Assistant Service Manager inAberdeen inAberdeen PUBLISHED 5 JUN 2024

Job Type
: Full Time, Permanent


Location:
Aberdeen


Salary:
£26,197 - £30,523 per annum


Hours:
37.5 hours per week

If you are looking for a rewarding career and to work within an epic team that will help you grow and thrive, then you have come to the right place. Working within their Constitution Street service you can start your day knowing what you do really does make a difference!


The Role


Our client is one of Scotlands leading mental health charities, providing a wide range of community based, recovery focussed mental health services. Theyre proud pioneers in the peer movement, with 20% of their colleagues employed in peer support roles. Their creative and forward-thinking approach to mental health recovery has earned them the reputation as a key influencer in public campaigning, policy and practice, and a highly respected provider of high quality and innovative mental health recovery services.

They are looking for you to jointly oversee a block of supported flats, and some people out in their own flats in the local community. The Assistant Service Manager will encourage and motivate the team, but above all; they will support the team to deliver outcomes for the people that they support, which can be something as practical as managing their own tenancy and immediate surroundings, or maybe medication, to making friends and sustaining relationships, or to the extent of supporting someone to look for work or even volunteering opportunities and eventually move into their own tenancy in Aberdeen.


Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Support Manager in the referral/selection process of users of the service.
• Assist in the development, implementation, and monitoring of support plans for all supported people, ensuring that they are involved in decisions about their own support.
• Establish and maintain productive working relationships with other professionals involved in the support of supported people.
• Assist supported people to be involved in decisions affecting them in relation to their own support and the running of the project.
• Assist supported people to participate in occupational and leisure activities.
• Assist in the management of the support team in relation to work, practice, conduct, absence, supervision, support and the identification of training needs.
• A pioneering charity supporting people on their journey to better mental health
• Assist in the induction of new employees and in the recruitment process where required.
• Assist the Service Manager to adequately deploy staff to meet the support needs of supported people.
• Assist in the monitoring and administration of the project budget and accounts.
• Ensure that all financial and other records are maintained accurately, and that all reporting requirements are met in a timely manner.
• Provide direct support to supported people.
• Assist with any further tasks or projects as required.
  
  

Skills And Qualifications

• Well organised,
• Have good communication skills and be adept in either being able to use a hand-held device or computer for recording and reporting.
• You will be expected to work towards the quality standards set by the Care Inspectorate and align with the values set down by the SSSC.
• Registration would be required for both Care at Home and Housing Support and you should already have your SVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent, as defined by the SSSC.
• They are looking for a flexible, enthusiastic individual who is motivated to lead and supervise members of the team, someone who doesnt mind rolling their sleeves up, who has a can do attitude and gets involved on a daily basis.
  
  

Benefits


They can offer you a tonne of employee benefits, and they can promise youll be inspired by some pretty amazing humans every single day.

• Flexible working.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme.
• Employee Discount Scheme with Vivup 100s of lifestyle savings.
• Payroll Pay with Vivup pay monthly available across a variety of options
• including home & electronics, discounted gym memberships and more.
• Death in Service benefits.
• Full training and professional development.
• Refer a friend scheme earn up to £400.
• Salary sacrifice pension.
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service, up to 5 days of annual
• leave after 5 years of service.
  
  

They will support you on your own career path; developing new skills, accessing formal and informal learning experiences and providing opportunities to put your continual progress into practice.


To Apply


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