Assistant Locality Manager - Female - MAT Leave Cover
Full Time: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Ossett
At Dimensions, you can bring your whole self to work – and be celebrated for it. As a Assistant Locality Manager in Ossett, you’ll belong to a team built on respect, kindness, and genuine care. We listen, learn, and grow together, creating a workplace where everyone feels supported and included. Recognised as a Great Place to Work for eight years running, we’ll give you the tools, training, and encouragement you need to thrive – and help others do the same
Salary & Hours
The total annual pay for this role is £29,173.07. It is contracted at 37.5 hours per week, split between 15 hours on rota plus an additional 10% annual allowance for 22.5hrs off rota hours £2,888.07. Flexibility to work a variety of shifts is essential.
Dimensions is proud to be one of very few social care organisations that are accredited by the Great Places To Work programme in 2026 – now 8 years in a row!
You will be supporting a lady to live a safe, fulfilled life, seeing family and friends, attending drama and craft groups, going on holidays, going to cinema. You will also provide support with:
- Promote and support to maintain independence
- Prompting Personal Care, supporting when needed
- Moving and Assisting, use of wheelchair and supporting around PEG – we train all staff in these areas!
- Supporting with Medication
- Supporting to maintain her home, cooking, cleaning and laundry
About the role
This is your opportunity to build your skills and expertise:
- Supporting the Locality Manager to guide, motivate and encourage your team to provide a quality service in line with our values, policies and practices.
- Working with relatives and outside agencies - including health professionals, social workers and advocates - to meet the needs of the people we support.
- Establishing and monitoring service budgets.
- Managing person-centred rota's and the recruitment of new team members.
- Leading by example and being a positive role model for your team.
- Delivering direct support, dividing your time between supporting people and working in the office.
- Gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010. In this context, "gender" refers to the sex legally assigned to an individual.
About you
You already have proven professional qualities, including:
- Experience of working with people with a wide range of needs - for example, autism and complex learning disabilities
- The ability to prioritise workload, manage your own time, delegate tasks and meet deadlines.
- Up-to-date knowledge of the personalisation agenda and Active Support provision.
- The personality to develop positive working relationships across Dimensions – including the people we support, their families, internal colleagues and external agencies.
- The willingness to work towards a Diploma Level 3 in Health and Social Care/Leadership and Management for Care Services.
Your rewards
In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer ongoing development opportunities and the strongest possible prospects, plus a range of great benefits including:
- Up to 35 days’ annual leave entitlement(including bank holidays)
- Staff discount shopping scheme ‘Rewarding Dimensions’
- Employee Assistance Programme
- We offer a salary advance scheme where you can access up to 50% of the money you've earned before payday.
- Pension scheme
- Long Service Awards
- Qualification scheme
- Employee recognition scheme 'Inspiring People'
- Discounted health and dental cover
- Life Assurance
- Bike to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
For more information visitwww.dimensions-uk.org/careers
Apply now
- An enhanced DBS disclosure will be required for this role, the cost of which will be incurred by Dimensions.
- We welcome applications from everyone who has the right to work in the UK, and value diversity in our workforce
- If a driving licence is required for this role you will need to produce a copy of the driving licence at the onboarding stage.
- As Disability Confident Leaders , we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy - Dimensions has been awarded this symbol by Jobcentre Plus to recognise our commitment towards the employment, retention, training and career development of disabled employees
- As part of our commitment to making reasonable adjustments we can offer support to complete your application. Please contact the Resourcing Consultant Team on 03003039150.
- We now have British Sign Language (BSL) translated videos for all of our recruitment communications.
