Deputy Manager

Description:

Deputy Manager – Care Home

Diss, Norfolk

Up to £28,860

I am looking for an experienced Deputy Manager to work in a beautiful home which is a former manor house and provides an elegant and peaceful setting for residential and dementia care. The home, set in extensive gardens, has been beautifully decorated and furnished to respect the historic building. The service is home to 53 residents needing residential and dementia care.

In this post you will:

* Assist in managing operations within the home in order to reach or exceed goals while assuring the provision of high-quality care

* Be in charge of overseeing the care staff and will assume full management in the event that the Home Manager is not present

* Assist in training and supervising care staff in all facets of their work

* Help the Home Manager with pre-admission assessments of residents, ensuring that each resident's care plan and daily records are kept up to date

* Foster effective communication with the residents' families and other organisations

For this great post you will need:

* Previous Deputy Home Manager experience

* The ability to engage with the service users to understand their needs in order to provide excellent services of care

* A good working knowledge of CQC standards

* The ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with external care professionals, families, visitors and staffing team

* The ability to promote ownership of care programs by fully involving service users and their families in developing, agreeing and evaluating care programs within the home

In return you will receive:

* Comprehensive induction programme

* Further training and career progression

* 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)

* Private medical cover

* 24 hour Employee Assistance Programme

* Cost of DBS covered

For more information on this role, please call Elite Care on (phone number removed)