Adult Care Team Leader

**How would you like to be paid for 100% of your contractual hours, but only work 80%?**

**Role: Adult Care Team Leader**

**Salary**: **Up to £28,275.00 per annum**

**Hours: 43.5 hours per week**

**Shift Pattern: Week 1 - Monday, Tuesday, Saturday, Sunday**

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Week 2 - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday**

**Location: Middleton, Cumbria**

**Your wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do at OFG, so we’re always looking for new ways to improve everyone’s work/life balance.**

**We’re taking part in a trial of the 4-Day Working Week, meaning that you could be working one day less a week (or equivalent).**

**If the trial is a success, we’ll be rolling the 4DWW out across the Group - so there’s never been a more exciting time to join #teamOFG**

Options Autism are recruiting an Adult Care Team Leader to join our team within the Middleton area. Our registered independent home offers residential care for vulnerable adults with autism, complex needs and learning disabilities.

The homes is based in Middleton, and is within commuting distance from Kirkby Lonsdale, Lancaster, Morecambe, Kendal and surrounds.

**Benefits: **we want our residents to have the best care possible, and therefore strive to look after our employees to make this possible. You’ll get an exceptional reward package that includes:

- **Funded qualifications**
- Up to £28,275.00 per annum
- Annual Leave Entitlement equivalent to 5.6 weeks per year (with options to purchase more)
- Life Assurance
- Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
- “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And market leading benefits offering through our **Flexible Benefits Platform** Vista that enable you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

- A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
- 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Electric Car Purchase Scheme
- Critical illness cover

Plus, outstanding development and support starting with our award-winning induction programme, to supporting you with specialist qualifications and best in class management development and hi potential programmes, so you can flourish and develop your fullpotential.

**About the Home**:
Middleton Fells is a brand-new service situated in a beautiful rural location, seven miles from the market town of Kirkby Lonsdale and four miles from the town of Sedbergh. Just a 9-minute drive from the M6, the site has great links with Lancaster, Kendaland the Lake District. Middleton Fells provides high quality residential accommodation for adults with additional needs.

Middleton Fells provides a year-round residential home to people aged 18 to 64 with Autism Spectrum conditions and learning disabilities.

**Who are we are looking for?**

We are looking for a caring, responsible, experienced Team Leader to join our fantastic team at Middleton Fells.

As Team Leader, you will lead a team of Support Workers who care for our young adults in their daily lives, ensuring they are safe, comfortable, and healthy.

This is a great opportunity to progress your career in care, working as part of a team committed to helping young adults with varied and complex needs. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure and you will be working in a setting wherewe maintain a strong safeguarding culture, where our young adults are listened to, respected, and involved in as many decisions as possible.

Our Team Leaders carry out an essential and varied role, leading a team to provide the individual, bespoke, support required by the young adults in our care. You will design, implement, and monitor the care and education plans to meet the individual needsof our young adults, ensuring that key life and independent skills are achieved in the enriching and positive environment we strive to create.

Being exceptional is just a call away.

**What we need from you**:

- Full and valid UK Driving Licence
- Access to a car
- Right to Work in the UK
- Currently hold an Adult Care Worker Level 2 Apprenticeship or NVQ equivalent.
- Passionate about caring for young adults, and to support them to reach their full potential

*You’ll work 80% of your contractual hours for 100% of your pay, more time for you Dependent upon site location.