Job Description

Permanent.

35 hours per week

Based in Clapham Junction, SW11 1JL

The role

The Wellbeing Manager’s strategic responsibility is to represent Share in various fora, including clinical reference groups and other strategy groups and to lead Share’s journey towards becoming a National Autistic Society accredited Centre of Excellence. 

Day to day, the Wellbeing Manager is responsible for the managing each student’s journey through Share, from initial enquiry through to moving on, and ensures that students’ individual and collective voices are heard.  This includes assessing applicants’ needs, arranging show-rounds and taster sessions, recording and monitoring each person’s contacts with Share, representing Share at students’ social services reviews, contributing to our outreach programme and events, and advising staff members as to individual students’ needs. 

There is a considerable amount of pastoral work involved in this role, and a focus on working within and facilitating circles of support for individual students. The Wellbeing Manager oversees the development of our Outcomes Star evaluation tool.

About us

At Share, we’re passionate about supporting disabled people to set their own goals for learning and life, and then helping them to achieve their aspirations and reach their potential.  We focus on 4 key areas: health and wellbeing; independence, choice and control; work; and community, leisure, and social inclusion. We’re a pan-disability organisation, but the majority of our students are adults with learning disabilities and/or autism. We offer a range of training, employment, personal development, and leisure opportunities.

What we are looking for

Our ideal candidate will have:

• At least 3 years experience of working with disabled people, ideally in an educational or social care setting
• The ability to assess people’s needs within a person-centred framework
• Experience of monitoring and evaluating programmes and/or interventions
• Previously line managed staff
• Great listening and facilitation skills, with exceptional levels of warmth and empathy
• The ability to empower and inspire others – both clients and colleagues
• Great organisational skills, resilience and the ability to juggle a varied and complex workload
• Excellent ICT skills, and a love of databases
• Knowledge of social services and the introduction of self-directed support and personal budgets
• Understanding of best practice in working with autistic people
• Knowledge of the barriers facing disabled people seeking to move into independent living and employment and an understanding of what helps, and what hinders disabled people to become fully socially included

How to apply

Please complete our application form and equal opportunities and submit via email, before the closing date of 10am on Thursday 5th October 2017.