Deputy Manager - Community Engagement, Co production and Volunteering

About Outward        

For more than 45 years, Outward has been providing high-quality support and care services to vulnerable people in London and has grown from strength-to-strength. We believe in engaging, enabling and empowering the people we support to make positive choices, have genuine control over their lives, play an active role in the community, take advantage of opportunities to develop as individuals and live the lives they want.

About the Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced deputy manager whose passion is advocating for and supporting people with learning disabilities to fulfil their potential.

The Community engagement, Co production and Volunteering team work to ensure that Outwards values to engage, enable and empower are fulfilled across the organisation by implementing our Co production strategy, running Person We Support Committee, employing people we support as quality checkers and recruiting and matching volunteers to work in our services.

 We are looking for enthusiastic, creative and committed individual to join the teams. If you feel you can bring a fresh approach, some new ideas and a commitment to supporting vulnerable people to have genuine control over their lives, play an active role in the community and develop as individual’s then we want to hear from you. 

As a Temporary Deputy Manager your duties will include:

• Supporting our Quality Checkers to audit services and writing up reports
• Supporting our co-trainers to present at Welcome days
• Supporting co-trainers to take part in support planning training
• Managing and supervising Volunteers
• Recruiting, onboarding and training Volunteers
• Implementing our team plan
• Co-ordinating People We Support Satisfaction Surveys

We are a forward thinking organisation, committed to providing the best support possible to vulnerable people therefore you will be provided with comprehensive training and will be supported every step of the way to develop your career with us.

Benefits

We value everything our staff do for the people we support, so we provide a great benefits package:

• 25 days Annual Leave excluding Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time)
• Comprehensive Learning & Development Programme
• Computing Scheme
• Credit Union Scheme
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme
• Death in Service Benefit
• Health Assured – Employee Assistance Programme
• Eye care Vouchers
• Flu Jab Reimbursement
• Long Service Awards
• Pension Scheme
• Purchase Additional Annual Leave
• Refer-a-Friend Scheme
• Retirements
• Loans (including season tickets and parking permit loans)
• Blue Light Card

Outward is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff to share this commitment.  If the post you apply for involves working with or having access to adults at risk and/or their records, we will require an Enhanced Disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Services for successful candidates. This will be fully subsidised by Outward.

How to Apply

If you think you are who we are looking for, please submit a statement detailing how you meet the requirements of the role by referring to the Job Description and the Person Specification. You can do this by following the link below:

Closing Date for all Applications is 25^th October 2024

Interviews will be held week commencing 1^st November 2024

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community.