Project Manager - Muirfield Place Outreach Service
- Full time
- £31,500 – £33,500
- Muirfield Place Outreach Service – Kilwinning, North Ayrshire
- Closing 8th March 2023
- Advertised from 22nd February 2023
- Salary depending on qualification. 38 hours per week. Permanent.
- Job Reference: REQ00530
Role
Do you want to make a difference by helping us to improve lives?
Can you be a great manager and lead, motivate and inspire your team to deliver excellent services?
Then why not join our fantastic organisation and be part of a first-class team delivering quality care and support.
Here at The Mungo Foundation, we are proud to be one of the most diverse providers of social care and support for vulnerable people in Glasgow, West Central Scotland and beyond. At any one time across our fantastic projects, we are supporting up to 1,500 individuals, their families and communities, helping them to live better lives.
Our Muirfield Outreach Service based in the Kilwinning area of North Ayrshire, is a dedicated outreach service designed for children and young people with additional support needs in North and East Ayrshire.
We are looking to recruit a Project Manager who can manage and lead this well-established service. You will ensure dynamic and effective leadership of the team to deliver exceptional care and support to individuals to achieve personal outcomes.
You must have excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as a high level of interpersonal skills with the ability to engage at all levels. You will be accountable for managing your own workload and leading the staff team to ensure the service delivers a high-quality, person-centred service to all individuals that we support. You will be responsible for managing all aspects of the service including budgets, People and contractual matters. A good knowledge of IT including MS Office 365 is essential for this role.
Previous line management experience is essential along with an in-depth knowledge of child learning disability services and the GIRFEC approach. If you have a proven track record in leading a team and supporting individuals to achieve individual outcomes this will be the right opportunity for you.
You must possess a minimum of SVQ4 Social Services and Healthcare (SQCF Level 9 - practice) qualification or equivalent. Candidates must also have or be willing to work towards an award in management that is certificated at or above SCQF Level 9 (minimum 60 credits) and mapped against the National Occupational Standards: Leadership and Management for Care Services SCQF10 or SVQ Care Services Leadership and Management SCQF Level 10, to be achieved within 2 years of commencement in the role or as defined by the SSSC, if sooner. A Registered Managers Award, RGN etc will also be considered and SSSC registration appropriate to the role is required.
The successful candidate will be required to work a flexible shift pattern to meet the needs to the service and will be required to participate in an off duty on-call rota.
We value our staff very highly. Alongside competitive terms and conditions we also offer membership of a great employee benefits’ scheme with fantastic discounts, a credit union and workplace pension plus numerous training and development opportunities.
Application notes
Closing Date: Wednesday 8 March 2023
If you would like to apply for this position, please email recruitment@themungofoundation.org.uk with a CV and supporting statement.
Appointments are made subject to satisfactory membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme, SSSC registration and appropriate safer recruitment checks but we will guide you through this.
Job Reference: REQ00530
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About us
We're one of Scotland's oldest charities - for more than two centuries, we've been supporting and empowering people with sight loss to live fulfilling lives. We're proud of all we've achieved in the past - but we have our sights set firmly on the future.
We're determined that no-one should face sight loss alone. We're committed to improving, diversifying and growing our services to make sure we can reach many more people with sight loss - when and where they need us.
Would you like to make a difference to a person’s quality of life? Would you like to learn BSL while being paid? We are looking for caring and motivated Support Workers to support deaf BSL users to join our team. Could that be you?
Who are we?
Deaf Action is a deaf-led charity, supporting and celebrating deaf people. We were established in 1835 and work with deaf people across Scotland and the South of England. Our work is geared towards empowering all deaf people to achieve their potential and fully participate in society, with equality of rights, access, and opportunity.
As well as our outreach service in Edinburgh, we are expanding our service provision in Glasgow and are looking for people who can make a major contribution to our plans for innovation and growth and who have the commitment and enthusiasm to contribute to the work of our support services to Deaf people throughout Edinburgh and Glasgow.
You can find out more about us at deafaction.org.
About you
We are looking for people who are caring, fun, motivated, willing to learn and show initiative. However, you would need some experience of working in a support service and managing /overseeing a team.
We will provide on the job training with the opportunity to complete formal qualifications in social care. If you have knowledge of BSL, or are a BSL user that is a bonus, however we will provide training if not.
The ideal candidates will be fully committed to our values, which can be found on our website.
The role
You will be leading a team to support *deaf people living in the community. As well as leading a team you will be lone working in the community, delivering a person-centred service supporting deaf people within their own living environment, to enable them to fully participate in the decisions affecting their lives, ensuring that wherever possible, service users benefit from informed choice, control, and independence. This will include both activities at home and within the community which will promote independence and social inclusion.
You will be accountable to the Support Services Area Manager. By working together, you will ensure that a consistent, high quality support service is provided to deaf service users in their own homes, and that staff are supported to develop and maintain such a service.
Due to the nature of this role, its essential that you can drive and have access to a car.
*deaf: this to includes Deaf Sign Language users, deafened, deafblind and hard of hearing people.
You will be asked:
• To actively monitor and develop individual and team performance by ensuring effective supervision and Performance Development Reviews/Reports (PDRs).
• Be responsible for any risk assessments at the service users home as part of your Health and Safety responsibilities.
• To provide clear direction, co-ordination, feedback, and day to day line management for the work of a delegated group of staff. Thus, ensuring their motivation to provide outcome focused, person centred services.
• To assess any new service users for the service and match them with staffs.
• To be involved in recruitment for new staff for the service.
• To take an active role in assessments / recordings and to work with service users to develop their skills and abilities to achieve identified outcomes.
• To assist service users with personal care tasks where appropriate.
• To be involved, as appropriate, with all household tasks, maximising service users’ participation.
• To record the day-to-day finances (where relevant) and household budgets of service users.
• To enable service users to access information to be fully informed of their rights and valid expectations from the service provided.
• To ensure the health, safety and security of individuals and their environment.
What is on offer? What do we offer?
• Occupational pension scheme with employer contributions of 6%.
• 32 days leave pro rata (including bank holidays) pro rata for part time.
• 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme provided by Health Assured.
• In-house Mental Health First Aiders.
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme and IT Voucher Scheme.
• Ongoing support for learning and development through our PDR process
• Death in service benefit
SDS Forth Valley, a project of the Independent Living Association and is increasing its staff team to support the increasing number of individuals, families, children and unpaid carers who are looking to management their own support having received a budget from their local Health and Social Care Partnership. We are the local disabled persons support organisation covering the whole of the Forth Valley area.
Having received funding for 3 years we are looking for a Project Development Manager to enhance our current team. Based in Alloa, the role is to manage and develop a project for the dissemination of SDS information to a range of people who are looking for community care support either for themselves or for the person they care for. The aim is to ensure a wide range of people are aware of the SDS and Carers legislation and of the rights that these pieces of legislation afford them.
In this role, we require the applicant to take a hands-on approach, leading, managing, and nurturing the Projects team. The key responsibilities will encompass leading service excellence, establishing operational performance benchmarks, optimising project initiatives, boosting efficiency, and cultivating a high-performance environment. Your leadership, persuasive abilities, and relationship-building skills will be essential in driving change, and your essential talent for motivating, nurturing, and maximizing team potential will be invaluable.
We are looking for a full-time Team Leader to join our dynamic team in Edinburgh.
In this position, you will lead a team of Project Workers as they provide support and opportunity to the adults who attend Upmo.
On a day-to-day basis, Team Leaders supervise and coordinate activities on site, provided support to staff, ensure onsite operations are in line with policy and procedure and assist Team Managers with case and site management. We are looking for a confident communicator with excellent leadership skills and the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
This Team Leader position is primarily based in our service in Edinburgh, where we offer workshop activities to adults with learning disabilities and autism from Links House in Leith, and St. Margaret's House at Meadowbank.
The starting salary for this position is £24,100.
No formal qualification is necessary, but experience of working in social care is preferred.
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