Deputy Enablement Manager – Lymington

PBS4; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A values-led social care organization is seeking a Deputy Enablement Manager in Lymington to support individuals with learning disabilities and lead a team of Enablement Assistants. Responsibilities include direct support, mentoring, and ensuring quality assurance processes. Benefits include 29 days annual leave, training opportunities, and a supportive management team. If you are passionate about helping others and making a difference, this role may be for you!

Benefits

Annual leave increase after one year

Paid induction and training

Employee recognition scheme

£300 referral bonus

Qualifications

• Must be a driver with access to their own vehicle.
• Experience in supporting individuals with learning disabilities or similar.

Responsibilities

• Support individuals directly and mentor Enablement Assistants.
• Ensure quality assurance processes and upskill teams.
• Collaborate with families and external agencies to improve support.

Skills

Driving

Coaching

Mentoring

Team leadership

Job description

Hours per week

36 hours per week – (30 hours on shift and 6 hours of off rota admin per week)

Salary

£15.60 per hour and sleep‑ins paid @ £60 per sleep

Employment Type

Permanent

Requirements

Must be a driver with access to their own vehicle

About the role

We are looking for a passionate, resilient, and highly experienced Deputy Enablement Manager to join our team in Lymington.

Responsibilities

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

• 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

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, earned wage access, and access to various other benefits through our enhanced Employee Assistance Programme. Refer a friend and receive £300.00 for every successful person you refer.

About PBS4

PBS4 is a values‑led social care organisation, providing Neurodisability Services to individuals with Learning Disabilities, Autism and/or behaviours that may challenge. We support people living in their own homes, with their own tenancies, and we utilise Positive Behaviour Support as the framework for the support we provide.

We are a medium‑sized organisation supporting people across Hampshire, Dorset, Berkshire, Somerset, and Oxfordshire and with a workforce of around 350 employees.

The people we support overcome huge challenges every day to achieve exciting things. Some may be big, some may be smaller, but we are committed to celebrating all of these! We are committed to leading by example in how 21st Century clinical support for people with learning disabilities should look. We aim to raise the bar of Positive Behaviour Support in social care!

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.