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Deputy Manager

£27540 per annum

Canterbury, Kent

Rapport Housing and Care

Rapport Housing and Care has an exciting new opportunity at Connors House Residential Home for a full time, permanent Deputy Manager to join the team.

About the role:

Working as part of a highly committed team, the Deputy Care Home Manager is one of the key roles within our homes and the successful postholder will put our residents care and wellbeing at the heart of everything you do.

At Rapport Housing and Care we pride ourselves on the warmth and support we provide to our residents and their families. We promote independence, dignity and quality of life at all times in a person centred caring and supportive environment.

As Deputy Care Home Manager you will be responsible for ensuring that through clinical governance and leadership the care, health and safety of all residents is effectively assessed, planned, implemented and evaluated.

About you

The Deputy Care Home Manager is a motivational and inspirational leader, who has the ability to motivate, engage, and exercise leadership throughout the team with an open communication style. The Deputy Care Home Manager Is able achieve a high standard of clinical care by auditing, analysing trends and directing the nursing and care team to deliver results.

A key to success in this role is the ability to communicate with ease to the Care Quality Commission, Social Services and the Safeguarding teams. The ability to implement action plans for improvement and build a reputation of high quality care delivery for the home.

Key things about you:

o Evidence of appropriate qualification to undertake the post - NVQ Level 4 / 5
o Care experience in the voluntary, public or private sectors
o Willing to undertake training


Proven experience of post-qualification practice in a health and social care setting with older people

Previous experience of leading a team

Great written and verbal skills for communication and understanding

Good IT skills and confidence in computer based work

We continue to reward our staff with competitive salaries. If you are interested in joining and contributing to the success of our proud Rapport Housing and Care Team, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Rapport Housing and Care offers Supported, Residential and Nursing Care to older people with physical frailty and Dementia across Kent.

OUR PHILOSOPHY:

We want everyone who meets us, no matter in what context, to experience our friendly, caring, compassionate philosophy, which runs through our whole organisation. We are a leading housing and care provider in the south-east, flexible and responsive to the needs of people in later life.

OUR VALUES:

o Compassion: behaving in a manner that treats people with respect and dignity, listening to what they say and responding;
o Openness: Offering high quality services that are adaptable, flexible and that meet the changing needs of service users in a manner that offers genuine choice;
o Integrity: acting at all times in an honest and straightforward way with all those with whom we come into contact;
o People focussed: reflecting the ethos inherent in the organisations philosophy.


Benefits of working for us include:

· We pay the Adult National Living Wage to all of our employees, regardless of their age

· 28 days paid holiday (pro-rota if part time)

· Comprehensive Induction and Training Packages Continual professional development

· Opportunities to apply for our Academy and National Diploma courses

· Stakeholder Pension Scheme Opportunities to progress.

Confirmation of all appointments is subject to proof of Eligibility to Work in the UK, satisfactory Enhanced DBS clearance, satisfactory references, satisfactory numeracy and literacy assessments and medical clearance.

If you have any questions about the role or about Rapport Housing and Care, please feel free to contact the Home Manager on 01227 769774.

Otherwise and to apply, please click on the apply now button and complete the online form.

Rapport Housing and Care is committed to delivering compassion and companionship as well as care and we are proud of our reputation and profile as one of the major care providers in Kent.

Rapport Housing and Care values the diversity that exists in all our communities and works towards this being reflected in our workforce.

Charity No: 254140

PLEASE NOTE: applications that do not include full education and work histories (with gaps between jobs explained) may not be considered.

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