- Advertised from 1st July 2022
- £10.24 per hour, part-time 25 hours per week
Role
Do you have a passion for making people feel welcome and a gift for hospitality?
Join us as a Café Supervisor at our new project at Ashbrook, a Victorian villa in North Edinburgh, which includes a dementia friendly café and conference and training rooms available for hire. There are also formal gardens and woodland which will be used for a therapeutic recovery garden.
Ashbrook is directly adjacent to the Salvation Army’s Eagle Lodge Home for Older People and some of our café customers are residents of the Lodge and their families. We are marketing the café to the wider community and to organisations in the city who support people and families experiencing dementia.
Ashbrook Café is a light and airy space offering a friendly and accessible space, serving light lunches and home baking. Everyone is welcome, especially those whose lives are touched by dementia. We want to create an environment where people of every generation can come together, learning each other’s life experiences, and enjoying each other’s company.
You will/may be able to demonstrate:
- Experience of running a catering outlet or hospitality service
- Knowledge of health and hygiene legislation (training also given)
- A patient manner, able to support people who may appear confused or have difficulty communicating to enjoy the café (training given)
- Experience of working with volunteers in a catering setting
- Ability to present food in an attractive and enticing manner
- Ability to manage a till and contactless card payment system (training given)
Benefits: 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro rata for part-time); a contributory pension scheme; season ticket loan; an employee assistance programme
Appointment subject to Satisfactory References, proof of right to work in the UK and Disclosure Scotland/ PVG Scheme Membership Check.
As a disability confident scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.
Please note that we do not consider CVs.
Promoting equality in the workplace.
Application notes
Closing date: 20th July 2022
To apply, please click on the following link bit.ly/3ywoOas
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About the role
As the Registered Manager, you will be an experienced leader leading a team working with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.
As the Registered Manager you will:
- Maintain the continuing relevance of services to individuals’ needs and purchaser requirements by ongoing planning, monitoring and evaluation.
- Oversee the financial aspects of the service, managing significant budgets, ensuring efficient use of resources and making financial decisions.
- Where a need or an opportunity is identified, lead on the development of new services, support business growth and maintain reputational excellence.
- Comply with governance, law and legislation including local authority compliance, Care Inspectorate (at level 5 and above), SSSC and safeguarding procedures.
- Support the senior management team in the streamlining, promotion and monitoring of quality assurance systems which meets the needs of individual services as well as the overall service delivery in the region.
- Develop, monitor and implement supervision and appraisal systems for staff.
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You should also have:
- Experience of working with vulnerable people and leading a service delivery team, including managing the provision of a safe operating environment in a relevant context.
- The ability to negotiate with a wide range of internal and external partners and build positive relationships including local authorities and housing associations.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to effectively prioritise your own time and workload to meet a number of different and competing tasks in sometimes pressurised environment.
- Social Service and Health Care at level 9 (SCQF) or other speciality/qualification recognised by the SSSC for registration purposes as well as a relevant management qualification.
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