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Join Our Team as an Assistant Manager in Canterbury

Location:Canterbury, Kent

Salary: £28,000 per annum

Are you an experienced Assistant Manager ready to make a meaningful impact in the lives of autistic adults? Homersham, is a modern supported living development, just outside the centre of Canterbury, and we’re looking for a dynamic and dedicated Assistant Manager ready to join our team and hit the ground running!

About Us:

Welcome to Homersham, a spacious modern building comprising seven high-spec, modern flats and bed sits designed to meet the unique needs of autistic adults with learning disabilities and mental health challenges. Our mission is to provide exceptional care and support in a community setting.

Your Role:

  • As an Assistant Manager, you will:
  • Collaborate with the onsite Supported Living Manager and Team Leaders to recruit, retain, and develop staff.
  • Provide regular supervisions and competency assessments. Work closely with the QA team and Operations Manager.
  • Lead one of three teams, providing support and oversight to all teams.
  • Build positive and engaging relationships with tenants, families, staff, healthcare professionals, and other stakeholders.
  • Ensure continuity and consistency in the quality of care

What We Offer:

  • Excellent training and competency assessments.
  • A supportive and enriching work environment with excellent training.
  • Opportunities for career progression within The Kent Autistic Trust.
  • A rolling 3-week rota with a mix of shifts and a full weekend off every third weekend.
  • The chance to make a meaningful impact on the lives of autistic individuals.

About You:

  • An experienced Assistant Manager; a natural leader with solid supervisory skills and a coaching mindset.
  • Prior experience in the adult social care sector, ideally with autism or learning disabilities.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.
  • IT literacy and confidence with digital systems.
  • A driver comfortable with driving company vehicles, including a small minibus.
  • Flexible and adaptable to changing situations.

Why Join Us?

The Kent Autistic Trust is dedicated to enabling autistic adults to have the best quality of life. We provide outstanding expertise and experience in supporting autistic individuals and offer a range of services, including living, vocational, educational, therapeutic, social, and occupational support. As a registered charity, we represent the needs of autistic people and their families, supporting over five thousand families throughout Kent. We strive to achieve and maintain good and outstanding CQC ratings.

If you are passionate about making a difference and are excited about this opportunity, we would love to hear from you!

About the Trust:

Supporting over 80 people in Medway and across Kent, The Kent Autistic Trust provides a wide range of services designed to meet diverse needs of autistic people and people with associated neuro developmental conditions. We provide residential homes, supported living accommodation, day resource services, respite, and outreach services. Ensuring the voice of those we support is actively listened to, working for us often means that no two days are the same, but the care and support we give is of consistently high quality, with CQC rating all our services good, and many outstanding.

Our Values and Commitment:

KAT is committed to providing high quality supports designed around individual abilities, needs and choices.

KAT is committed to promoting independence and inclusion within communities.

KAT believes everyone is able to make their own individual contribution.

KAT seeks to work in partnership with all relevant parties but in particular with the individual themselves.

We seek Support Workers who really value every person, whether it’s the people we support, their families, carers, or other staff by respecting their priorities, needs, abilities and limits.

We hope you are one of them!

We do not accept applications made via agencies for Support Workers.

Please find attached a copy of our Privacy Notice. Or a copy can be found on our website.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found or experiencing a high volume of applications.

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