Children's Team Leader Nights Position
7 days ago
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Competitive salary, including sleep-in shifts
Specific Hours: 42 hours per week, shift pattern on rotation
We are seeking an experienced Residential Team Leader to join our services based in Carlisle.
Polaris Community is a well-established local provider of therapeutic residential care and education for boys aged 6-18. Our mission is to improve the resilience, self-esteem, and abilities of all the young people we work with.
The role of a Team Leader is to create a purposeful, caring, therapeutic, and learning environment for our young people, by applying high professional standards of care and support for their social, emotional, and/or behavioural needs, and mental health and learning difficulties.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Supervise and support the continued professional development of a small team of staff.
- Lead a shift, making well-judged decisions in line with care plans.
- Deputise for the Registered Manager in holiday periods.
- Carry out supervisions of individuals and support for key workers.
- Manage the daily needs of the children.
- Take part in rostered sleep-in duties, as required.
- Develop programmes that will improve children's progress and interaction.
- Work with the young people in a caring and nurturing manner, developing relationships based on trust, confidence, and understanding.
- 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.
- 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 3 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.
- 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.
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