Residential Team Leader

**Residential Support Worker**

We are currently seeking dedicated and experienced Residential support workers to join a brand-new children's home that is set to open in Derby.

**Responsibilities**
- To provide shift management and support to the team, in line with company policy and regulatory requirements. Supervising and providing guidance, support, direction and leadership to staff; ensuring tasks are effectively completed.
- To Model best practice approaches during challenging behaviours, ensuring there are coherent and consistently high levels of care.
- Work directly with others in the middle management team for the best interest of the young people, staff, and company.
- To ensure the care plans, risk assessments and key working sessions are up to date and effectively implemented daily representing best practices and reflective of the child’s views wishes and feelings.
- Establish and use methods to evaluate the quality of care provided by staff within the home and to make improvements where necessary, encouraging continuous improvement; and providing accurate and timely feedback to team members of actions and behaviours
- Model the best practice approaches to working with and supporting children with challenging behaviours and build staff confidence.
- Ensure a regular use of effective handovers and debriefs for staff.
- Take responsibility for ensuring all daily tasks are complete, along with health and safety checks.
- Participate in the transition process for children in and out of the home.
- Regularly review the staffing structure and support HR with recruitment, induction, and training.
- Support the Manager to regularly review the budget needs within the home where appropriate and shadow management as and when necessary to develop skills.
- Ensure daily practice within the homes reflects the equality and diversity goals of the company and the needs of the staff and young people
- Work effectively with all professionals and multiple agencies that are required for the best care of the young people.
- Work effectively with all professionals and multiple agencies that are required for the best care of the young people.
- Work effectively with all professionals and multiple agencies that are required for the best care of the young people.
- Conduct supervision and welfare meetings as and when required as per company policy.
- Provide consistent leadership, ensuring staff feel respected, listened to, and supported.

**Requirements**:

- Experienced Support worker with a track record of high performance or 1 - 2 years working in a transferable role
- Diploma level 3 in residential childcare qualification or working towards
- Qualification complete or able to enrol onto a supervision a supervision skills and safer recruitment training
- Care Supervision level experience of 1 - 2 year
- Ability to work within 24/7 operations and support in on-call
- DBS on update service or able to pass an enhance DBS check
- Previous recent experience working in a residential care provision with children and young people with EBD, LD & Complex needs/Mental Health
- Experience of providing supervisions for staff
- Following a training and development plan for the home and self
- Experience in partaking in debriefs with staff who work in challenging behaviours
- Experience with Reg 44
- Learn and adhere to Ofsted 9 quality standards 4 children's home and or 4 quality standard for supported accommodation
- Previous Successful experience listening to, advocating for, and engaging with decision making processes for young people with their appropriate choices
- Full, UK Driving Licence (Essential)

**Shift Pattern**:
36 - 48 hours per week 7am - 7 pm

Pay: From £13.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- Residential support worker: 1 year (required)
- supervisory: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)
- NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care (preferred)

Work Location: In person