Team Leader

7 months ago


Brampton, United Kingdom Polaris Community Full time

Location: Headsnook, Brampton (As well as other locations in Carlisle)

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Entry level Salary: £27,583.92 with a potential to earn up to £30,841.20 in sleep in shifts.

Experienced Salary: £28,129.92 with the potential to earn up to £31,387.20 in sleep in shifts

Specific Hours: 42 hours per week- shift pattern on rotation

We are currently seeking an experienced Residential Team Leader to join our services based in Carlisle.

North Lakes Children's Services is a well-established local provider of therapeutic residential care and education for boys aged 6-18. We improve the resilience, self-esteem and abilities of all the young people we work with.

The role of a Team Leader is to share in creating a purposeful, caring, therapeutic, learning environment for our young people, by the application of high professional standards of care and support for the young person's social, emotional and/or behavioural needs, and mental health and learning difficulties.

Your Attributes:

As a Therapeutic Residential Team Leader, your qualities of being decisive, highly attuned and consistent will positively benefit the vulnerable children we care for. We welcome applications from experienced individuals who seek to deepen their therapeutic care knowledge and help develop the practice of others in utilising the PACE model and Therapeutic Parenting approaches.

Can you inspire your team? Will you use curiosity and empathy to help validate a child's life story? Have you an approachable leadership style?

Your ability to make key therapeutic interventions throughout the day will guide your team in adopting best practice. Recognising trauma and how it can manifest within a child and using your knowledge of child development will help the recovery, progression and ability for a child to live a full life and gain an independent, healthy future.

Are you…

  • Ready to supervise and support the continued professional development of a small team of staff?
  • Willing and competent to lead a shift, making well-judged decisions in line with care plans?
  • Knowledgeable in therapeutic interventions and an experienced key worker?
  • Able to deputise for the Registered Manager in holiday periods?

Main duties:

  • To provide support/advice for staff as required and manage the daily running of the team.
  • To support and deputise for deputy manager as and when required.
  • To carry out supervisions of individuals and support for key workers.
  • To manage monies for activities.
  • To manage the daily needs of the children.
  • To monitor and check staff they carry out their duties.
  • To help plan and prepare young people when moving on from the home, for their future including balancing risk with opportunity.Click apply now to view the full list of duties on our careers portal.

All Applicants must have:

  • Have an understanding of the issues that face young people in care
  • Hold Residential Childcare/Families Practitioner Diploma/Children and Young People's Workforce/NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent
  • Excellent communication and listening skills
  • Be willing to learn
  • Be able to work well as part of a small team
  • Be willing to undertake a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position. Your DBS check shall be paid for by ourselves
  • Experience with Emotional Behavioural Disorder, Social/Residential Work or Youth Work would be advantageous.
  • Have a full, clean UK driving licence and be able to cover at other Residential Homes as and when needed.

Benefits:

  • A sleep-in allowance of £62.64 per night- potential extra earning of up to £3257.28
  • Shift Rotation: 2 days on, 2 days off, with staggered start times ranging from 8am, 12noon or 2pm (i.e. 8am-10pm, 12pm-10pm or 2pm-10pm).
  • 6 weeks annual leave entitlement.
  • Company pension
  • Progression in professional development opportunity, through an HABC level 5 diploma in leadership and management residential care.
  • Access to our Employee Discount Scheme, including discounts at various well-known retail companies
  • Access to wellbeing supports via our Employee Assistance Programme
  • Monthly clinical and professional supervisions, access to therapeutic support
  • Overtime and additional holiday pay at Christmas day and New Year's Day.
  • Career progression opportunities
  • Comprehensive annual training including: Child Development, Attachment Theory, PACE Model, Therapeutic Parenting, The Whole Brain Child Model.

"Staff follow a research-based therapeutic approach to parenting. Staff use their sensitivity and empathy to successfully help children validate their feelings, feel accepted and well cared for." - Ofsted Outstanding 2018

North Lakes is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position.

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