Manager St Paul's Court

Manager | 39 Hours | St Paul's Court, Lisburn

Job Summary:

The manager is central to ensuring that Praxis Care achieves its goal of providing quality care to the most vulnerable in our societies. Reporting to the Head of Operations, the Project Manager will ensure the effective and efficient management and development of the service in line with organizational strategy, ensuring regulatory, organizational, and contract compliance, while at all times promoting the Praxis Care values and brand through high-quality support of the people we support.

All applicants for positions at the level of Manager or above within Praxis Care are required to disclose any actual, potential, or perceived conflicts of interest. This includes any direct or indirect involvement with individuals, firms, companies, or organisations that have, or are seeking to establish, a contractual relationship with Praxis Care.

Failure to declare such interests may result in disqualification from the recruitment process. If a conflict of interest is identified after an appointment has been made, it may constitute grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including dismissal.

PRAXIS CARE IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER.

Key Accountabilities:

• Ensure that all work within the service is user-focused, co-produced, and upholds the principles of respect, privacy, dignity, fulfillment, independence, and choice.

• Oversee and contribute to the referral process, admission, and review procedures while working in partnership with the relevant statutory agencies, the people we support, their families, and others in co-producing and developing person-centred programs of care and support.

• Monitor and support individuals towards increased independence and contribute to the review of each person we support in partnership with them and the multi-disciplinary/agency teams.

• Deal with issues of concern or complaints sensitively and appropriately, following policy and procedure.

• Coordinate and contribute to the advertising of staff vacancies, selection, recruitment, and induction of new staff in partnership with Support Services.

• Provide effective, quality-driven leadership of all staff within the service through regular supervision, effective communication, management of workloads, assessment and verification of staff undergoing career development qualifications, and identification of development needs.

• Personally contribute towards a positive, cohesive, and therapeutic environment and deal appropriately with matters relating to disciplinary, grievance, untoward incidents, and complaints.

• Develop good working relationships and actively promote community presence within the locality through positive representation of the Praxis Care brand.

• Ensure efficient and effective administration procedures and systems are in place to comply with Praxis Care policy and regulatory/legislative requirements, including rota planning and the storage and dispensing of medication.

• Ensure that all reporting procedures are completed accurately and efficiently.

• Complete annual reports on the evaluation of the service.

• Be fully involved in the preparation and control of the service budget as determined by senior management, ensuring the service budget and financial procedures are adhered to and that all monies are correctly accounted for.

• Maintain regular review and oversight of the service budget on a monthly basis.

• Maintain responsibility for the oversight of the people we support funds where appropriate.

• Complete Health & Safety monthly monitoring reports and work in partnership with landlords, contractors, and health and safety experts to ensure that all activities are carried out in a manner that is safe for everyone within the service and in accordance with…