well Centre
**Application Deadline**: 08 January 2023
**Salary**: £26,769 per annum
**Region**: Lambeth
**Job Summary**
An exciting opportunity to join Certitude as a Deputy Manager as we continue to grow as a Social Care provider in London.

**Salary**: £26,769 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours

**Job Type**: Permanent
Service: Mental Health
Location: Lambeth Cluster - (Living Well Centre)

**Benefits**:

- A stimulating work environment full of opportunities to learn and develop
- 25 days’ annual leave + bank holidays & enrolment onto a pension scheme
- 24-hour Employee Assistance
- Paid Enhanced DBS
- Eye care vouchers & Perkbox (employee benefits platform - for wellbeing and discounts)
- Travel season ticket loan & Cycle to work Scheme (eligible after 1 years’ service)
**About the role**
The role of a Deputy Manager is to provide leadership, development and direction across the service ensuring that the team provides the people we support with the service they need to lead a good life and achieve the things that are important to them and theirfamilies.
Duties will include:

- Build great relationships with the people we support and the people important in their lives (families, other staff, and external professionals). Know their skills, interests, qualities, strengths, challenges, ways of communicating and aspirations and ensurethe individualized service they receive plays to their strengths; helps them tackle their challenges and achieve their goals.
- Ensure all the plans and records relating to people are accurate and up to date using respectful language which allows people to see what progress is being made against goals; track areas of concern (e.g. health) and take action as agreed.
- To develop and implement individual Quality of Life plans that focus on individuals’ preferences and needs and maximise and maintain their personal independence all the while promoting rights, autonomy and choices.
- Work in a consistent and positive way with local managers and other team members to ensure people get a great service from the whole team at any time. Ensure all organisation policies and specific agreed ways of working in the service are followed e.g. thatspecific support plans are being followed up, that medication processes are being adhered to, that health and safety practices are carried out.
- Supervise, coach and train colleagues in person centred support practices, giving and acting on received feedback on what is going well and what is not going well.
- To use information technology (including a computer) to undertake a range of administrative tasks and to follow procedural guidelines and complete appropriate documentation in required formats and to compile detailed written reports and be able to communicateclearly to people we support, employees and other professionals all the while understanding the nature of confidentiality.
**About you**
To be a Deputy Manager at Certitude, the following are essential**:

- Experience of supporting people who have mental health needs or learning disabilities to become more active in their community
- Experience of mentoring/supervising/coaching others
- Person centred working & developing person centred support plans with individuals
- Knowledge of safeguarding
- A good communicator (written and verbal) and listener, someone who can communicate well with different people and can clearly get their ideas across in writing and verbally
- Able to organise self and others to get things done with a high level of attention to detail**
**About the Organisation**
At the Certitude Group, we are proud of our history of supporting people with complex mental health needs and learning disabilities. We support more than 1,800 people across London through a diverse range of support services and believe in providing the rightlevel of support, to enable individuals to flourish, contribute and live a good life.
We have high employee engagement and a strong commitment to people development from both our Board and Leadership Team. As a result, we can support people with mental health needs and learning disabilities to live the life they want to lead; happy, healthy,respected as equals and valued for their contribution within communities.
We aim to be the best social care employer in London and are proud of our reputation as a London employer - employing more than a 1,500 staff and volunteers with a turnover of £48m.
**Our Values**:

- Working Together
- Continuously Improving
- Inspired by People
- Trustworthy & Dependable
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