Service Manager

2 weeks ago

London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom Look Ahead Care Support and Housing Full time

We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Service Manager to join our learning disabilities service in Tower Hamlets.

£36,000.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.

Want to feel like you're making a difference? You'll feel at home here.

As Registered Service Manager (RSM) you will be responsible for ensuring your service is well led, maintains high quality standards, is financially robust and that your staff team are well developed and motivated.

This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation.

What you'll do:

Leadership Accountabilities:

Ensure the PBS framework is imbedded in service delivery with ongoing staff competency assessment and training

Successfully lead and motivate your team to ensure the championing and ongoing maintenance of a positive performance culture within your service.
Responsible for ensuring your service is well led, that customers are safeguarded against harm or abuse, and that your team delivers person centred support according to each customer's individual requirements.
Work to continuously improve staff competence, ensure ownership of all staff issues and speedy and effective conflict resolution - this includes but is not limited to staff supervision, coaching, team meetings, reflective practice and training.
Responsible for reporting all staff changes to HR and Payroll departments, as appropriate e.g. starters, leavers, additional hours etc.

Drive business planning activities within your contract, ensuring relevant and challenging objectives are set and ongoing performance tracking, implementing improvement action plans as necessary.
Using sound financial and accounting principles, manage contract budgets to deliver on corporate and local contract financial targets.
Develop key business relationships with all relevant customers/families and external parties to ensure service delivery excellence.
Have sound knowledge of the customers living in the service and be able to promote their wellbeing and quality of life.
Responsible for housing and property compliance in area of responsibility.
Plan, organise and prioritise operations within your service to ensure maximum efficiencies/utilisation of all resources.
Working with your team, lead creative and ambitious customer involvement plans across the patch and ensure successful implementation of programme of activities relevant to what individual customers want.
Lead CQC inspections and Look Ahead quality visits, using Look Ahead's local indicators and your Power BI Dashboard to monitor quality/performance, set targets to ensure high rated services that reflect requirements of local funders and local and national standards.

For the full list please see our website.

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead


About you:

Have extensive leadership and CRM experience
Will be familiar with PBS Framework/Capable Environments
Have the ability to motivate staff to deliver excellent services
Be fundamentally calm and resilient, will not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
Be practical and methodical

For the full list please see our website

What you'll bring:

Essential:

Knowledge of Safeguarding, MHA, DOLs, MCA and regulatory frameworks
Understanding and experience with CQC inspection framework and regulations
Educated to degree level or equivalent
Will complete Look Aheads minimum competency training
Experience of managing contracts and resources and delivering to budget and performance targets
Experience of delivering to housing management performance targets
Experience of effectively managing and developing staff to ensure delivery of services performance targets within contract
Experience of successfully managing external partnerships to ensure successful delivery of services

For the full list please see our website.

Desirable:

Other relevant professional memberships and/or specialist qualifications
Holds relevant Health and Social Care management qualification - eg QCF Level 5

About us:

Look Ahead is a dynamic, leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. As an organisation we deliver over 110 services, providing support to around 7000 customers each year. We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.

Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.

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