Team Leader

**Join our fantastic residential care family and change the lives of children with additional learning needs and autism.**

**Job Title:

Residential Childcare Team Leader**

**Location:

- Kinsale School, Holywell**

**Salary:

- Up to £28,593.60 per annum**

**Hours:

40 hours per week**

**Contract:

- Permanent**

**Can you enrich the lives of young people as a Team Leader?**

We are looking for a caring, responsible, experienced Team Leader to join our fantastic team at Kinsale, Kinsale Hall, Holywell, Wales, CH8 9DX.

As Team Leader, you will lead a team of Support Workers who care for our children and young people 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 children with varied and complex needs. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure, and you will be working in a setting where wemaintain a strong safeguarding culture, where children and young people 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 children and young people in our care. You will design, implement, and monitor the care and education plans to meet the individualneeds of our children and young people, ensuring that key life and independent skills are achieved in the enriching and positive environment we strive to create.

Quality is always top of our agenda, and we pride ourselves on the quality of what we do.

We are looking for a Team Leader with previous experience of managing teams in a residential care setting, who shares our vision to build incredible futures by empowering vulnerable young people in the UK, to be happy and to make their way in the world.

Already qualified with Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent, you will be a calm, engaging, resilient leader, diligent with quality and compliance, and motivated to bring your experience to a team that is passionate about providing a safe,caring environment where every child can thrive.

**About us**:
Kinsale is located in a stunning rural location, overlooking the Dee Estuary. Our school provides specialist education and care for up to 25 students, aged 8 - 19 having a range of complex needs including ASC and ADHD, in addition to impaired social or cognitivefunctioning due to early life trauma and attachment difficulties.

For over 16 years Options Autism have provided care and education to children, young people and adults with autism, complex needs and learning difficulties. As part of Outcomes First Group, we are leading our sector in setting and delivering new approachesthat provide measurable outcomes for those in our care.

**Why join us?**

We offer a friendly and inclusive working environment and the chance to be part of a fantastic multidisciplinary team, who work hard and support each other to deliver personalised, bespoke education & care. Our benefits package includes free parking, shoppingdiscounts and cashback via our ‘Rewards Hub’, and access to content on mindfulness, fitness, recipes and much more as part of our ‘Your Wellbeing Matters’ programme.

As well as opportunities for internal promotion, you will have access to high-quality Continuing Professional Development to help pursue your own personal goals. We also offer accredited training programmes including Diplomas and NVQs, supplemented by ongoinglearning opportunities.

Ultimately, all our roles give you the opportunity to enrich the lives of young people and make a positive difference.

**Application process & dates