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Improvement

1. (= progreso) improvement | 2. (= aumento) increase. mejoras de productividad increases in productivity | 3. mejoras. (= obras) improvements ⧫ alterations

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This platform offers Social Care Providers a Competency Framework that has been designed and developed to enable the benchmarking of a registered care professionals competences at any point in their career against the requirements of the role.

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A career in Social Care is rewarding in so many ways. Improving your natural skills and values gives more than just reassurance, it gives recognition through your career journey. 

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Registered Managers are expected to be leaders and have a comprehensive understanding of business, marketing, finance and HR, as well as keeping fully up to date with care and support related legislation and regulation. 

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Zainab Saleem is a Deputy Manager at the Care Company Plus. After graduating from university, Zainab’s care career began in a HR role before progressing to a more senior role.

Why I wanted to become a manager, Staff that are genuinely caring, knowledgeable and kind. Who work together to deliver high standards of care. We develop relationships with our residents, listen to them and ensure they have personalised care.

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Personal

Demonstrate ability to make clear decisions and deal with challenges positively, while clearly and persuasively communicating, shows resilience, drive and initiative while being fair and consistent.

Confidence & Judgement

Ability to make clear decisions and deals positively with challenges. Decisive, manages own feelings conflicts and setbacks.

Communication & Influence

Ability to communicate clearly and persuasively to people inside and outside the organisation. Negotiates win/wins. Influences inside and outside the organisation.

Commitment & Drive

Ability to take the initiative and achieve objectives. Shows initiative and sets and meets challenging goals.

Integrity

Ability to be fair and consistent, do what you say you are going to do both inside and outside the organisation.

Planning & Organisation

Ability to define priorities and organise resources to deliver them effectively. Shows attention to detail, sets priorities and plans ahead.

Analytical Thinking

Ability to sift information, draw conclusions and develop a practical way forward. Perform complex and strategic analyses.

People

Consistently and proactively co-operates with others, offers support and improves effectiveness in daily operations.

Team Working

Co-operates with others, offers support and works to improve team effectiveness and contributes effectively to cross functional teams.

Leading Your Team

Encourages participation, manages performance, communicates a compelling vision and represents the team externally.

Developing & Coaching Others

Able to identify training needs, delegates appropriately, coaches others and develops organisational capability.

Business Management & Development

Balances commercial expectations consistently alongside the delivery of high quality care and support.

Customer Focus

Shows respect to customers, deals proactively with their needs and problems, seeks feedback and continually improves the service.

Innovation & Market Awareness

Understands the market, the political, social and economic climate. Recognises opportunities and are entrepreneurial.

Technical

Demonstrates the required technical and range of management skills.

People & Professional

Continually demonstrates knowledge and behaviours that reflect the organisation’s Philosophy, Diversity & Inclusion and Equality principles.

Values & Ethics

Behaviour always reflects the organisation’s Philosophy and Equality principles.

Leadership

Provides visible leadership to ensure all members of staff work to their highest potential.

Relationships

Works to maintain constructive and productive relationships with all business contacts.

Practice

Supports the delivery of up to date practise through procedural, training and supervision processes.

Health & Social Care Act

Knowledgeable about own duties and ensures home and facilities are safe for residents, visitors and staff. Assess risks and maximises freedom. Speaks in an informed way about the home. 

MCA – DoLS

Ensures capacity judgements are made legally and recorded. Understands and applies the Mental Capacity Act principles and DoLS continually to deliver safe and quality care to residents.

Audit & Governance

Actively uses all audit and scrutiny systems and inspection data to deliver service improvements.

Technology

Continuously demonstrates knowledge of digital tools and maximises their use to drive efficiency and effectiveness.

Software & Equipment

Competent practitioner in using relevant Software, Devices and Equipment.

Quality

Continually demonstrates behaviours that uphold the organisation’s Philosophy of Care, Diversity & Inclusion and cultural ethos across the service.

Culture

Demonstrates behaviours that uphold the organisation’s Philosophy of Care.

Improvement

Responds promptly to opportunities for improvement and sees continuous improvement as key success indicators.

Planning

Contributes to, and completes annual business planning with SMART targets to ensure continuous improvement in service delivery.

Operational Planning

Demonstrates commitment to annual business planning activities and aligns with the organisation’s key objectives, clear and concise communication when producing reports.

Reporting & Communication

Produces concise and clear reports to describe service position and proposes achievable recommendations.

Marketing

Consistently maximises the home’s occupancy in line with organisational strategies.

Development

Demonstrates project management ability, proposes development ideas and is capable at negotiation, contributing to winning contracts.

Negotiation

Represents the organisation with Local Authority and Private Individuals to agree service contracts.

Influence

Uses written and presentational skills to affect improvements in relationships.

Service Delivery

Consistently ensures and delivers high quality compliant services for the benefit of residents.

Legal

Consistently ensures legal and regulatory compliance, health & safety practises and measures are up to date and in place for auditing and inspections.

Environment

Monitors and maintains the Service for compliance.
Service is ready and compliant at all times for audits and inspections.

Health & Safety

Ensures systems are secure and up to date. Staff are informed and know what to do when required.

Business Skills

Finance, Human Resources Management, Legal, Marketing, Planning, Quality, Technology.

Budget

Participates in budget development.

Control

Proactively monitors and controls spending, proposing virements (administrative transfer of budgetary funds).

Analysis

Can read financial spreadsheet and interpret contents.

Reporting

Reports on time, activities and variations.

Human Resource

Shows capability to address staffing needs, including recruitment, retention, induction and staff personal development.

Recruit & Retain

Promptly fills vacancies, inducts develops and supervises staff.

Performance

Challenges poor practise and performance, recording actions and using the organisation’s HR policies and procedures appropriately.

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