Branch Leader

**Get your New Year Career off your to do list**
**If you have a wealth of experience of working in health & social care and are you looking for a fresh new challenge in a Leadership role,** then we have the perfect role for you
We've got a great opportunity for a motivated and experienced social care manager to join us as **Branch Leader** covering Glasgow & East Dunbartonshire on a **full-time, permanent basis.**
Cornerstone is one of Scotland's largest charities with over 40 years' experience providing care and support for adults and children with various support needs across Scotland.
**The Role**
Working closely with the branch team of Service Leads, Lead Practitioners and frontline colleagues along with support from the Senior Leadership Team and Business Support Leads you will play a key role in supporting with the delivery and implementation of Cornerstone’s Strategic plan.
The main purpose of your role will be to provide effective leadership to your branch, ensuring it meets organisational Key Performance and quality Indicators. You'll be focussed and passionate about the delivery of excellent care in line with us ensuring that we are the expert provider to the people we support. You will always look to maximise local business development opportunities, with key collaborative working partnerships with HSCP’s, housing association and all other MDT’s. In additional you will be first point of contact for referrals and oversee tenancy related matters where appropriate.
**What we'll need you to bring**:

- Experience of working in health & social care, within a management role, while leading a large team.
- Experience of running a local business, branch, region or division, and evidence of working alongside organisational Business partners
- An understanding of empowerment, leadership and coaching versus management and supervision.
- Pertinent business skills such as mobilisation / transitional planning, tender bid writing, presentation, audit, analysis, and reporting,
- Understanding of KPI’s, and the ability to report, audit performance, and implement to the benefit
- Experience of monthly and quarterly reporting to senior leadership team / board members
- Knowledge of the political and strategic environment as it relates to social care.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Demonstrable experience of good financial management, modelling budgets reports and planning
- An understanding of relevant statutory and authoritative regulations and good practice, with demonstrable continuous improvement and collaborative working to achieve improvements
- An understanding of strategic planning, and operational design
- Evidence of value-based practice

**It would be great if you also have;**
- SVQ Level 4 management or equivalent management qualification.
- SVQ Assessor/Verifier award

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £41,263.00-£43,460.00 per year