Team Leader

Calling All Experienced Team Leaders
- Are you experienced in enabling people with Learning Disabilities to live healthy and fulfilling lives filled with meaningful and rewarding activities?
- Are you an experienced Team Leader with a hands-on approach to team building?
- Do you want to work for a supportive employer who is committed to investing in your future career?

If so, then we have the perfect full-time, permanent, Team Leader position right here for you

Salary negotiable depending on your qualifications and experience

The Opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Team Leader to work full time with a local provider who provides Supported Living Services to people with learning disabilities, autism, mental health, and complex health needs. The provider benefits from a great reputation; locally and with CQC.

About the role

You will be working closely with the Management team as a Team Leader, based locally, which supports service users, with Learning disabilities and Mental Health.

The duties of the Team Leader will include:

- Leading and running the service on a day to day basis
- Providing effective supervision to a small team of Support Workers
- Creating and managing an effective and fair rota to ensure all shifts are covered and any short-term changes are managed promptly
- Ensuring all new starters are inducted effectively and supported through probation
- Provide effective communication with the team with regular team and service user meetings
- To liaise professionally with family members and other professionals as required
- To create, review and update service users care plans and risk assessments
- Safeguarding service users’ rights and dignity
- Organise activities that are suitable for the individual service users
- Leading your team and working with the service users to consistently provide day to day assistance in all aspects of the service users life, in order to enable them to live healthy and fulfilling lives filled with meaningful and rewarding activities

About you
- You will have a suitable Care qualification - ideally NVQ level 3 or equivalent
- You will have at least 2 years’ experience at this level or similar
- You will have previous experience of working with people with Learning Disabilities
- You will have a Full UK driving Licence and use of a car
- You will have the right to work in the UK
- You will be a people person who can forge positive relationships quickly and maintain this over a long time

We can offer you
- A competitive salary and annual leave package
- Travel allowance
- A warm and friendly environment to work within with ongoing support from an encouraging management team.
- Excellent training opportunities to enable you to develop you professional learning.

There is great support offered in this role, with the development of opportunities and ideas to flourish. The Management team have an open-door policy, to ensure an approachable and inclusive team ethos is promoted throughout.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Team Leader who is passionate about what they do and wants to work within a company that has this mind set and who has the best interests of their Service users at heart.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £10.91 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discounts
- Wellness programmes

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- providing care: 1 year (preferred)
- supervisory: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving License (preferred)
- NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care (preferred)