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 Derbyshire YP Service. You will lead the delivery of services that empower Children, Young People, and their Families across Derbyshire to overcome issues around substance misuse. You will guide, support and manage the front line provision of substance misuse services in the county - ensuring effective and engaging delivery to young people, professionals and family members as its required.

**Where**:Thomas Henry House, Ripley

**Hours**: 37.5 hrs per week

**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 support and guide the team to assess children, young people, and their families, prepare individual and group plans and motivate them to actively engage with support
- Take a lead in all Safeguarding issues and processes in the service, taking on the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) with support from the cluster Manager
- To develop internal strategies and processes the team will use to meet the support needs of those using the service
- To identify and collaborate effectively with partner agencies and bring a proactive approach to partnership working to work towards positive outcomes for the service
- To take a lead on performance management
- To manage projects from beginning to completion demonstrating effective decision-making skills, delegation, risk management and evaluation

**About you**:

- Excellent knowledge and experience of working with children and young people experiencing difficulties around Substance misuse and other wider issues
- Line management experience including the delivery of reflective supervision
- Excellent knowledge of safeguarding policies and practices relating to children and young people and experience of embedding these operationally
- Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users
- Experience of leading, empowering and motivating a team

**What we will give to you**:

- 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service
- Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme
- Contributory pension scheme
- A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc.
- A friendly and supportive team
- Training, career development & progression opportunities

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If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with
**Change Grow Live,** then we’d love to talk to you.

We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.

If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible. The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority.