Assistant Manager

Company: Kirklees Metropolitan Council
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Location: Wakefield
Job Description:

Are you passionate about making a difference to our citizens and the district that they reside in? Then, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team.

About the Role

  • to work effectively as part of the management team to support adults with learning disabilites to live independently within the community, promoting independence, rights, choicesand inclusion.
  • to ensure the service is deliverecompliance with relevant legislation

Key Responsibilities

  • undertake day to day operational responsiblities for tenants, supporting individuals to live independently in the community.
  • responsible for induction, probation, supervision, identify and tracking learning and development needs of staff. Completing rotas, implementing the councils policys and procedurers.
  • shared responsiblity up to 100 staff in managers absence.
  • Accountable for safe management of expenditure and income for tenants including cash, invoices, cheques in relation to thier personal finances.
  • Regular finacial audits
  • medication audits
  • Producing and processing manual and electronic data and esponsible for ensuring accuracy of information, confidentiality and data security.

What will be expected from me

  • flexibility nad may necessitate occassional evening and weekend work.
  • good keyboard skills
  • support manager to ensure safe delivery of service
  • participate in a telephone on call service on a rota basis with responsibility across the whole service.

Essential requirements

  • Level 3 NVQ care or Diploma
  • Willing to work towards a leadership management level 3/5 qualification
  • Relevant training to meet needs of a CQC regulated service
  • Significant experience of working in a similar setting with learning disabilities.

What can I expect

  • A competitive salary
  • Generous holiday entitlement with the option to buy up to 10 extradays of annual leave
  • Hybrid working (subject to role suitability)
  • Access to high-quality training programs to advance your career to the next level.
  • We are committed to supporting the wellbeing of our staff. We recognise that resilient teams need good work life balance as well as supportive leadership.
  • Discounted and subsidised public transport (Arriva Bus Annual Travel Ticket, Northern Trains Limited (NTL), MetroCard).
  • Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and a Shared Cost Additional Voluntary Contributions (AVC) scheme providing a tax efficient way to increase our pension.
  • Great range of benefits including an Employee Assistant Programme, discounted membership to our excellent leisure facilities with free 12 weeks exercise program, discounts for a range of retail, entertainment, health and leisure providers, a cycle to work scheme, and many more

Salary: £32,418.70 – £34,918.27, Grade 10

Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Sector: Health and Social Care

Sector: Adult Services

Sector: Education

Job Role: Manager

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Posted: June 12th, 2026