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Posted 1316 days ago

Join Brandon Trust as a Locality Manager, and develop your social care career. This is a rewarding role which is an opportunity to be autonomous and creative in your approach. You’ll join a collaborative, motivated team of locality managers and provide great leadership to your teams. You'll deliver excellent quality and outcomes for the people we support and you’ll be instrumental in ensuring our high standards are met. You’ll manage between five to six locations in Wandsworth borough with the potential for business growth in other neighbouring boroughs.

Brandon exists to enable children, young people and adults with a learning disability, autism, or both, to live life in the way they choose; we provide high-quality, individualised support to around 1,600 people.

You'll oversee supported living services, helping people with a learning disability, autism or both to achieve a range of outcomes. You’ll have a breadth of experience and skills, as well the ability to network to ensure that your teams have the skills and support they need. An inspirational leader, and a role model for excellent support, you’ll offer direction, support and advice to your teams and coach them to achieve their goals. Providing regular supervision and effectively deploying resources, you’ll ensure that services offer excellent support and care. Managing financial and other resources effectively in-line with budgetary constraints, you’ll ensure we comply with all relevant legislation and quality standards.

You’ll have experience of supporting people with a learning disability, autism or both and of promoting their independence. Along with experience of supporting people with complex needs, those who communicate non-verbally is essential. Your experience in a relevant care manager position will include working across multi-sites. You’ll have appropriate or transferable specialist knowledge; for example NVQ4, RMA or a Registered Professional Qualification. Ideally, you’ll also hold relevant social care and management qualifications. You'll have a flexible and resilient approach and have experience of managing a budget. There is also a requirement to participate in an 'out of hours' on-call rota.

We provide a full induction and a variety of professional development opportunities. There are plenty of training and development opportunities and a range of benefits including shopping discounts, GP helplines and discounted gym membership.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Dawn Dacosta (Area Manager), on 07464 670 622.