This senior post in Harrow Council's Adults and Public Health Directorate sits on the local management team of a day services Hub and is contracted for 36 hours. The role centres on leading Hub staff teams and enabling adults to use day centre and community activities, including work where possible, while supporting personal care with dignity. It involves supporting people with challenging behaviour and managing staff through significant change. Experience in a learning or physical disability setting is required.
What the job involves
- Act as a member of the local management team, stabilising and influencing and modelling good practice
- Support, encourage and assist in leading the Hub staff teams to perform at their best
- Enable people to access day centre and community opportunities, including work wherever possible
- Offer choice and empower people to live as independently as possible
- Support individuals with personal care and hygiene needs as required
- Respect the privacy and dignity of people at all times
- Ensure services are delivered in an anti-discriminatory manner in line with the protected characteristics
What’s required
Experience
- Previous experience working in a learning or physical disability setting
- Experience of working with challenging behaviour
- Experience of managing staff through significant change
Skills & knowledge
- Ability to move and handle people
- Knowledge of current relevant social care legislation
- Strong verbal communication and a good standard of written English
- Supervisory, mentoring and leadership skills
- Flexibility to support the changing needs of the service
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
