Enablement Support Team Manager

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⭐Derbyshire County Council are hiring!⭐

Derbyshire County Council are looking for Enablement Support Team Managers to manage community enablement delivery for a designated area within short term services ensuring effective delivery of high-quality, short-term enablement services to individuals. Supporting the Service Manager with the planning and review of services. 

We’re all about reablement that really matters - encouraging people to achieve their best in their own homes and communities. Do you like supporting colleagues to help people in the community to discover their own strengths? Can you encourage and support them to help people in the community to live as independently as they can?

This is a great time to join us because we are developing a new programme that wraps time-limited support around people at home. We’re looking for colleagues who can contribute their skills and expertise to multi-disciplined professional teams across Derbyshire (or in locality). We need team members who can support us to adopt new ways of working and make sure that collaboration around those we are working with is at the heart of everything we do.

We have positions in the following locations so please ensure you add your location preference to your application:

• Bolsover
• Chesterfield
• North East Derbyshire

We’re keen to hear from you if you:

• Enjoy a challenge
• Understand what it means to treat people with dignity and respect
• Have excellent leadership skills and the ability to create an inclusive team
• Can be creative and are forward thinking
• Are able to build a positive rapport with external bodies

 Working in any care role can be challenging at times, but extremely rewarding, and as an employee of Derbyshire County Council, you will receive a competitive benefits package including:

• 27 days of annual leave plus another 5 once you reach 5 years of continuous service (pro rata for part time)
• Generous local government pension scheme
• Guaranteed incremental annual pay increases
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounts at selected county leisure centres
• Derbyshire Rewards Scheme giving employees discount on their everyday spending
• Access to physio, mental health, and other wellbeing services
• And much more

Interested? Click on the attachments where you can find more specific details about the role of an Enablement Support Team Manager and apply through our website.

For more information on the wonderful work we do or to request a call back from us to chat to us about a career in care visit our Careers in social care page.

We’d love to hear from you. Come join us!

Provisional interview dates 12th/13th October 

Due to this post having access to children and/or vulnerable adults, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Service check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an applicant from obtaining this post, as all cases are judged individually according to the nature of the role and information provided. Click here to see our policy on criminal background checks.

The job may require unsocial hours working including weekends and Bank Holidays. Payment arrangements will be detailed in any contract offer made.

Saturday and Sunday hours will be paid at plain time where it is part of your normal working pattern unless it is between 7pm and 7am, where enhanced rates of pay apply. Enhanced pay rates are paid for Bank Holiday working.

This is an Internal vacancy and is only available to employees of Derbyshire County Council, including temporary and relief employees and agency workers engaged by the Council. Employees specifically identified as ‘individually at risk’ of redundancy have priority interview status, and employees on pay protection have guaranteed interview status, for vacancies at the same grade or below. When applying for jobs please note that it is your responsibility to ensure that this status clearly stated on your application form. Please ask your manager if you are unsure of your status. School based employees who fall under the responsibility of the Governing body of an LA School are only able to apply for these posts if they are subject to notices of redundancy issued by the relevant school