About this role
Job summary Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can really make a difference? Are you an experienced care professional looking for a change? Come and join the Agincare family as a Supported Living Registered Manager covering Taunton, Chard and Frome! Essential Skills: A minimum of 12 months on your right to work in the UK Management qualification at QCF level 4 or equivalent or a willingness to work towards this qualification QCF level 4 or higher in Health & Social Care or equivalent Previous care experience within the Learning Disability sector. Demonstrable knowledge of the care sector including the running of supported living homes and regulatory framework Excellent leadership and management skills Experience of working with vulnerable client groups Desirable Skills: Previous CQC registration in a residential service preferable A day in the life of a Registered Manager As the Registered Manager, you will head the team to provide a safe, caring, responsive and effective service for the residents in your care home,
Main duties of the job Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can really make a difference? Are you an experienced care professional looking for a change? Come and join the Agincare family as a Supported Living Registered Manager covering Taunton, Chard and Frome! Essential Skills include a minimum of 12 months on your right to work in the UK, management qualification at QCF level 4 or equivalent, and previous care experience within the Learning Disability sector. As the Registered Manager, responsibilities include ensuring a safe service for residents, compliance with CQC regulations, and meeting operational and quality assurance KPI's. You'll ensure residents understand their care options, review care provision, ensure auditing, and have effective risk assessments. Responsibilities also include staff induction, training, and supervision, handling disciplinary actions, staffing your home effectively, and investigating complaints.
About us Agincare is proudly celebrating 40 years of caring for communities. As a rapidly growing, family-owned care provider with more than 5,500 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of our new not-for-profit Childrens Services. Today, Agincare is one of the UKs largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care, supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locations nationwide. As a signatory of the Care Leaver Covenant, Agincare is committed to supporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation. They are proud to support the Armed Forces community through their alliance, offering guaranteed interviews to service leavers and members of the military community. Agincare is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
Job description Job responsibilities
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can really make a difference? Are you an experienced care professional looking for a change?
Come and join the Agincare family as aSupportedLiving Registered Manager covering Taunton, Chard and Frome!
Essential Skills:
A minimum of 12 months on your right to work in the UK Management qualification at QCF level 4 or equivalent or a willingness to work towards this qualification QCF level 4 or higher in Health & Social Care or equivalent Previous care experience within the Learning Disability sector. Demonstrable knowledge of the care sector including the running of supported living homes and regulatory framework Excellent leadership and management skills Experience of working with vulnerable client groupsDesirable Skills:
Previous CQC registration in a residential service preferableA day in the life of a Registered Manager
As the Registered Manager, you will head the team to provide a safe, caring, responsive and effective service for the residents in your care home, ensuring delivery of the highest possible care standards fully compliant with all CQC statutory regulations, whilst making sure you achieve your operational and quality assurance KPI's. You will be based from our office in Castle street, Taunton with regular visits to services in Taunton, Frome and Chard.
Your day to day responsibilities therefore will include:
Ensuring all your residents understand the care and treatment choices that are available to them and that the care is provided in a way that promotes choice, dignity and individuality Reviewing existing care provision to ensure it meets the current physical and mental health needs of your residents and in turn liaising with the residents, internal staff, health professionals, social workers and other interested parties to adapt existing plans to meet current needs Ensuring that auditing is carried out to fully understand that quality of the service being provided and taking quick reparative action if any concerns are raised Ensuring that effective risk assessments are in place to protect the needs of your residents and the overall safety of your home. Inducting new staff, and ensuring that existing staff are regularly trained, motivated, supervised and supported. Carrying out any potential disciplinary or formative action against team members as and when required. Effectively staffing your home to ensure that personnel can cover the needs of your residents and having effective contingency plans in case of unexpected absence or events. Investigating any complaints surrounding safeguarding, abuse, or delivery of your services and ensuring notifications and duty of candour are sent to the right parties.As an Agincare employee you'll enjoy
Refer a friend scheme - earn up to £1000* Outstanding career development Fully funded training up to QCF level 5 Blue Light care discount package Company pension schemeAbout Agincare
Agincare is proudly celebrating 40years of caring for communities. As a rapidly growing, family-owned care provider with more than 5,500 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of our new not-for-profit Childrens Services. Today, Agincare is one of the UKs largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care, supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locations nationwide.
As a signatory of the Care Leaver Covenant, we are committed tosupporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation. We are proud to support the Armed Forces community through our alliance,offering guaranteed interviewsto service leavers and members of the military community.
All of our services are regulated by the CQCand Agincare is proud to be anequal opportunities employerand encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.At present, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.
As care is always in high demand, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities available. If this particular role isnt the right fit for you, we encourage you to explore our other vacancies,www.agincare.com/careers
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Management qualification at QCF level 4 or equivalent, QCF level 4 or higher in Health & Social Care or equivalent
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Agincare
Address Enable
Taunton
TA1 4AS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.agincare.com/ (Opens in a new tab)