Deputy Service Manager

About The Role

Deputy Service Manager Doune, with regular travel to Falkirk Lead with purpose. Inspire people. Make every moment matter. At Swanton, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live a fulfilling and independent life. We're looking for a passionate and motivated Deputy Service Manager to help lead our two supported Living services in Doune and Falkirk.

Please note: internally, this position is known as a Scheme Manager This is an exciting opportunity to make a genuine difference every day. Working alongside the Registered Manager, you'll help create a positive culture, empower colleagues to thrive, and ensure the people we support achieve their goals, aspirations and greater independence.

You'll be a visible leader across your locality, supporting service quality, compliance, performance and team development while ensuring person-centred support remains at the heart of everything we do. At the centre of our approach are our values: Potential

• Responsibility
• Integrity
• Diversity
• Empathy These values guide our commitment to making a meaningful difference so that, for the people we support, their families, and our colleagues, Every Moment Does Matter.

About the Role

As Deputy Service Manager, you'll play a key role in the day-to-day leadership and success of your services. You'll support the Registered Manager to deliver outstanding care and support, develop high-performing teams, maintain excellent quality standards, and drive positive outcomes for the people we support. You'll be someone who leads by example, inspires confidence, and brings energy, compassion and accountability to everything you do.

What You'll Do

✅ Lead, motivate and develop a dedicated team to provide high-quality, person-centred support ✅ Promote a positive culture where our values are lived every day ✅ Support recruitment, induction, training, supervision and performance development ✅ Ensure people we support are empowered to achieve their personal goals and aspirations ✅ Build strong relationships with families, professionals, commissioners and community partners ✅ Monitor and maintain high standards of quality, compliance and governance ✅ Support financial performance, budgets, occupancy and resource management ✅ Manage incidents, complaints and service improvements effectively ✅ Ensure safe, effective and compassionate support is delivered consistently ✅ Participate in the on-call rota and provide hands-on leadership when required ✅ Help drive continuous improvement and innovation across services What We're Looking For We're looking for someone who: Has experience in a leadership role within health and social care Is passionate about delivering outstanding person-centred support Can inspire, coach and develop others Has strong communication and relationship-building skills Is organised, resilient and solution-focused Understands quality, compliance and safeguarding responsibilities Shares our commitment to inclusion, dignity, respect and compassion Why Join Swanton?

We know our people are our greatest asset, so we invest in helping you succeed. ✨ Exclusive employee discounts on leading brands ✨ Paid mileage and local travel ✨ Excellent career progression opportunities ✨ Fully paid training and ongoing professional development ✨ Generous holiday entitlement ✨ 24/7 wellbeing and mental health support ✨ Pension scheme ✨ Long service recognition awards ✨ Monthly prize draws ✨ £400 Refer-a-Friend Scheme* (*T&Cs apply) Ready to Make a Difference?

This is more than a job. It's an opportunity to lead, inspire and positively impact the lives of the people we support every single day. Apply today and join Swanton in making every moment matter. About The Service We have 2 Supported Living services located in Scotland, providing person-centred care to young adults who have a primary diagnosis of a learning disability and may also have mental health or autism support needs and behaviours that can challenge.

Our Services are led by the Registered Manager who has a wealth of experience within the sector; committed and devoted to developing excellence and talent. Everyone should be free to live the life they want to. We want to provide a service where we truly listen to the people we support and act on what they say. Be a crucial part of helping them develop their service from scratch and help someone to live the life they dream of every day.

If this excites and inspires you then please apply to come and join us. We are currently expanding our services in Scotland, this is a great opportunity for your to join our growing and dynamic team