Registered Care Manager - Stoke on Trent, Hanley DCA

Salary £(phone number removed) to £(phone number removed)

Service Locations - Stoke on Trent, Hanley, Newcastle under Lyme and Festival Park

CareTech is a person-centred Care Company, which provides quality of care to adults. We enable adults with complex needs to make their own life choices, and to develop confidence and independence to live, learn, thrive and engage, building a better future.

We refer to this as Extraordinary Days, Every Day.

*£500 Recommend A Friend Bonus

We have an exciting opportunity to join CareTech as a Registered Care Manager in Stoke on Trent. Our service, supports people with autism, learning disabilities, mental health illness and neurological conditions up and down the UK. We want people to live as independently as possible and to continue to offer that outstanding level of support we need people like you to join us and help to improve the lives of our service users. You will be responsible for enriching people’s lives, enjoy having a positive impact on their wellbeing and take pride in knowing you are a part of something bigger.

Purpose of the job:

To provide effective leadership in the delivery of a professional service which not only provides a safe and supportive environment but is also dedicated to a personalised approach in supporting individuals to develop the skills required to be as independent as possible

Registered Care Manager Responsibilities 

• Promote and work to the company’s values which are; Positive, Empowering, Innovative, Friendly and Person-Centred
• Achieve and maintain registration with CQC
• Management of staff to include recruitment, induction, retention, supervision, appraisal, training, attendance management, following any disciplinary procedures
• Managing staff allocation to meet the needs of the service and ensure continued quality of service provision
• Manage relationships with external professionals including local commissioning teams, social workers and community teams
• Manage relationships with families of individuals that we support
• Maintain financial viability of the service that you manage and build a strong commercial platform for growth
• Ensure that a person centred approach working ethos is central to the service
• Ensure a creative and problem solving approach to ensure timely response to multi-site management issues
• Adhere to local safeguarding and regulatory guidelines

Key Skills

• Hold Health & Social Care Level 3 Adults
• Hold or working towards Level 5 Leadership and Management (Social Care)
• Excellent Communication Skills 
• Internal and External Stakeholder Relations 
• Experience of Leading a Large Social Care Team 
• Experience within a Supported Living Environment 
• Driver with own transport, due to the nature of the job role and service locations

Company Values

• Friendly, passionate and caring nature
• Positive, pleasant and approachable
• Empowering others to develop and live fulfilling lives
• Person Centred, allowing our children to explore & utilise their own strengths
• Innovative, by using or showing new methods and ideas

Rewards & Benefits

• Full Time Contract 
• *£500 Recommend A Friend Bonus
• Up to 28 Days Holiday
• Full induction programme to Care Certificate Standards
• Dedicated learning & development programmes
• We provide free training to achieve qualification in Social Care
• Access to a wide range of free online courses for all staff on a variety of topics for self-development of your career
• Free DBS Check
• Stakeholder Pension
• Free Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual Employee Awards Evening
• Employee Recognition Schemes
• Career progression within the company
• CareTech Foundation – Opportunity to apply for family and friend’s grants

Successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS disclosure prior to commencement of employment, the disclosure expense will be met by the employer.

You may be aware of new regulations, which require that anyone entering a CQC-regulated care home in England to be fully vaccinated subject to certai