Team Leader

Overview:
**Change Grow Live** are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives. Our core values are

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**Team Leaders** here at Change Grow Live play an integral role in ensuring an effective service provision for our service users by creating a focussed culture, engaging staff to provide an innovative and continually improving service and provide leadership, support, and development to a wide range of staff.

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a
**Team**
**Leader **to join our
**Nottinghamshire Team**. As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will work flexibly and creatively to establish what is needed to have the most positive impact for all who are referred to our service.

**Where**: Nottinghamshire

**Hours**: 37.5 Fixed Term Contract (12 Months)

**Salary**: £33,365,47 - £35,226,32

**Responsibilities**:
**About the role**:

- To provide regular supervision and line management to identified team members and contribute to the delivery of a quality service.
- To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with appropriate local partners to ensure quality delivery.
- To support and guide the team to assess clients, prepare individual plans and motivate service users to actively engage.
- To ensure that the team has a dynamic outreach approach and are constantly seeking out areas of need and employing appropriate responses.
- To ensure equality of service provision throughout the service.
- To uphold all CGL policies and procedures and actively promote equality of opportunity in the course of your work.
- To maintain a safe and welcoming environment ensuring health and safety standards are adhered to.
- To ensure regular consultation with service users.
- To collaborate effectively with partner agencies and bring a proactive approach to partnership work.
- To identify relevant partners and develop work strategies to ensure the needs of young people are being met.
- To inspire and motivate team members to ensure an engaged and unified working culture.
- To identify learning and development needs of team members and to support them in achieving their learning requirements.
- To take a lead on performance management, utilising tools such as observed practise and implementing effective support and action plans where improvement needs are identified.
- To develop internal strategies and processes the team will use to meet the requirements of the contract.
- To work together with managers from Social Care, Youth Justice Service, and other relevant partners to develop activity within their services.
- To monitor budget expenditure in conjunction with the Service manager in particular, client costs, staff expenses and phone and office costs.
- To work with the service manager to maintain strong governance and monitoring systems.
- To manage projects from beginning to completion demonstrating effective decision-making skills, delegation, risk management and evaluation.
- To delegate workloads evenly and ensure contingencies are in place for busy periods.
- To lead on safeguarding as the designated safeguarding lead and establish a learning environment where staff feel empowered to explore safeguarding issues, review the assessment of risk and identify cases for escalation with appropriate action taken.
- To work with the service manager to ensure the child’s voice is at the centre of all work carried out.
- To train professionals internally and externally upon request and in relation to the issues surrounding YP substance misuse and impact of parental substance misuse (Hidden Harm).
- To work collaboratively across the service with CGL colleagues such as psychologist, social workers, and recovery workers to ensure a joined up, all age family approach to achieve positive outcomes for families.
- To attend relevant CGL forums
- To undertake any other duties as instructed by the line manager/s that will contribute to fulfilling the project aims.

**About you**:

- Experience of working with children and young people experiencing difficulties around Substance misuse.
- Knowledge of the issues facing children, young people and their families affected by substance misuse.
- Excellent knowledge of drugs and alcohol and their effects.
- Line management experience including the delivery of reflective supervision.
- The ability to lead, empower and motivate a team.
- Experience of project management.
- Excellent knowledge of safeguarding policies and practices relating to children and young people and experience of embedding these operationally.
- The ability to foster new partnerships and to maintain positive relationships with partner agencies.
- Knowledge of a range of psychosocial and clinical interventions, including Motivational interviewing techniques and ITEP.
- Knowledge and understanding around the ‘Hidden Harm’ agenda.
- Knowledge and experience of community-based support/outreach practices.
- Ability to ensure all record keeping, ou