Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Assistant Care Manager to work in Swindon, Learning Disability Team on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Ward Manager job is £33,945 per annum.
Benefits:
- Generous Leave: 33 days of 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 wellbeing activities and support to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
- Career Development: Opportunities for career growth and training to help you reach your professional goals.
- Pension Contributions: Secure your future with our pension plan contributions.
- Life Assurance: Added peace of mind with life assurance coverage.
- Enhanced Maternity Package: Enjoy an enhanced maternity package to fully embrace this special time in your life.
Role purpose:
- Work within and demonstrate compliance within appropriate legislative frameworks.
- Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, carrying out assessments to identify if an individual has Care Act eligible needs.
- Ensuring that the principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and Care Act 2014 underpin practice.
- Understand and apply Fair Access to Care Services eligibility criteria.
- Use the care-planning process to identify the most appropriate way to promote independence
- Provide advice, information and signpost to other agencies/ support services as appropriate, in creating a care plan.
- Arrange for provision of services, equipment/ minor adaptations as appropriate
- Working within an integrated approach to service delivery with other social care, health and education professionals, other agencies and the full range of community resources.
Requirements of the Assistant Care Manager:
- NVQ in Care Level 3
- Have an understanding of the work, in either a health or social care environment.
- Have an understanding, of the needs of older people, disabled people, and their carers.
- Have a good understanding of the role and needs of informal carers.
- Have developed a breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of the care management process.
- Demonstrate the ability to undertake assessments, identify needs/ risks and produce care plans.
- Understand and identify the benefits and challenges, in relation to working in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Able to work effectively using own initiative, as well as following directions.
- Recognise the need for accountability and responsibility in relation to the role and make appropriate use of informal and formal supervisions and case discussion when required.
- Recognise own limitations and seek advice when needed.
- Possess good communication skills both orally and written, in order to communicate effectively with service users/ carers, colleagues and other agencies.
- Have a good understanding of issues relating to discrimination and inequality.
- Use Information technology and be computer literate.
Contact:
This Assistant Care Manager job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
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.
