Job summary
Service Manager Assessment and Reablement Unit (Registered Manager)
We are recruiting for 3 Service Manager roles to lead our high-quality Community Support Bed services across Derbyshire. These roles are based in Bennerley Fields in Ilkeston, Staveley Centre in Chesterfield, and Thomas Fields in Buxton.
Our Community Support Beds are 24/7 regulated services offering short-term assessment and reablement/rehabilitation to help people regain confidence and maximise independence, with the goal of returning home wherever possible. These services support individuals leaving hospital, requiring urgent community response, or benefiting from reablement in a bedded care setting.
Main duties of the job
As the CQC Registered Manager, you will lead and manage the provision of safe, effective, and high-quality residential assessment and reablement services. You will:
Manage a 24/7 service supporting hospital discharge, admission avoidance, and step-up care.
Lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver goal-focused reablement and recovery.
Ensure safe admissions and timely support planning aligned with transfer to assess principles.
Promote coordinated approaches to planned and unplanned care.
Act as the professional expert for the service, advising stakeholders and managing access.
Drive performance, quality assurance, and financial compliance. Contribute to strategic planning and service transformation.
About us
- Be part of a transformational journey in adult social care across Derbyshire.
- Help shape a new model of care following public consultation and feedback from health partners.
- Play a pivotal role in a new partnership between Derbyshire County Council and Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS.
- Lead services that make a real difference in peoples lives every day.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please go to the DCC jobs website click on search jobs and put job number JOB/25/02705 for the full description and job and person profile, please apply online through the DCC website, please do not apply via this website
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please go to the DCC jobs website click on search jobs and put job number JOB/25/02705 for the full description and job and person profile, please apply online through the DCC website, please do not apply via this website
Person Specification
Personal Effectiveness
Essential
- Political awareness, recognising the role of elected members within local authority
- Ability to work in partnership with stakeholders to achieve the best outcomes for individuals
- Excellent communication, with the ability to communicate with a range of people including the general public, and people who use our services
- Effective people management
- Proficiency using IT and digital systems to ensure the effective running and operation of a service
- Ability to travel across the county as required
- Ability to work flexibly
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care or Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management in Adult Care
- Substantial post qualifying experience working in a specialist provision
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge of financial regulations and budget monitoring
- Robust and practical knowledge of reablement processes and legislation
- Excellent project management skills to manage multiple projects across the care provision, ensuring agreed outcomes and value for money
- Ability to persuade others and influence outcomes critical to the business
- In depth knowledge of relevant legislation and its impact on the area of provision
- Ability to identify and manage risk in the defined service area
- Ability to plan for long term service delivery, needs and developments
- In depth understanding of Quality Assurance principles
- Management techniques in a large complex organisation
- The ability to speak fluent English in order to communicate fully in the role with clients and the public
- Ability to analyse data, and apply findings to inform sound business decisions
- Knowledge of local health and care priorities and how they will impact on the role/ facility.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial relevant experience of managing operational reablement adult care services
- Proven success in management of change
- Budget and financial management
- Working successfully with internal and external stakeholders to bring about transformational change
- Working in partnerships/ collaborations/ matrix team roles with health partners.
Person Specification
Personal Effectiveness
Essential
- Political awareness, recognising the role of elected members within local authority
- Ability to work in partnership with stakeholders to achieve the best outcomes for individuals
- Excellent communication, with the ability to communicate with a range of people including the general public, and people who use our services
- Effective people management
- Proficiency using IT and digital systems to ensure the effective running and operation of a service
- Ability to travel across the county as required
- Ability to work flexibly
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care or Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management in Adult Care
- Substantial post qualifying experience working in a specialist provision
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge of financial regulations and budget monitoring
- Robust and practical knowledge of reablement processes and legislation
- Excellent project management skills to manage multiple projects across the care provision, ensuring agreed outcomes and value for money
- Ability to persuade others and influence outcomes critical to the business
- In depth knowledge of relevant legislation and its impact on the area of provision
- Ability to identify and manage risk in the defined service area
- Ability to plan for long term service delivery, needs and developments
- In depth understanding of Quality Assurance principles
- Management techniques in a large complex organisation
- The ability to speak fluent English in order to communicate fully in the role with clients and the public
- Ability to analyse data, and apply findings to inform sound business decisions
- Knowledge of local health and care priorities and how they will impact on the role/ facility.
Experience
Essential
- Substantial relevant experience of managing operational reablement adult care services
- Proven success in management of change
- Budget and financial management
- Working successfully with internal and external stakeholders to bring about transformational change
- Working in partnerships/ collaborations/ matrix team roles with health partners.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
