Home Support Area Manager

Clarecare is a professional accredited social enterprise with charitable status, providing a range of people-centred social services to individuals and families in County Clare for over 50 years. Current services include Family Support, Older Person Services, and Bushypark Residential Addiction Treatment Centre.

Clarecare’s headquarters are based in Ennis with local offices in Bushypark, Shannon, Kilrush, Killaloe, and Ennistymon. Further information is available on

www.clarecare.ie

www.bushypark.ie

Our Mission: is to provide person-centred services to individuals and families within our communities.

Our Core Values: 

• Collaborate

• Accountability

• Respect

• Empathy

• Trust

JOB DESCRIPTION

TITLE:

Home Support Area Manager – Shannon, Co. Clare

Full-time permanent role(Subject to funding and successful completion of probation)

DESCRIPTION OF ROLE: 

We require a motivated, dynamic, and organised person responsible for coordinating the Home Support Service in the local area, along with assessing the needs (Activities of Daily Living – ADL’s) of service users, assigning Home Support Workers to service users based on their needs as specified on personal support plans, and reviewing these assignments regularly. In addition, s/he is responsible for supporting best practice care to all the service users in the designated area and supporting a team of front-line Home Support Staff and administration/scheduling staff.

ROLE: 

The Home Support Area Manager is responsible for providing best-practice care to service users in the Home Support Service, within the approved budgetary allocation in the designated area. S/he is responsible for managing and guiding all staff required to run the service and for the health and safety and administration of the service. S/he will provide and promote the best available evidence model of care which is person-centred, and community focused and will have an appreciation of the needs of the Home Support service user and Home Support Worker.

The successful candidate will work as part of the Home Support team in Clarecare and liaise regularly with the same. Flexibility and willingness to travel is essential. You may be required to work outside of normal hours if necessary. Training and supervision will be provided to the successful candidate.

JOB RELATIONS: 

The Home Support Area Manager will work as part of the Home Support Team in Clarecare and will report to the Home Support Service Manager.

HOURS OF WORK: 

Monday to Friday 9.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. (inclusive of 30 mins. lunch break).

This position may involve evening or weekend work (as required) and you are required to be flexible regarding your work hours.

You will also be required (mandatory) to be available to work the roster for the Home Support on-call, out-of-hours service on a rota basis.

ANNUAL LEAVE ENTITLEMENT:

Yearly Annual Leave entitlement for this full-time role is 26 days per annum per full leave year (Jan-Dec).

JOB LOCATION:

The office base for this position will be Clarecare’s Shannon office.

You may, if required, be assigned by the Home Support Service Manager or designated; to the organization’s other places of business/centre locations. You will be given as much notice of any such change of place of work as is reasonably practicable. The successful candidate will be required to travel within Co. Clare to Clarecare’s other Centre locations and to service users in the community. You will be required to use your private car to travel for work purposes and must indemnify Clarecare on your private motor insurance policy in respect of same.

General Responsibilities:

• Provide a high level of professional competency to service users in receipt of Home Support.
• Ensure the highest professional standards of quality care are delivered
• Maintain the coordination, assessment, planning, delivery, and quality review of Home Support service users across Co. Clare.
• In conjunction with other Clinical Staff and Home Support Area Managers, develop, support, maintain, disseminate, and review care practice policies, procedures, and guidelines for the service.
• Devise and implement an audit portfolio with ongoing quality reviews to ensure all compliance obligations are met.
• Support the facilitation of all external audits within Clarecare e.g. HSE/HIQA and ensure all learnings/recommendations are shared and fully implemented.
• Facilitate learning through continuing professional development courses as and when they arise.
• Respond to care practice issues and unanticipated events as arising.
• Assist in developing and managing innovative pilot projects.
• Prepare and disseminate materials for meetings/training sessions (Powerpoint presentations /Summary documents) and maintain files in accordance with Clarecare standards in order to ensure adherence to record keeping/data protection practices in place.
• In conjunction with other Clarecare personnel, represent Clarecare at relevant local/national fora. 
• Carry out any other duties that may be assigned from time to time.
• To fulfil all administrative responsibilities of the post.
• Ability to roster Home Support hours to Home Support Workers while matching relevant skills and experience with each individual’s holistic service user care requirement as per personal support plan..
• To adhere to Clarecare policies and procedures in relation to all work with Clarecare.
• To complete statistics for HSE and/or as required by the Home Support Service Manager.
• To be accountable and attend supervision with the Home Support Operations Manager and maintain professional boundaries in all work with colleagues/service users/other professionals/Agencies, etc.
• To engage in continuous professional training & development opportunities as well as attending relevant meetings/conferences, etc.
• To work as part of the wider Clarecare structure and carry out duties as required.
• To perform such other duties appropriate to the office as may be assigned to you by the Home Support Service Manager or designate.

The salary and benefits on offer for this position is commensurate with experience and available upon request from HR on 086 – 4161520

NOTE:

The foregoing contains an outline of the main duties and cannot be complete. Tasks may arise which may not appear to fall within this job description. You will be required to respond flexibly when adhoc tasks arise which are not specifically covered in this job description. This includes additional duties which may arise from an operational perspective or from future legislation affecting the Charities sector.

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