CQC Registered Manager – Transitions Service 

CQC Registered Manager – Transitions Service 
Park House, Middlesbrough

About Us 

Rethink Mental Illness is a national charity that helps those affected by mental illness. We aim to challenge attitudes and change lives. Currently, we directly support almost 60,000 people every year across England, helping them through crises, to live independently and to realise they are not alone. 

We have a unique and exciting opportunity for a CQC Registered Manager to lead and develop a brand new service in Middlesbrough which will support people stepping down from inpatient/secure care services.

Park House, a 14-bed service, will support people to step down from secure inpatient services, and through our care navigation model, enable them to reintegrate and move-on into the community, delivering improved outcomes for people. 

As the service is brand new, you will play a pivotal role in the setup and mobilisation of the service.

The Benefits 

- Salary of £32,025 - £35,734
- Contributory pension scheme 
- Life assurance 
- ‘Your Rethink Day’ – an extra day off for your birthday 
- Excellent development prospects 
- Paid eye tests (where appropriate) plus up to £55 towards new glasses or lenses 
- The opportunity to make a real difference with a pioneering charity 
- 33 days’ holiday per annum including Bank Holidays 

This is an incredible opportunity for a high calibre health and social care professional with a registered manager qualification to drive their career forward with our outstanding charity. 

We strive every day to positively impact mental health, support those who suffer with mental health issues and change lives. 

Our teams are passionate, driven and desperate to bring about the change needed to ensure mental health is no longer taboo, is well managed and is not the embarrassing topic in healthcare.  

Your Role 

As the CQC Registered Manager, you will be tasked with leading an integrated team of care navigators and ensuring the care provided to people using the service is of the highest quality. You will take responsibility for ensuring that the service meets CQC regulatory requirements and delivers against CQC Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOEs) whilst also working to contractual requirements. 

Your role will also involve: 

- Ensuring individuals using the service are treated with dignity and respect 
- Driving and promoting service users’ independence, choice and control 
- Ensuring the team deliver support in a truly person-centred way 
- Ensuring that support plans, risk assessments and safety plans are relevant and respond to individual needs 
- Working closely with the NHS trust to manage referrals into and move-on out of the service
- Promoting partnerships to support the social, mental and physical health needs of individuals 
- Ensuring all practices within the service are in line with current legislation, CQC regulations and practice standards
- Actively promoting Rethink Mental Illness’s values and mission 
- Reporting to the Head of CQC Services 
- Embracing and pursuing opportunities to improve the quality, innovation and development of services 

You will be an active member of, and contribute towards, the Registered Manager Practice Group to ensure consistency and quality across all Rethink Mental Illness CQC registered services. 

About You 

To be considered as a CQC Registered Manager, you will need: 

- At least two years’ relevant experience in an operational management capacity in a health and social care setting 
- A Registered Managers Level 5 Diploma in Leadership in Health & Social Care & Children & Young People’s Services or equivalent (or be able to work towards this) 
- Knowledge and an understanding of the current legal responsibilities with thorough understanding of the CQC Fundamental Standards 
- Experience of managing and developing staff and/or volunteers, setting and reviewing SMART objectives, and taking immediate action to address underperformance or conduct issues 
- Project and budget management experience 
- The ability to work proactively and collaboratively with colleagues, partners and other stakeholders to achieve outcomes 

Registration with the NMC would be beneficial to your application. An understanding of theories and models of service user empowerment, involvement and co-production would also be an advantage, as would experience of monitoring and evaluating services. 

General awareness of basic employment law and good practice in people management would be equally desirable. 

Other organisations may call this role CQC Manager, Mental Health Services Manager, Mental Health Services Team Lead, Registered Manager, Care Home Manager, Nursing Home Manager, Health and Social Care Manager, Service Manager, Social Care Manager, or Senior Mental Health Practitioner. 

Please note, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications. As such, candidates are encouraged to submit their application as soon as possible.

Webrecruit and Rethink Mental Illness are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. 

So, if you are ready to change lives as a CQC Registered Manager, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.