Residential Team Leader

3 days ago

Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom North Lakes Full time
Job Title: Residential Team Leader

We are seeking an experienced Residential Team Leader to join our team at North Lakes Children's Services. As a key member of our staff, you will play a vital role in creating a purposeful, caring, and therapeutic environment for our young people.

About the Role:

The Residential Team Leader will be responsible for supervising and supporting a small team of staff, leading shifts, and making well-judged decisions in line with care plans. You will also be responsible for providing support and advice to staff, managing the daily running of the team, and carrying out supervisions of individuals and support for key workers.

Main Duties:
  • Provide support and advice to staff as required and manage the daily running of the team.
  • Support and deputise for the Deputy Manager as and when required.
  • Carry out supervisions of individuals and support for key workers.
  • Manage monies for activities.
  • Manage the daily needs of the children.
  • Monitor and check staff to ensure they carry out their duties.
  • Take part in rostered sleep-in duties as required.
  • Develop programmes that will improve children's progress and interaction.
  • Link programmes of study with national recognised vocational qualifications.
  • Work with the young people in a caring and nurturing manner, developing relationships based on trust, confidence, and understanding.
  • Assist in sustaining peer relationships within the home and promoting aspects of a young person's individual programme through growing personal resilience and empathy.
  • Plan with, join in with, and encourage all young people in educational, recreational, occupational, and social activities.
  • Work as part of a team and provide support and encouragement for colleagues as well as the young people and help build a strong child-focused team.
  • Work from your own initiative, in line with all risk assessments, care plans, and emotional and behavioural plans to progress the therapeutic goals of a child.
  • Help young people to develop their independent Living/Life Skills.
  • Prepare, implement, and review programmes designed to aid a child's development and personalise their care plans.
  • Induct newly admitted young people, making them feel welcome and validated as important members of their new home.
  • Help plan and prepare young people when moving on from the home, for their future including balancing risk with opportunity.
  • Enable young people to recognise a wide range of emotions, to help them to name how they feel, notice where it manifests in their body and how they experience specific emotions.
  • Use interventions aimed at a child's presenting stage of development to create a plan to aid emotional regulation. To be aware of the age of the initial trauma and nurture the younger child within.
  • Recognise vulnerability and see through presenting behavioural choices.
  • Liaise effectively with outside partners (parents, placing agencies, other professionals etc.) as necessary, including attendance at reviews and home visits where appropriate.
  • Be aware and adhere to current Health & Safety regulations in relation to use of machinery, equipment, and substances, and in keeping the house a home.
  • Be a keyworker to some of the young people, which requires the monitoring, supporting, developing, and implementing of the young person's individual placement plan, encouraging and advising on relationships and emotional health and well-being.
Requirements:
  • Have an understanding of the issues that face young people in care.
  • Hold Residential Childcare/Families Practitioner Diploma/Children and Young People's Workforce/NVQ Level in Health & Social Care or equivalent.
  • Excellent communication and listening skills.
  • Be willing to learn.
  • Be able to work well as part of a small team.
  • Be willing to undertake a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position. Your DBS check shall be paid for by ourselves.
  • Experience with Emotional Behavioural Disorder, Social/Residential Work or Youth Work would be advantageous.
  • Have a full, clean UK driving licence and be able to cover at other Residential Homes as and when needed.
Benefits:
  • A sleep-in allowance of £. per night- potential extra earning of up to £.
  • Shift Rotation: days on, days off, with staggered start times ranging from am, noon or pm (, pm-pm or pm-pm).
  • weeks annual leave entitlement.
  • Company pension.
  • Progression in professional development opportunity, through an HABC level diploma in leadership and management residential care.
  • Access to our Employee Discount Scheme, including discounts at various well-known retail companies.
  • Access to wellbeing supports via our Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Monthly clinical and professional supervisions, access to therapeutic support.
  • Overtime and additional holiday pay at Christmas day and New Year's Day.
  • Career progression opportunities.
  • Comprehensive annual training including: Child Development, Attachment Theory, PACE Model, Therapeutic Parenting, The Whole Brain Child Model.

North Lakes is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position.

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