Assistant Enablement Manager/Deputy Manager - Bournemouth

Assistant Enablement Manager/Deputy Manager

Location: Bournemouth

Hours per week: 42 hours per week

Salary:£17 per hour, overtime paid at Enablement Practitioner rate of £15 per hour and sleep-ins paid @ £90 per sleep

Employment Type: Permanent​

Must be a driver with access to their own vehicle

About the role

We are looking for a passionate, resilient, and highly experienced Assistant Enablement Manager to join our team in Bournemouth, to enable the individual we support to live the life they want and deserve.

This is a highly specialist position and you must have significant experience of supporting individuals who present with high levels of physically challenging behaviour. The individual being supported is a 23-year-old male with a diagnosis of Learning disabilities, autism and diabetes and supported on a 3:1 support ratio at any given time (24 hours per day).

You will be experienced at supporting, developing, and motivating teams who have worked with individuals presenting with similar challenges and experiences in life, and you will be passionate and creative about getting things right and not afraid to advocate.

An Assistant Enablement Manager will work with the Enablement Manager to ensure we provide high-quality support in a person-centred way to the people we support.

The Assistant Enablement Manager will:

• Work 39 hours on rota directly supporting the people we support as well as provide coaching and mentoring to our teams of Enablement Practitioners. This will include working across all shift patterns including days, nights, evenings, weekends, sleep-ins and being on-call.


• Work 3 hours per week off rota ensuring our quality assurance processes are met, and upskilling the teams, completing supervisions, probations and appraisals, debriefs and welfare checks, delivering training, reviewing paperwork, supporting with transitions, providing a buddy system to other management teams, and generally supporting the Manager to effectively manage the teams in that geographical area.

This split of time is flexible and will be dependent on the needs of the people we support, our teams and our business needs. It may be you have 6 hours admin in week one and zero hours the next week, as an example.

You’ll act as a role model and mentor to the team and facilitate the use of collaborative working and creative solutions to enable both them and the people we support to achieve individual goals and develop. Working in partnership with the people we support, their family, our specialist support teams and external agencies you’ll champion interactions, person-centred planning and implement support plans that improve the quality of everyday life for those we support.​

Why work for us

• Work for a small not for profit organisation where the focus is the people we support

• Be listened to and have your direct experience and expertise valued

• Have support from an experienced management and clinical team

• Be celebrated for accomplishing goals with the individual you support

• Have training opportunities that enhance your career development

Benefits include 29 days annual leave (pro rata), rising to 30 days annual leave (pro rata) as of the 1st April, following your 1 year anniversary with PBS4, in-house paid induction training followed by 12 weeks blended e-learning, coaching, and mentoring. Additional training opportunities following probation, DBS check payment, Legal & General company pension, employee recognition scheme and access to various other benefits through our Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and get £300 for every successful person you refer.

About PBS4

We are a not for profit and social enterprise support provider for adults and young adults who have learning disabilities and/or autism. We support people to live in their own homes, with their own tenancies and our model of support is a practice called Positive Behaviour Support. Our CEO Jonathan Beebee is a registered Learning Disabilities Nurse and qualified Behaviour Analyst. We are a medium-sized organisation supporting 35 people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of just over 200.

Be the change!

People with learning disabilities should have the same right to an ordinary life as anyone else. They need support from people like you to help them achieve this. If you are passionate about helping people to achieve the life they deserve and thrive of seeing others succeed then a career with PBS4 is the career for you. We value experience in supporting others, but we warmly welcome people without experience who share our values.

We want to create new ways of working, led by passion and drive for doing what is right, and promote innovation from our teams. Join us on our mission to disrupt social care!

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