Clinical Deputy Manager

Brook Street Social Care are proud to be providing support to a service within Manchester, who offer 24-hour support to service users within a home environment via supported tenancies.

The service provides supported accommodation for a mixture of adults with complex challenges who have a diagnosis of mental health and/or a learning disability.

We are seeking to recruit a Clinical Deputy Manager to join their long standing and well-established team in Manchester.

As the Clinical Deputy Manager, you will be responsible for supporting the registered manager to lead the service while working as part of the support team and role modelling good practice within a social care setting.

Main Duties/ Expectations:

• Providing an excellent standard of clinical leadership to all staff and ensuring a high standard of care is provided while role modelling good practice within a social care setting.
• Working in a person-centred way with individuals to improve quality of life and skill building around budgeting, personal care, community engagement, social relations, medications management and other person-centred goals.
• Meeting with new starters to complete supervisions during induction as directed by the Registered Manager.
• Highlighting areas for training/development within the team and communicating this need to the Registered Manager through observation of staff and service requirements.
• Undertaking on-call duties as required and responding to call outs if needed in order to maintain a safe service, including covering staff sickness when all other options have been exhausted.
• Completing on-call reports and feeding back to the Registered Manager.
• Under the guidance of the Registered Manager, ensuring all team members receive adequate and appropriate support to meet their needs in relation to supporting people who challenge and highlighting any change of staff development needs or the reviewing of support plans as an outcome of any incidents.
• Assisting the Registered Manager in ensuring service users receive their commissioned hours and managing the delivery of those hours in line with service users' needs and preferences.
• Prior to a review, supporting the Registered Manager by reviewing support plans with tenants to gain their feedback in preparation for a review.
• Aiding the Registered Manager in ensuring staff and tenants meetings are held at required intervals and ensuring feedback from tenants and staff is responded to appropriately when directed by the Registered Manager.
• Having an understanding of the wider implications of the business in relation to the commissioning process, audit and inspection (CQC etc.).

To be successful for the role:

• Full-time contract.
• Registered Nurse (RMN/RGN) with valid NMC Pin.
• Proven experience as Clinical Nurse Manager/Deputy or similar clinical leadership role.
• Experience in working in Social Care/Nursing Environment.
• Full flexibility in working and covering on call (this may include evenings, nights, and weekends).
• Computer literate.
• Full UK driving licence (Desirable).
• Full eligibility to work and live in the UK.
• Enhanced DBS.
• Training and development opportunity.
• Pension scheme.
• Free on-site parking.

If you are interested in applying for this position and feel you have the right attributes and attitude to excel in the role, apply today and our team will be in touch with you.

Otherwise, please contact Cat Rainford on or email.
Good luck with your application!