Assistant Care Manager – Learning Disability Team – Swindon
£33,945 per annum (Permanent, Full-Time)
Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 from nearly 1,000 reviews, is currently seeking an experienced and compassionate Assistant Care Manager to join the Learning Disability Team in Swindon.
Benefits:
- Generous Leave: 33 days annual leave, including bank holidays, plus an extra day off for your birthday.
- Complimentary Meals and Parking: Enjoy free meals and on-site parking.
- Wellbeing Support: Access to activities and support designed to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
- Career Development: Opportunities for career progression and ongoing training to help you reach your professional goals.
- Pension Contributions: Secure your future with pension plan contributions.
- Life Assurance: Added peace of mind with life assurance coverage.
- Enhanced Maternity Package: Receive an enhanced maternity package to support this special time in your life.
Role Purpose:
As an Assistant Care Manager, you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to assess and support individuals with learning disabilities, ensuring they receive high-quality care and services. You will be responsible for carrying out assessments to identify Care Act eligible needs and ensuring compliance with key legislative frameworks, such as the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Care Act 2014.
You will support service users in promoting their independence by creating effective care plans, providing guidance, and signposting to additional services. You will also play a key role in coordinating services, arranging provision of equipment or minor adaptations, and working closely with health, education, and social care professionals to deliver integrated service delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work within and demonstrate compliance with appropriate legislative frameworks.
- Participate as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, conducting assessments to identify Care Act eligible needs.
- Ensure that the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Care Act 2014 underpin practice.
- Use the care-planning process to identify the most appropriate ways to promote independence for service users.
- Provide advice, information, and signpost to other agencies and support services when necessary.
- Arrange for the provision of services, equipment, and minor adaptations as required.
- Collaborate with social care, health, and education professionals, as well as community resources, to deliver integrated care.
Requirements of the Assistant Care Manager:
- NVQ Level 3 in Care.
- Experience and understanding of working in either a health or social care environment.
- Knowledge of the needs of older people, disabled individuals, and their carers.
- A thorough understanding of the role and needs of informal carers.
- Experience and expertise in care management processes.
- Ability to undertake assessments, identify needs/risks, and produce care plans.
- Understanding of the dynamics and challenges of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to work independently and follow direction when necessary.
- Demonstrates accountability and responsibility in the role, using formal and informal supervision as required.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, to engage effectively with service users, carers, colleagues, and external agencies.
- A good understanding of discrimination and inequality issues.
- Competence in using Information Technology and being computer literate.
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As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
