Project Lead - Mental Health Care SYHA47901

Our client is an award winning not-for-profit organisation passionate about housing and supporting people to live well, settle at home and realise their potential.  A Sunday Times Best 100 Not-for-Profit organisations to work for; they are a forward thinking, innovative and ambitious organisation. They currently own and manage over 6000 properties, support over 1600 vulnerable customers across their LiveWell supported housing projects and employ nearly 500 people. 

LiveWell is the largest provider of supported housing across the Sheffield City Region. They offer a diverse range of services and are passionate about driving and supporting innovation in the sector. Their work on developing new models of care and support is award winning.

Do you have experience of managing CQC registered care services?  Are you passionate about delivering good, quality care and support services to adults with mental health conditions?

Our client is seeking to recruit an experienced person to join the management team at Lister Project. 

Lister Project is a CQC registered residential care service for 25 adults, split over 5 separate houses in the Basegreen area of Sheffield.  If you believe that you have great leadership skills, the passion to lead a service that delivers high quality care and support and play a vital role in developing their staff team, then they would like to hear from you. 

This post is a full time position, working 37 hours per week over 5 days. The successful candidate will join the project management team and report to the Registered Manager. The successful candidate will also be expected to provide on call cover on a rota basis .

Their ideal candidate will have experience of:

• Delivering sound leadership to ensure staff team members are carrying out their respective duties efficiently that deliver the best possible outcomes for customers
• Knowledge of CQC Essential Standards of Quality & Safety
• Working with customers who have diagnosed mental health conditions or a similar customer group in a residential setting
• Working to the legislative requirements of a CQC registered residential service
• Having a great understanding of person centred, outcome based care and support provision and achieving excellent outcomes.
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills at all levels and maintains excellent communication with customers ' relatives and representatives, staff and other health and social care professionals.
• Ensuring quality assurance systems and processes are followed
• Performance monitoring to deliver high quality support and care to customers within budget and responding to customer’s change of needs and identified risks.

Some of their benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement – 27 days annual leave, statutory bank holidays, plus an additional 4 days
• Flexible working options including Flexi Time, Condensed Hours, Part Time
• Excellent training including free annual training and ongoing professional development including a leadership academy
• Excellent benefits including Rewards - employee discount scheme, which offers cash back and shopping discounts
• Westfield Health (employer paid)

For the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders this role is an excluded job (LiveWell roles).

Working Hours:  The role is delivered in core office hours however we may require work to be carried outside of these core hours.

Closing Date:     03 May 2017     

Interview Dates: Speed interviews will be carried out on 12 May 2017

The assessment day and formal interviews will be held all day on 22 May 2017

Applicants are asked to note the above dates.

This is a Blue Octopus Recruitment Ltd vacancy who are operating as an employment agency. Once you have clicked to apply for this vacancy, we will then send you more information on the role including a copy of the application form via email.