Assistant Locality Manager

Assistant Locality Manager – Edgware

Salary: £31,771.73 per annum + 10% off-rota allowance (£3,177.07)
 

Are you ready for the next step in your career?
Do you want to lead, learn, and develop while continuing to make a meaningful difference every day?

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Locality Manager to join our team in Edgware. This is a fantastic chance to build your leadership skills, develop your operational knowledge, and work closely with a supportive and experienced team.

You’ll help oversee a complex, supported single-site home for a vibrant young woman with learning disabilities, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, ADHD, and PTSD. She’s active in her community, loves British comedy and music, and has a brilliant sense of humour.

This role is designed to help you grow:

2 days per week on rota, where you’ll model best practice, support colleagues, and ensure quality care is being delivered.
3 days per week off rota, giving you time to support the Locality Manager, support with supervisions, complete audits, provide coaching, and maintain flexibility across the service.

You’ll be supported every step of the way by an experienced Locality Manager and benefit from coaching with our PBS Consultant to strengthen your confidence and capability around complex care and team leadership.

What We’re Looking For

• Experience supporting people with complex needs and behaviours of concern
• Someone who can build positive relationships and communicate with warmth and clarity
• A team player ready to lead by example
• A problem-solver who thrives on responsibility
• Someone eager to continue learning and developing in a leadership role

Why Join Dimensions?

• Mentoring from a skilled manager and access to PBS coaching
• Career progression pathways to Locality Manager and beyond
• A flexible and varied work week with room to grow
• Recognised as a Great Place to Work – 7 years running!

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.

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

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
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