Deputy Manager

Deputy Manager

Job reference:005216

Salary:£25,203.17

Closing date:31/03/2026

Location:Bursledon

Job Description

Ready to take the next step in your care career?

We’re excited to offer an opportunity for a Deputy Manager to join our warm and welcoming team in Bursledon.

You’ll be part of a close-knit service, supporting six incredible adults aged 30–65 with learning disabilities to live fulfilling, meaningful lives in their own home. This is a full-time role working across a 24/7 rota, including weekend working, on-call duties, and shifts split between office-based responsibilities and hands-on support on the floor.

About the role

As Deputy Manager, you’ll work in partnership with the Service Manager to deliver high-quality, creative, and truly person-centred support. Together, you’ll ensure the people we support are empowered to live lives that make sense to them.

You’ll play a key role in leading and developing a team of Support Workers, providing hands-on guidance, coaching, and encouragement. This is a visible leadership role where you’ll be actively involved in day-to-day support while helping to shape a positive, motivated team culture.

You’ll also:

• Build strong, professional relationships with families, social workers, and other stakeholders

• Support staff development through supervisions, appraisals, and ongoing mentoring

• Help maintain high standards of care, compliance, and record-keeping

• Contribute to a supportive, inclusive, and forward-thinking environment

About you

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has previous supervisory experience in social care

• Is organised, flexible, and confident in a leadership role

• Brings a positive, proactive approach to supporting others

• Has good attention to detail and is comfortable using Microsoft Word and Excel

• Is passionate about making a genuine difference in people’s lives

Why join us?

You’ll be joining a friendly, supportive team where your ideas are valued, your development is encouraged, and the work you do truly matters every day.

If you’re ready to step into a rewarding leadership role and help shape exceptional support, we’d love to hear from you.

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What we need from you

You’ll have experience supporting people with learning disabilities and/or autism, and, ideally, you’ve managed a team before. You’re passionate about helping the people who draw on our support to reach their full potential and will make sure MacIntyre’s values are at the heart of everything you and your team do. You’ll bring fresh, creative ideas to motivate and inspire both staff and the people we support, along with their families, upholding our service's excellent reputation.

Our location in Bursledon is not easily accessible by public transport, so you must be a driver with a UK manual licence to travel to work and unlock opportunities for the people who draw on our support.

About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since. We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.

"Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorships as we await further guidance from the Home Office. Applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered at this time. We appreciate your understanding."

Training and Development

At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.

But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)

How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.

Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call usand we will send an application form to you.

Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.

Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.

MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked “Accessibility” at the top of the screen.

COVID-19 Information

We will take every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process and your employment with MacIntyre. We encourage all our employees to follow Government advice and get vaccinated against COVID and flu. If you are a frontline care worker, you are on the priority list for vaccination.