About The Service
Cardiff benefits from being the Capital City of Wales, offering the opportunity to work with a highly diverse population with a variety of care and support needs. As the largest local authority in Wales, we support nearly 5000 individuals to live well, offering them a person-centred support structure to ensure they can meet their own needs and outcomes.
The Learning Disabilities teams provide social work advice, information, and support services to adults with Learning Disabilities and their carers, working closely with wider multi-disciplinary teams to support ongoing complex needs. The Learning Disability Supported Living Team is embedded within this wider team.
The Learning Disability Supported Living Team oversee supported living contracts and a shared lives (adult placement) contract. The team work closely with commissioned providers, housing colleagues, registered social landlords, commissioning and contracts colleagues- as well as social work and health colleagues- in order to monitor, develop and deliver appropriate and high-quality accommodation and for adults with a learning disability.
The Learning Disabilites Service embody a strength-based approach to ensure that we focus on supporting people to access local opportunities and integrate into their communities.
About the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join Cardiff’s Learning Disability Service as a Supported Living Monitoring Manager.
The successful applicant will focus on enabling the Cardiff Learning Disability Service to monitor and deliver appropriate and high-quality accommodation and for adults with a learning disability.
The post will focus on overseeing the effective monitoring of the supported living contract, identifying and working to address concerns and ensuring best practice and thereby ensuring that people can lead a good life in their community, the core objection of the Learning Disability Service. We are looking for a confident and experienced leader who is keen to make a difference.
We take the welfare of our staff seriously and we strive to deliver positive working arrangements that support our amazing workforce to feel respected and valued.
Cardiff Council also offers some great benefits for staff including:
• A generous annual leave entitlement starting at 28 days per year to a maximum of 33 days per year after 5 years, with the option to purchase additional annual leave to a maximum of 10 days.
• We offer flexi and hybrid working with an expectation you will be office based at least 2 days a week.
• Access to the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Pension Fund which is part of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), offering a reputable, secure and flexible pension plan for peace of mind.
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Support offered through mentorship and enhanced by senior management
What We Are Looking For From You
The successful candidate will have a good general education alongside a recognised qualification in health and social care leadership or equivalent.
They will have extensive experience of working in/with supported living services for people with a learning disability and a comprehensive understanding of the challenges they face.
The successful candidate will have proven experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams alongside experience of chairing and leading meetings.
It is essential that the successful candidate can communicate effectively and creatively with vulnerable adults in a non-judgemental manner. You will demonstrate personal values that are consistent with the ethos of team working, and will be respectful, approachable and receptive to ideas.
The ability to speak other languages, in particular Welsh, and Community Languages would be an advantage.
Additional information
This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced check.
Refer to the Job description and person specification and tell us how you meet the criteria set out in these when completing your application, and please note we do not accept a CV as an application for the post.
Safeguarding and Child Protection are key priorities for the Council. We aim to support children and vulnerable adults to ensure they are as safe as they can possibly be. Our services and schools are committed to ensuring the safety and protection of all children and vulnerable adults, and will take action to safeguard their well-being, and acknowledge that children and vulnerable adults have a right to protection. This is supported in the general ethos of the Council and all schools.
We welcome applications in both English and Welsh. Applications received in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than English applications.
We understand you might use AI and other resources for your application; however, please ensure all information you provide is factually accurate, truthful, original and does not include ideas or work that is not your own.
This vacancy is suitable for post share.
Please note the Council does not accept CV’s. When completing the supporting information section of your application, please ensure you refer to the below located on our website:
Important information you need read in order to complete your application:-
• Application Guidance
• Applying for jobs with us
• Behavioural Competency Framework
Additional Information:-
• Employee Charter
• Recruitment of Ex-Offenders
• Privacy Notice
Interviews will take place on Friday 21st February 2025.
If you would like to have a discussion about joining Learning Disabilities services in Cardiff as a Supported Living Monitoring Manager please contact Emma Jo McDonald (EMcDonald@cardiff.gov.uk)
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