Deputy Manager

Deputy Enablement Manager

Location: Southampton

Hours per week: 42 hours per week

Salary: £17.34 per hour, overtime paid at the Enablement Practitioner rate of £15.38 per hour and sleep-ins paid @ £90 per sleep

Employment Type: Permanent

Must be a driver with access to their own vehicle

Whilst PBS4 holds a sponsorship license, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to any new applicants to PBS4.

About the role

We are looking for a passionate, resilient, and highly experienced Assistant Enablement Manager to join our team in Hampshire, to enable the individual we support to live the life they want and deserve.

This is a highly specialist position and you must have significant experience of supporting individuals who present with high levels of physically challenging behaviour. The individual is supported on a 3:1 support ratio at any given time (24 hours per day). You will be experienced at supporting, developing and motivating teams who have worked with individuals presenting with similar challenges and experiences in life, and you will be passionate and creative about getting things right and not afraid to advocate.

An Assistant Enablement Manager will work with the Enablement Manager to ensure we provide high-quality support in a person-centred way to the people we support.

The Assistant Enablement Manager will:

Work 39 hours on rota directly supporting the people we support as well as provide coaching and mentoring to our teams of Enablement Practitioners. This will include working across all shift patterns including days, nights, evenings, weekends, sleep-ins and being on-call.

Work 3 hours per week off rota ensuring our quality assurance processes are met, and upskilling the teams, completing supervisions, probations, and appraisals, debriefs and welfare checks, delivering training, reviewing paperwork, supporting with transitions, providing a buddy system to other management teams, and generally supporting the Manager to effectively manage the teams in that geographical area.

This split of time is flexible and will be dependent on the needs of the people we support, our teams and our business needs. It maybe you have 6 hours admin in week one and zero hours the next week, as an example.

You'll act as a role model and mentor to the team and facilitate the use of collaborative working and creative solutions to enable both them and the people, we support to achieve individual goals and develop. Working in partnership with the people we support, their family, our specialist support teams and external agencies you'll champion interactions, person-centred planning and implement support plans that improve the quality of everyday life for those we support.

Why work for us

• Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued

• Have support from an experienced management and clinical team

• Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support

• Have training opportunities that enhance your career development

Benefits include 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1 year anniversary with PBS4, in-house paid induction training followed by 12 weeks blended e-learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme and access to various other benefits through our Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and get £300 for every successful person you refer.

About PBS4

PBS4 is a values led social care organisation, providing Neurodisability Services to individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism and/or behaviours that may challenge. We support people living in their own homes, with their own tenancies, and we utilise Positive Behaviour Support as the framework for the support we provide.

We are a medium-sized organisation supporting people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Somerset, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of around 350 employees and rapidly growing.

The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social care

PBS4 provides support to enable people with learning disabilities and challenging behaviour to have independent lives and to live in their own home. Our approach is underpinned by Positive Behaviour Support. Positive Behaviour Support is an approach mostly used to support people with learning disabilities whose behaviours challenge others. The goal is to shift the focus away from reducing challenging behaviour to understanding what that behaviour means and supporting people to get what they need better.