Home First Team Manager

Job overview

The Home First Team Manager is responsible for the effective day-to-day operation of the Home First service.

This includes leading a multidisciplinary team of assessors, community support workers, and administrative staff to ensure the safe and timely delivery of person-centred care that supports recovery and promotes independence at home.

Please note, this vacancy does not meet the criteria for skilled worker sponsorship and therefore, we are unable to accept applications from candidates that cannot provide documentary evidence of right to work in the United Kingdom.  If you feel you qualify for sponsorship via a discounted salary threshold, please contact us via [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number and how you feel you qualify for a discounted salary threshold.

Main duties of the job

Oversee the planning and coordination of staff rotas, ensuring appropriate deployment of support workers and assessors across the locality to meet service demands.

Monitor service delivery to ensure it aligns with Home First priorities and complies with CQC standards, organisational procedures, and national regulatory framework

Hold responsibility for the management of a defined caseload, ensuring timely assessments, support planning, and discharge coordination.

Provide direct line management to Band 5 and Band 4 Home First Assessors, community-based support workers, and admin staff, ensuring they are well-supported, supervised, and developed in line with service expectations.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Find out more about the community difference here.

Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.