Job summary
Are you passionate about empowering vulnerable adults and helping them lead independent, safe, and dignified lives? If so, this is the opportunity youve been waiting for!
Main duties of the job
Your key responsibilities will include:
Acting as CQC Registered Manager, ensuring full compliance with regulatory, safeguarding and legislative requirements
Providing visible, approachable leadership across a 7day operational service
Leading service performance, quality assurance and continuous improvement
Managing a substantial devolved budget and resources, ensuring value for money and sustainability
Driving the strategic and operational delivery of reablement and prevention, improving outcomes for residents
Leading and developing staff through supervision, appraisal, coaching and change management
Working collaboratively with health colleagues, partners and internal teams to strengthen integrated working and system flow
Responding professionally to complaints, Member and MP enquiries, and service escalation
About us
Sandwell is situated at the very heart of the West Midlands,
just a stones throw from Birmingham. A large, diverse, metropolitan borough,
Sandwell offers exciting opportunities for all in a friendly, supportive
environment. Sandwell is made up of six towns - Oldbury, Rowley Regis,
Smethwick, Tipton, Wednesbury and West Bromwich. The borough has 1,200 hectares
of parks, playing fields and local green space and more than 30 miles of
canals.
We offer something for everyone, with an incredibly wide
range of career opportunities, at any stage of your career, from apprentices to
senior managers.
Our Values; Trust, Unity and Progress make us unique, they
define how we do things and are reflected in the way we behave. They are
important to us, guiding and shaping our organisational culture. Our values are
key to us achieving Sandwells Vision 2030 and also guide us when we recruit.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you passionate about empowering vulnerable adults and helping them lead independent, safe, and dignified lives.
If so, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for! Join us and be part of a team that truly values your contribution to transforming lives in our community. At Sandwell Council, our work is shaped by our One Team values being customer focused, inclusive, ambitious and accountable, working together to achieve great results for our residents.
This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced CQC Registered Manager to lead a high profile Short Term Assessment and Reablement service that supports people to live independently, recover safely at home, and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.
You will be trusted to lead with integrity, courage and professionalism making decisions that balance compassion with accountability, and ambition with realism while setting the tone for how the Council delivers reablement services across the borough.
About the Role
STAR is Sandwell MBCs inhouse Short Term Assessment and Reablement service, operating at the heart of the Discharge to Assess system and supporting adults in their own homes at critical points in their lives.
This is a CQC regulated service, and you will act as the Registered Manager, with accountability for quality, safety, standards and performance.
In line with Sandwells' ambitious improvement journey, you will act as the operational and professional lead for reablement, ensuring services are outcome focused, inclusive and continuously improving, while remaining financially and operationally accountable.
What You'll Do
You will lead a large, diverse workforce including Deputy Managers, Reablement Supervisors, Trusted Assessors, Schedulers, Senior Home Support Assistants and Home Support Assistants, creating a culture where people feel valued, supported and empowered to do their best work reflecting Sandwells' One Team approach.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are you passionate about empowering vulnerable adults and helping them lead independent, safe, and dignified lives.
If so, this is the opportunity you've been waiting for! Join us and be part of a team that truly values your contribution to transforming lives in our community. At Sandwell Council, our work is shaped by our One Team values being customer focused, inclusive, ambitious and accountable, working together to achieve great results for our residents.
This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced CQC Registered Manager to lead a high profile Short Term Assessment and Reablement service that supports people to live independently, recover safely at home, and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.
You will be trusted to lead with integrity, courage and professionalism making decisions that balance compassion with accountability, and ambition with realism while setting the tone for how the Council delivers reablement services across the borough.
About the Role
STAR is Sandwell MBCs inhouse Short Term Assessment and Reablement service, operating at the heart of the Discharge to Assess system and supporting adults in their own homes at critical points in their lives.
This is a CQC regulated service, and you will act as the Registered Manager, with accountability for quality, safety, standards and performance.
In line with Sandwells' ambitious improvement journey, you will act as the operational and professional lead for reablement, ensuring services are outcome focused, inclusive and continuously improving, while remaining financially and operationally accountable.
What You'll Do
You will lead a large, diverse workforce including Deputy Managers, Reablement Supervisors, Trusted Assessors, Schedulers, Senior Home Support Assistants and Home Support Assistants, creating a culture where people feel valued, supported and empowered to do their best work reflecting Sandwells' One Team approach.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional qualification at degree level and/or NVQ Level 4 (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience in adult social care, ideally within reablement, intermediate care or community services
- Current or previous experience as a CQC Registered Manager
- Strong experience of performance management, workforce leadership and service improvement
- Proven ability to manage budgets, resources and competing priorities
- A collaborative, inclusive leadership style combined with the confidence to challenge and drive improvement
- A clear commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and to delivering respectful, dignified services
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A professional qualification at degree level and/or NVQ Level 4 (or equivalent)
Experience
Essential
- Significant post qualification experience in adult social care, ideally within reablement, intermediate care or community services
- Current or previous experience as a CQC Registered Manager
- Strong experience of performance management, workforce leadership and service improvement
- Proven ability to manage budgets, resources and competing priorities
- A collaborative, inclusive leadership style combined with the confidence to challenge and drive improvement
- A clear commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, and to delivering respectful, dignified services
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
