Deputy Enablement Manager

Full-time Permanent Mid-level Senior

Posted 02 Oct 2026

Deputy Enablement Manager - Hampshire

Location: Southampton, Portsmouth and Winchester

Hours per week
: 42 hours per week ( 30 hours on shift and 12 hours Admin)

Salary: £15.60 per hour

Employment Type
:
Permanent

* Must have a full UK driving licence.

• Have experience in supporting people with learning disabilities and autism
• Confident swimmer
• Able to ride a bike and enjoy doing physical activities outdoors

Whilst PBS4 holds a sponsorship license, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship to any new applicants to PBS
4. We wish you all the best with your job search and future career.

About the role

We are looking for a passionate, resilient, and highly experienced Deputy Enablement Manager to join our team in Hampshire.

The Deputy Enablement Manager will:

Work on rota directly supporting the people we support as well as provide coaching and mentoring to our teams of Enablement Assistants. This will include working across all shift patterns including days, nights, evenings, weekends, sleep-ins and being on-call.

Work off rota ensuring our quality assurance processes are met, and upskilling the teams, completing supervisions, probations and appraisals, debriefs and welfare checks, delivering training, reviewing paperwork, supporting with transitions, providing a buddy system to other management teams, and generally supporting the Manager to effectively manage the teams in that geographical area. This split of time is flexible and will be dependent on the needs of the people we support.

You’ll act as a role model and mentor to the team and facilitate the use of collaborative working and creative solutions to enable both them and the people we support to achieve individual goals and develop. Working in partnership with the people we support, their family, our specialist support teams and external agencies you'll champion interactions, person‑centred planning and implement support plans that improve the quality of everyday life for those we support.

Why work for us?

Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued

Have support from an experienced management and clinical team

Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support

Have training opportunities that enhance your career development

Benefits include: 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1-year anniversary with PBS
4., in‑house paid induction training, followed by 12 weeks blended e‑learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme, earned wage access, and access to various other benefits through our enhanced Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and receive £300.00 for every successful person you refer.

About PBS4

PBS4 is a values led social care organisation, providing Neurodisability Services to individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism and/or behaviours that may challenge. We support people living in their own homes, with their own tenancies, and we utilise Positive Behaviour Support as the framework for the support we provide.

We are a medium‑sized organisation supporting people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Somerset, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of around 420 employees.

The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these! We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social…