FEMALE Assistant Service Manager - Bangor, Gwynedd

Role: Female Assistant Service Manager

Hours: Full time 37 hours per week, this will involve 30 hours of hands on care with 7 hours management. Your shift pattern will include weekends and sleep-ins

Salary: £27,224pa and our sleep-in shifts at £60 per night and our travel expenses is paid 45p per mile

Contract:  Permanent

Interviews: TBC 10th and 11th November

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What you’ll be doing:

In this role you’ll be working alongside the Service Manager to ensure a safe and caring service for the people we support and our colleagues. To do this successfully, you’ll be visible in the day-to-day operation of the service supporting duties in line with the requirements of the people we support. You’ll be working shifts on a rota basis which may include sleep ins. In the absence of the Service Manager, you'll have responsibility for the day to day running of the service. This will involve providing leadership and management to the team, monitoring performance, carrying out one to one’s and appraisals and holding team meetings.

You’ll enjoy building positive relationships with all stakeholders and put our vision and values into action to deliver a first-class service. Above all else, your focus will be on achieving the highest levels of independence for the people we support, and on organising and modelling that support in an innovative, person-centred and flexible way to make everyday remarkable.

Please note personal care is involved in this role.

Who we are looking for:

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

experience supporting people with learning difficulties in a social care setting
Level 3 in Health and Social Care (or actively working towards)
a strong caring nature to support others to live an enriched life and fulfil their potential
a working knowledge and understanding of the Care Council for Wales Code of Practice
flexibility to work shifts and provide cover as required
a full driving licence - essential  and happy to travel for meetings and training
access to your own car and happy to use this for transporting people we support to and from activities as well as obtaining business insurance for your vehicle for which we pay 45p per mile to cover this
Welsh language skills (prefered not essential) so you can effectively communicate with Welsh-speaking service users and meet their cultural and linguistic needs.
Our Benefits

Excellent training and development opportunities to achieve qualifications
25 days annual leave rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service with the option to buy and sell leave
Benevolent Fund, confidential financial wellbeing resource available to our colleagues
Health and Wellbeing programme - 24 hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
Refer a Friend - Referral Programme
Company pension
Cycle to work scheme
Benefits and discount platform
Eligibility for Blue Light discount card
And much much more…..
About Us
Our mission is to build a better future by focusing on people with learning disabilities and their families. We strive to be a great support provider for the individuals and families that we support, our employees, our partners and funders, and the communities in which we work. We’re a Cooperative, which means putting people at the heart of our decision making and support. You can find out more about this here

Our Values
We’ve made a promise to the people we support, setting out our commitments to them and how they can expect to be supported, our values include:

Honesty
Trust
Kindness
Respect
Wellbeing

Please note we reserve the right to close this advert early so we would encourage you to apply early for this position.

Due to the personal care needs of the people we support, this role is exempt under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2)(e) of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, and is therefore open to female applicants only.