Summary:

We have an opportunity to join our Acorn Project as a Deputy Manager. Are you passionate about mental health? We are looking for a Deputy Manager to support our residents with complex mental health needs, and help them to thrive. We are looking for someone with passion and drive to join our team, enabling patients to thrive and work towards an independent future.

About us:

United Welsh is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation providing homes and related services in South Wales. We are passionate about building homes, creating communities and transforming lives.
We provide almost 6,700 affordable homes for people across 11 local authority areas, and our services help thousands more in our communities.

We work hard to make a difference and step up when our communities need us. Providing homes is just the start. Helping people to live happily and in good health is important to us, and we are proud to have been named fifth best landlord in the UK.

We have a new building programme that is worth around £35m each year and in the next five years, we intend to build 1,300 more homes. We are ambitious about how we can help people to live their best lives, working with a range of partners including local and national government and the NHS to give people choice; tackling poverty, improving wellbeing and playing our part in ending homelessness.

The United Welsh Group also incorporates our subsidiary Celtic Horizons Ltd which, in partnership, looks after all our property services, and Harmoni Homes Ltd, which offers affordable homes and homes for sale.

We have also developed a new social enterprise, Celtic Offsite, that manufactures low carbon homes and supports the local economy to thrive.

With almost 400 employees and a turnover of over £40m, we are an ambitious organisation with a strong sense of social purpose.

Life at United Welsh centres around our culture. We live by our values which connect us and inspire us, guiding our strategies as well as the decisions we make day to day.

Job Role:

We have an opportunity to join our Acorn Project as a Deputy Manager. Are you passionate about mental health? We are looking for a Deputy Manager to support our residents with complex mental health needs, and help them to thrive.

In this role you will assist your team leader in managing the day-to-day operations of the service, build trusting relationships with residents and assist them with their transition from the Acorn Project service into the local community.

If you are a resilient, empathetic and an emotionally intelligent individual, we would love to hear from you.

Deputy Manager – Supported Living – Complex Mental Health – United Welsh | United Welsh

For full details about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached Applicant Pack. To arrange an informal chat about the role, please contact Charmaine Evans on charmaine.evans@unitedwelsh.com

Download the Applicant Pack here

Additional Information:

Location: Gwent

Hours: Full Time, 35 hours

Salary: £34,586.21 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Closing date: Friday 21st February 2025, 9am

We do reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

To Apply:  

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and cover letter to jobs@unitedwelsh.com. In the cover letter, please outline why you believe you would be successful in this role based on your experience and the essential/desirable criteria in the job description, in no more than 1,000 words.

In addition to your CV and cover letter, please also complete our online Equality, Diversity and Declaration of Interest form which can be found on our website here. If you do not complete all parts of this process, you will be at risk of your application not being progressed further.

We reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Within your CV, please provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. We will not approach these referees prior to the shortlist stage, and we will seek your permission first. However, references will be sought as part of our pre-employment checks for the successful candidate.

  • We would be grateful if you could submit the Equality Diversity and Declaration of Interest form with your application. The information you provide will be used for monitoring purposes only and will be kept separate from your application
  • Please ensure your CV and other documents are emailed as a Word or PDF file, as unfortunately, we are currently unable to accept applications in any other formats at the moment
  • Requirements within the essential criteria of the Personal Requirements will be used for shortlisting purposes. However, all the criteria will be considered in the process of making an appointment.

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