The Depute Social Care Manager (Night Shift) will assist the Social Care Manager and deputise as required in relation to the provision of management support and direction to staff for young people moving in to, resident in and moving on from placements in Stepdown Houses.
The Depute Social Care Manager (Night Shift) will have ‘hands on’ responsibilities including a senior practitioner/exemplar role to ensure that young people are safe, healthy, active, nurtured achieving, respected, responsible and included in line with GIRFEC.
As directed by the Social Care Manager (Night Shift), the Depute Social Care Manager (Night Shift) will ensure that work with young people and their families are consistent with legislative, regulatory, organisational and procedural requirements and bench-marks positively against current good practice standards and guidance.
Under the direction of the Social Care Manager (Night Shift), the Depute Social Care Manager (Night Shift) will provide supervision, direction and support to staff to deliver on agreed Care Plans and objectives to achieve best outcomes for young people and ensure that appropriate opportunities are made available to staff to enable them to maximise performance.
Role Accountabilities & Key Activities
- To ensure that the highest possible standards and quality of care are provided to our young people.
- To ensure that, in partnership with other key agencies, the best possible outcomes are achieved by young people.
- To effectively support the development, maintenance and monitoring of systems and structures which reflect values and ethics inherent in the Code of Practice for Employers and Code of Conduct for Staff as published by the Scottish Social Services Council.
- To effectively manage and account for the use of financial and other resources.
- To manage the performance of staff so that Care Plans are effective and objectives achieved.
- To contribute to the selection and recruitment of staff to meet service requirements.