Team Leader

**Job Title: Team Leader - Children’s service**
**Locations**: Bushbury, Wolverhampton

**Make a difference to Children in our Care: Do you have your Diploma Level 3 in Residential Childcare, and looking for a new challenge in a small Childrens home due to open imminently, if so, we have the role for you.**

**Our home (opening soon) in Wolverhampton is a Childrens residential home in the local community supporting upto two Children/young people in an independant living environment.**
- **Salary: £25,200 - £27,300**:

- **Other benefits: £60 per sleep in**

**Top up your salary: If you do 2 x sleep in's a month you will earn upto £1440 per year on top of above salary.**

**Hours**:Average 40 hours per week (1 on, 2 off day rota)

**Contract**:Permanent

**About us: Care Perspectives** is a specialist provider of care and support to children & young people who have complex mental health disorders, learning disabilities, and emotional and behavioural difficulties. Since we established, we have worked tirelessly to develop services to achieve the best possible outcomes for our children & young people, creating services that nurture independence.

**Job Summary**:
As the **Team Leader** for the Childrens Home, some of your duties will be:

- Working with the Management team to ensure that systems and standards are maintained at a high quality level.
- You will be nominated daily shift lead, by planning organising and ensuring completion of team duties for the day and handover to oncoming shifts.
- You must be able to motivate, support and guidance for staff on duty, on all shifts. Provide Staff supervision and appraisals.
- To provide on call support for staff, from home on a rota basis.
- Organising rotas and ensuring correct deployment of staff team
- To actively promote and take part in social, leisure, educational, life skills, holidays and other activities with children and young people.
- To support each young person to maintain a high standard of personal care; including intimate care, personal hygiene, health and sexual health needs and awareness and any mobility support that is needed.
- To support the medical health needs of children and young people, inclusive of medication administration, medical appointments and therapeutic and mental health and wellbeing needs**.**

This is a great opportunity to _**continue**_ your career in care, working as part of a dedicated team committed to help make a difference. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure, where children and young people are listened to, respected and involved in as many decisions as possible.
- **Essential Skills**_
- Excellent communication
- Flexible and hardworking
- Confident team player
- Kind and caring
- Driving Licence
- **Qualification & Experience**_
- Experience in Residential childcare **(Essential)**:

- Qualified - You **must **hold a Diploma **Level 3 in diploma for residential childcare **or equivalent **(Essential)**
- **Why join us**:_
Here are just some of the benefits of working for us:

- Enhanced sleep-in rates £60 (where applicable)
- Rewarding work helping our Children and young people reach their potential in their daily lives
- Friendly, small passionate teams with supportive working environments
- Career development opportunities to help you reach your own personal development
- Competitive salary including opportunities for additional hours
- We offer a structured 2-week induction programme including face to face training, online modules, shadow shifts
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all staff on a variety of topics
- Free DBS check
- Free parking
- Free meals on shift (residential homes only)
- Recommend a friend referral scheme with financial rewards
- Pension scheme

In return, we offer a rewarding career with opportunities for progression in a fast-growing organisation that is committed to equal opportunities, staff development, retention, and inclusion.

**Salary**: £25,200.00-£27,300.00 per year

Schedule:

- Day shift

Work Location: One location