Residential Care Home Manager (Mental Health)

Residential Care Home Manager (Mental Health)

Acocks Green, Birmingham

£35,203 per annum, (may include evening and weekend work and assisting with regulated services on-call cover)

37.5 hours per week

Are you a natural leader, able to facilitate recovery activities, passionate about mental health and able to motivate others?

Do you have an interest in working with those who experience mental health distress who are living in a Residential Care Home?

We are a leading provider of mental health services in Birmingham and the West Midlands. We are currently looking for an experienced Residential Care Home Manager to join our forward thinking and innovative team.

Flint Green House is a registered residential care home in Acocks Green, Birmingham. The care home can accommodate up to fifteen residents either male or female. We provide an environment that focuses on fast-track rehabilitation for a period up to 18 months for adults who have been referred from an in-patient forensic mental health setting.

In this post, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Registered Care Home, in line with the standards set by the Care Quality Commission, and our funders.

You will ensure that the appropriate level of provision of services to service users is maintained. Leading a skilled team, you will take responsibility for the assessment of peoples’ skills, needs, and wishes, and the coordination of support packages, with the twin objectives of creating conditions conducive to recovery, and improving service user’s ability to lead an ordinary life and to be part of their community.

The successful candidate will have previous management / supervisory experience in the care field and an NVQ Level 3 in Care and an equivalent Management qualification. You must be committed to recovery-based practice and able to demonstrate a positive and enabling attitude towards people recovering from severe mental distress.

If you wish to apply, please provide a detailed explanation of how you feel that you meet each of the values, attributes and experience required for these positions.

Benefits include an attractive defined contribution pension scheme, Paycare which offers employees affordable cover for a range of healthcare treatments, an Employee Assistance Programme which includes free counselling and a comprehensive training programme.

Our people are key to the success of the organisation, and we are recognised as both a Mindful Employer as well as achieving Gold standard success in Investors in People. We welcome applications from people who have experienced mental health difficulties.

The closing date for applications is Sunday 16th June 2024

Interviews will take place on Wednesday 26th June 2024