Day Opportunities Team Leader

TN United Kingdom; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

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24.04.2025

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08.06.2025

Job Description:

Job Reference: HCC620615
Salary Range: £32,149 to £35,241 per annum
Work Location: Audleys Day Centre, Basingstoke
Hours per week: 37 (part-time hours will be considered)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 28 April 2025

The Role:

As a Day Opportunities Team Leader, you'll be managing others and coordinating the delivery of activities for young adults with learning and physical disabilities, each with their own unique needs, abilities, and interests. In this key role, you'll find the perfect balance between leading, guiding and supporting our amazing team and staying actively engaged with our service users. Helping people engage in fun, personalised activities that build social networks, you’ll promote choice and inclusion whilst ensuring they are safe and well.

What you’ll do:

• Line management: Provide leadership support to team members, conduct regular 1:1s and manage performance.
• Team development: Motivate and coach the team. Identify training needs and support staff in their development, helping maximise their abilities.
• Manage activities: Support the planning and coordination of day-to-day operations, responding flexibly to meet changing priorities. Act as lead decision maker when required.
• Engage in fulfilling personalised activities: Support service users to take part in fun activities, tailored to their individual physical, mental, social and emotional needs, such as sensory experiences, cooking, arts and crafts, gardening and sharing their hobbies.
• Help with daily living activities: Support service users with eating, drinking, mobility, personal care, and medication, ensuring everyone is treated with dignity and respect.

What we’re looking for:

• Knowledge: Level 3 NVQ/QCF Health and Social Care Diploma, or an equivalent qualification, along with an understanding of Day Opportunities settings.
• Expertise: Proven track record of working with individuals with learning or physical disabilities and complex needs.
• Leadership: Capable of leading and inspiring a team, demonstrating resilience and positivity. Understands what makes a team successful and how to achieve it.
• Relationship building: Builds and maintains positive, professional relationships with service users, families, carers, professionals, managers and colleagues.
• Core values: Commitment to role-modelling high standards of person-centred support, demonstrating patience, empathy and compassion.

Take a look at our Candidate Pack for more information about the role, team and our values. The section ‘About you’ explains what specific knowledge, skills and experience we want you to tell us about. Make sure you explain how you meet these requirements and demonstrate our values, in your application.

• Comprehensive induction program with all the training you need to fulfil your role.
• Satisfaction from helping people engage in meaningful activities and have a positive impact on people’s quality of life.
• Commitment to your ongoing personal development.
• Access to Health Assured's comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme to support your physical and mental wellbeing, including 24/7 telephone support, a suite of online resources, and legal and financial advice.
• Competitive benefits package, including generous annual leave entitlement, occupational sick pay, and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

For this role there is no requirement to work evenings, weekends, or bank holidays.
Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the right to work in the UK before applying.

Applicants can expect to hear from us within two weeks of the advertised closing date.

Values Based Recruitment

We recruit for attitudes and values in Adults’ Health and Care. We invite you to evidence how you demonstrate our 5 core values in your application. For more information on our values, please refer to the candidate pack.

Vetting Requirements:

This post is subject to a Criminal Records Check.

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Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.

We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.