Deputy Care Home Manager

Deputy Care Home Manager

Service Name: The Croft Care Home

Location: Amersham, Buckinghamshire

Salary: £26,634 PA (before successful completion of probation)

Hours: 38 Hours PW (Weekends and on call included)

Do you want to make a positive difference to people’s lives, enabling them to gain greater independence and improve their well-being? If the answer is yes, read on!

Who are Ambient Support?

Ambient Support, a registered UK charity with over 25 years’ experience in providing care and support services for older people, people with a mental health needs and people with learning disabilities.

Our residential care home, The Croft, is a community-based home for Older People in Amersham. We provide care and support to 60 residents, including up to 31 residents with a higher level of specific dementia care needs. This is a welcoming home from home environment offering regular activities and organised events.

The role of our Deputy Home Manager:

• To attend and sometimes chair staff and the resident’s meetings and to encourage the training of all staff.
• To ensure that infection control standards are maintained.
• To support all staff with care and support-based decisions, thereby aiding their professional development.
• To take responsibility for the implementation of Ambient’s medication policies and procedures in the care facility. To maintain good communication with Pharmacist and local GP Practices.
• To ensure that all staff receive regular supervision, are annually appraised, and provided with a personal development plan.
• To be responsible for monitoring the staff rota, ensuring that annual leave, training, and sickness cover is provided in the most cost-effective way.
• To share with the Home Manager the responsibility for monitoring broad aspects of the management of the home including the supervision and training of care staff.
• To Assist the Manager with the recruitment and deployment of staff with an awareness of Registration requirements.
• To carry out a comprehensive assessment of the person prior to moving into the service
• To ensure that the Service implements a social activity programme, which will be appropriate to people’s needs and reflect their recorded preferences and aspirations.
• To be responsible for making sure that when people move into the service an appropriate Person-Centred Plan is completed and a key worker allocated in partnership with the person using the service.
• To be on call 'out of hours’ as part of a rota system
• To act at all times in accordance with Equal Opportunities legislation with regard to people who we support and staff.
• To participate in and contribute to any other working groups or meetings as required.

Skills and attributes of our Deputy Home Manager:

• At least one year’s experience at team leader or management level, preferably in a care home setting.
• Relevant current care experience.
• Experience of supervising, training, and mentoring staff.
• Demonstrate knowledge of Health & Social Care Act 2008 and CQC Fundamental Standards.
• Competent approach to budgets, petty cash procedures.
• Ability to complete and check monitoring sheets, devise rotas.
• Broad range of care skills for older people living in residential care.
• Activities for older people in care.
• Basic current Health and Safety law including food hygiene and manual handling.
• Able to manage difficult situations effectively.
• Able to priorities and meet deadlines.
• Able to use own initiative.

Becoming part of the Ambient family brings benefits too!

• Flexible working, enabling work-life balance.
• National Living Wage paid regardless of age, including under 25s.
• Training and development
• 'Refer a Friend’ bonus scheme.
• 'Season Ticket’ loan & 'Bike to Work’ scheme.
• Paid holiday with minimum of 28 days holiday, including BH (pro-rata for part time staff)
• Membership of Health Service Discounts scheme
• Free access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme

Do you want to take your first steps towards a new rewarding career? If the answer is yes, then we’d love to hear from you.

We positively welcome diversity of background, ethnicity, skills, talents, and contributions from everyone.

We are committed to Safeguarding. An Enhanced DBS clearance is required for this post. References will be obtained for all roles.