Assistant Enablement Manager Southampton, England
Job description
Assistant Enablement Manager
Location: Southampton, Hampshire
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £37,380 (based on a 37.5-hour contract @ £17 per hour, plus 1 sleep-in per week), overtime paid at Enablement Practitioner rate of £15 per hour and sleep-ins paid @ £90 per sleep.
Employment Type: Permanent
Must be a driver with access to their own vehicle.
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About the role
We are looking for a passionate, resilient, and highly experienced Assistant Enablement Manager to join our team in Hampshire, to enable the people we support to live the life they deserve.
This is a highly specialist position and you must have significant experience of supporting individuals who present with high levels of physically challenging behaviour. You will be passionate about supporting adolescent teenage females and the challenges that can present for them and for you, enabling them to live the life they deserve. The individuals being supported are at high risk of placement breakdown and are supported on a 4:1 support ratio at any given time 24 hours per day. You will be experienced at supporting, developing and motivating teams who work with the individuals we support. You will be passionate and creative about getting things right and not afraid to advocate. Resilience is key within this role.
An Assistant Enablement Manager will work with the Enablement Manager to ensure we provide high-quality support in a person-centred way to the people we support.
The Assistant Enablement Manager will:
- Work 50% on rota directly supporting the people we support as well as provide coaching and mentoring to our teams of Enablement Practitioners. This will include working across all shift patterns including days, nights, evenings, weekends, sleep-ins and being on-call.
- For the other 50% of the time be working off rota ensuring our quality assurance processes are met, and upskilling the teams, completing supervisions, probations and appraisals, debriefs and welfare checks, delivering training, reviewing paperwork, supporting with transitions, providing a buddy system to other management teams, and generally supporting the Manager to effectively manage the teams in that geographical area.
This split of time is flexible and will be dependent on the needs of the people we support, our teams and our business needs.
You'll act as a role model and mentor to the team and facilitate the use of collaborative working and creative solutions to enable both them and the people we support to achieve individual goals and develop. Working in partnership with the people we support, their family, our specialist support teams and external agencies you'll champion interactions, person-centred planning and implement support plans that improve the quality of everyday life for those we support.
Why work for us
- Work for a small not for profit organisation where the focus is the people we support
- Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued
- Have support from an experienced management and clinical team
- Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support
- Have training opportunities that enhance your career development
Benefits include 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1 year anniversary with PBS4, in-house paid induction training followed by 12 weeks blended e-learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme and access to various other benefits through our Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and get £300 for every successful person you refer.
About PBS4
We are a not for profit and social enterprise support provider for adults and young adults who have learning disabilities and/or autism. We support people to live in their own homes, with their own tenancies and our model of support is a practice called Positive Behaviour Support. Our CEO Jonathan Beebee is a registered Learning Disabilities Nurse and qualified Behaviour Analyst. We are a medium-sized organisation supporting 35 people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of just over 200.
Be the change!
People with learning disabilities should have the same right to an ordinary life as anyone else. They need support from people like you to help them achieve this. If you are passionate about helping people to achieve the life they deserve and thrive of seeing others succeed then a career with PBS4 is the career for you. We value experience in supporting others, but we warmly welcome people without experience who share our values.
We want to create new ways of working, led by passion and drive for doing what is right, and promote innovation from our teams. Join us on our mission to disrupt social care!
- "Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010"
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £37,380.00 per year
