Assistant Team Leader NEW Bury Council Posted today Bury £34.314-£37,035 Expires on 11/04/2025

Bury Council; Bury; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Bury Council is seeking a highly motivated Assistant Team Leader to manage a team supporting individuals with disabilities in securing employment and developing their life skills. This role entails leading collaborative efforts to foster commercial opportunities and ensuring the team's effectiveness in promoting independence and employment access for all clients. Ideal candidates will possess team management experience and an understanding of the barriers faced by disadvantaged individuals.

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team including performance monitoring.
• Knowledge of barriers faced by disabled individuals.
• Confident and assertive with excellent presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and management to a team supporting customers.
• Develop commercial opportunities for the service.
• Ensure financial viability of the service.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Interpersonal Skills

Networking

Performance Monitoring

Tools

IT Systems

Job description

Team : Bury Employment Support and Training (Bury EST)

Bury Employment Support and Training (Bury EST) support young people and adults with disabilities to secure paid employment and/or develop their life skills.

We are looking to appoint a highly motivated individual into the Assistant Team Leader post. This is a fantastic opportunity to work collaboratively with the Team Leader in providing leadership and management to a team of staff who support customers in obtaining and maintaining paid employment and/or develop their independence. As a self-financing service, this is a great opportunity to work alongside the Team Leader to develop commercial opportunities for the service and implement income ideas, to ensure its financial viability.

Ideally the candidate will have demonstrable experience of managing a team including performance monitoring, and experience of working with partners/stakeholders and in networking/promotion. In addition, the candidate will ideally have knowledge and experience of the barriers faced by disabled and disadvantage people in accessing employment opportunities.

On a personal level, our ideal candidate will have a working knowledge of IT systems, be a confident and assertive individual with excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills.

About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare or children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.

As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way

Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.

Next steps

For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Helen Whittle on 0161 253 6588

157 Manchester Road , Bury, BL9 0TD, United Kingdom