Job Description

Looking for your next move within social care? Want to work for an award-winning charity who support people with learning disabilities?
You'll lead a team of 12 Support Workers, encouraging and mentoring them, completing supervisions and appraisals and ensuring staff have all the training and resources they need for their own development and to make positive impact on the people supported at The Cherries. You'll work with your team to keep support fresh, creative and genuinely person-centred. This is a very varied role with exciting plans for growth.
You'll be based at our registered care home in Flackwell Heath (near High Wycombe) where you will be supporting 6 adults with learning disabilities. Together, we've created a family atmosphere and the people we support are very involved with the local community and are welcomed to local events and activities. All the people we support like to take an active role in their lives and have built great relationships and friendships within their community and social groups.
James* likes to walk to the shop and get his paper in the mornings, he likes to take himself for lunch on a Monday at the village cafe, he also enjoys his weekly job at the local charity shop. He appreciates his conversations with the staff team about how his day has been and who he has seen in the village.
Bill* has a creative side, he has a love of lights and lampshades, he loves to be supported to the shops to buy his lampshades, so he can personalise his own bedroom. Bill likes to have lots of interactions with the frontline manager and regularly goes into the office to show them his items and engage in conversation.
John* Loves a beer at the local pub, if there are any music events happening, John is the one to support to them, he loves music, louder the better. He is also very sensory and is amazing at building Lego.
Everyone likes to be a part of in-house activities from cooking to arts and crafts, music sessions and much more.
The people we support have all been here for a number of years and have created a family feel within their home environment. They love to celebrate all occasions: every day is a party. They are looking for a fun, person centred frontline Manager to join their dedicated staff team, who will be hands on in encouraging and motivating the staff to give great support every day, supporting everyone who lives at The Cherries to achieve their ambitions, and creating more opportunities which will have a positive impact on everyone's wellbeing and choices.
Of course there will also be more practical details to your role such as overseeing the rota, completing risk assessments and support plans. You will be an integral part of the management team ensuring the site is fully compliant with all regulatory requirements as well as internal processes.
You'll develop constructive relationships with external professionals, social work teams, families, and the local community. You'll also encourage and mentor your team, completing supervisions and appraisals where you can support staff with their own career development, which in turn will create positive outcomes for the people we support.
*Names changed to protect privacy
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What we need from you
You will have experience of supporting vulnerable people, ideally those with a learning disability. You will have managed a team.
You'll be creative in your thinking and your approach to staff, the people we support and their families, able to inspire and motivate.
You'll need to be well-organised, with a good understanding of budgeting, and be IT-literate.
You must be a driver with your own transport, as you will travel regularly between services in the area, as well as to meetings, conferences and training.
About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.
We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since.
We celebrate and develop everyone's unique gifts, talents and contributions.
Pay and Rewards
We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme - MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)

Training and Development
At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.
But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Area Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.
How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.
We will get back to you whether or not you have been shortlisted successfully.
Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement
MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.
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