Purpose of the post
•Ensure that the people of Gwynedd are at the heart of everything we do.
•To assist and deputise on behalf of the Registered Managers
Responsibility for functions
•In co-operation and under the guidance of the registered manager, to take responsibility for the effective management of staff and finance. To respect and use appropriately all equipment and apparatus in the home. To notify the registered manager and the appropriate agency or service of any deficiencies in any equipment, apparatus or utilities (water, electricity, gas e.t.c)
Main duties
All tasks noted below in co-operation and under the guidance of the Registered Home Manager.
•To be responsible and accountable for the day to day management of the home in the absence of the manager, ensuring that all activity meets the relevant Gwynedd Council legislation, policies and guidelines and that the standards expected by the Standards Act 2000 are met.
•To assist to manage the budget of the home effectively, and conforming to Gwynedd Council Financial Regulations.
•The post-holder is expected to ensure that all activities in the home conform to the requirements of the Health and Safety Acts and to collaborate with the Directorate Health and Safety Officer to ensure compliance with the relevant requirements.
•To assist to ensure that the building, furniture, equipment and apparatus of the home are in a good condition, and jointly with the relevant officer from the Property Section, to ensure that the Development Programme for the home is reviewed annually.
•To assist in ensuring the annual review of the home’s mission statement and all relevant documentation available to the public and required under the Care Standards Act 2000.
•To assist in ensuring that the administration of the home is in order and current. This to include Risk Assessments, staff files including a record of their development plan and supervision sessions and the management information monitoring form.
•To ensure that an effective communication system is in place within the home to enable relevant information to be available to all home staff, whatever their work patterns are and that there is a formal procedure to share information between every shift.
•To develop, monitor and review the services within the home to ensure that the users receive the service which meets their assessed needs.
•To ensure and take responsibility, jointly with the Registered Manager, that every user’s Plan is current and is reviewed and that every record in relation to every individual user is current.
•To ensure that the managers of the Residential and Day Unit are aware of any issues that could affect the quality of the service provided.
STAFF MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
•To ensure that staff supervision and development exists in accordance with the Council’s policies and guidelines and that each member of staff is evaluated annually.
•To ensure that staff have received a formal presentation which includes relevant training and that they are advised and led to work in a way which respects each user as an individual and creates a homely and welcoming environment within the home.
•To ensure that the service provided by staff is of the highest possible standard. To manage and monitor issues involving sickness, discipline and complaints which could affect the standard of the service provided.
•To attend training that promotes the assistant manager’s personal development.
•In collaboration with the Home Manager, to take a prominent part in the process of appointing staff for the home.
CARE STANDARDS
•To co-operate with the CSIW inspectors and respond to and implement their recommendations within the specified time.
•To ensure that the needs of the users are met in accordance with what is in the User Plan and that the plan is revised on a regular basis.
•To promote feedback from service users either as individuals or as a group of users.
•To ensure that the users’ friends and relatives are part of the service planning process if the user so wishes.
•To ensure that the health needs of the users are assessed and that provision is available to meet their health needs.
•To establish and maintain a system of administering and distributing medicine in accordance with the service policy and in co-operation with the local pharmacy and Local Health Board.
•To collaborate and nurture a relationship with local doctors, district nurses and other medical staff in order to ensure that relevant health programmes are available for users.
•To ensure that the highest safety standards are maintained at all times for users, staff and visitors to the home. When a risk of danger is encountered, that a risk assessment is completed, implemented and reviewed as required.
•To register with the Care Council in accordance with the national guidelines.
GENERAL
•Responsibility for self-development.
•Ensure compliance with Health and Safety rules in the workplace in accordance with the responsibilities noted in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Council’s Health and Safety Policy.
•Operate within the Council’s policies in relation to equal opportunities and equality.
•Responsible for managing information in accordance with the Council’s information management guidelines. Ensure that personal information is treated in accordance with Data Protection legislation.
•Commitment to reducing the Council’s carbon emissions in accordance with the Carbon Management Plan, and to encourage others to act positively towards reducing the Council’s Carbon Footprint.
•Undertake any other reasonable duty which corresponds to the salary level and responsibility level of the job
•Responsibility to report any worry or suspicion that a child or vulnerable adult is being abused
Special circumstances
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