Care Team Leader

Are you an experienced and passionate care professional, ready to take the next step in your career to meet the challenge of this exciting role?

**Job title**:Care Team Leader

**Type**: Full time, working across day and night shifts

**Rate of pay**: £12.80 per hour

**Location**: outside Slamannan, Falkirk (FK1 postcode)

**About our service**

We are a unique service located in Scotland, supporting young adults who have a primary diagnosis of a learning disability and may also have mental health or autism support needs and behaviours that can challenge.

**About you**

Do you have previous experience working in care, leading a team and want to further your development within a Team Leader role which has fantastic career prospects?
- **‘Potential, Responsibility, Integrity, Diversity, Empathy’**_

This is an opportunity for a pro-active Team Leader to join an evolving Care Company. You will need to have previous experience of working within a care role and experience of leading a team. Previous job experience may include Care Coordinator, Senior Support Worker or Support Worker.

Having a driver's licence is desirable due to the location of our service.

**The role**

Whilst fully embracing the company ethos the Care Team Leader will support the Deputy and Registered Manager by leading the day-to-day management of a service.

To supervise and lead allocated Key and Co-Workers for individual people we support.

Demonstrate positive, proactive, and organised people skills, that will support and develop the skills of the Support Workers, to ensure they deliver their agreed personal, and business objectives, which will include recruitment, induction, supervision, annual appraisals, skills analysis, and training development needs. Other areas of practice may include, but not exclusively, sickness and absence management and rota management.

Thorough understanding of the requirements of the regulator and be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of how these requirements are met within the service. You will take the lead to help Support Workers also understand their responsibilities and by doing so ensure that safe, effective, caring, responsive and well lead support and care is always delivered.

To support the Registered Manager in managing transitions into and away from the service. To help ensure that care either way is not interrupted and is seamless for the individual. You will be able to liaise professionally with all outside professional agencies and ensure that all information is shared appropriately.

**What we can offer**:

- **Refer a friend scheme **we know that amazing people often know fantastic people and you will receive £400 each time a successful referral is made
- **Golden Hello **receive a £100 bonus if you complete your e-learning prior to your start date
- **Long service awards **we recognise your contribution to the team and award long service
- **Employee benefits app **stay connected to our community, receive discounts across everyday and luxury shops, access information about learning & development opportunities
- **Pension and life cover **auto enrol into our pension scheme and entitled to the death in service benefit
- **Funded qualifications **earn whilst you learn we aim to develop our own talent, giving you the opportunity to develop your career with Swanton
- **Trained mental health first aiders & EAP **free confidential access to 24hr assistance program for counselling, advice and support
- You will be required to undergo relevant pre-employment checks including a PVG._

SWINDTL

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

**Salary**: £12.80 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Cycle to work scheme
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Night shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Falkirk, Falkirk: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- providing care / support: 2 years (preferred)
- supervisory: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

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

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: One location