Deputy Manager - Supported Living

Could you be our new Deputy Manager?

We are Sense, a high quality care service in Dunmurry, who are passionate about supporting adults with complex needs, including sensory losses and learning disabilities. 

We’re looking to recruit a new deputy manager, someone with the right values and behaviours, everything we do is underpinned by five core values. These values shape the way we work as we pursue our vision. Our values are:

- We include, We collaborate, We find a way, We challenge, We celebrate.

Do you share these values? If so, read on…

As a frontline hands on Deputy Manager you will need to support the Registered Care Manager in the day to day running of a responsive innovative and high quality service. Special attention will be paid to facilitating and monitoring personalised active support and the creation of a continuous learning environment that will seek to maximise the potential of each person we support.

You’ll also be able to demonstrate experience within a social care setting of managing and developing staff, alongside leadership abilities and excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You will also hold a valid UK driving licence.

Work at Sense can be demanding and so isn’t for everyone, but it is also incredibly rewarding and valuable. If you have the right values, you will be supported by a programme of continuous training and development, a supportive work environment, generous leave arrangements and employee benefits and access to a pension scheme.

You will recieve a range of benefits for working at sense including a generous annual leave entitlement, discount schemes, Health and wellbeing / assistance programme to name a few.

If this sounds like the right opportunity for you, or to find out more, please click below. Managers will use your application to shortlist. We would recommend that you read the candidate guidelines and job description (found at the base of this advert) before applying.

Our selection process aims to make sure that the role is right for you and you are right for us. It involves completing an online application form and taking part in a telephone screening interview. If you are successful at that stage, you will be invited to a virtual interview.

If you are a disabled candidate and require a hard copy pack or a different format, please contact the recruitment team on [email protected].

Sense is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring that all staff are motivated, skilled and rewarded by their work.  Sense is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. Therefore, all offers of employment are subject to a number of checks including an enhanced DBS/Access NI check where appropriate.

To avoid disappointment, we advise you to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close posts at any time.