Senior Team Leader - Complex Care & Behaviour Support

Linkit Recruitment; East Lindsey; Sur place; GBP 30 000 - 40 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Linkit Recruitment is seeking an experienced Team Leader/Deputy Manager to provide operational leadership in high-acuity care settings within the Midlands. You will oversee staff teams on 3:1, 4:1 and 5:1 shifts, ensure safe care plan implementation, and promote PBS-based strategies with strict DoLS adherence.

You will manage risk, lead incident responses, and support supervision, training and performance management to maintain high standards of safeguarding and dignity for individuals with

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in complex care settings.
• Experience leading 3:1, 4:1 or 5:1 packages.
• Proven ability to manage behaviours that challenge and use de-escalation.
• Knowledge of DoLS and safeguarding practices.

Responsabilités

• Lead the staff team during shifts and ensure appropriate allocation and deployment within enhanced staffing arrangements.
• Maintain oversight of risk and ensure staffing arrangements remain appropriate to the individual's presentation.
• Ensure staff understand triggers, early warning signs, preventative strategies and escalation protocols.
• Lead staff responses during significant behavioural incidents.
• Ensure de‑escalation is the primary response and that restrictive interventions are only used as a last resort where lawful, necessary, proportionate and authorised.
• Ensure only appropriately trained and competent staff participate in physical interventions.
• Coordinate responses to aggression, violence, absconding, self‑injury, environmental destruction and other high‑risk behaviour.
• Ensure appropriate emergency escalation where risks cannot safely be managed by the care team.
• Conduct shift briefings and handovers.
• Review daily records, behavioural observations, incident reports and other documentation for accuracy and completeness.
• Ensure incidents and restrictive interventions are escalated appropriately.
• Participate in post‑incident reviews and identify learning or changes required.
• Monitor staff practice and immediately address unsafe or inconsistent care.
• Support staff supervision, competency assessments and performance management.
• Identify training and development requirements.
• Support implementation and review of PBS strategies and behavioural risk assessments.
• Liaise with the Deputy Manager, Service Manager, clinical team and external professionals.
• Promote safeguarding, dignity, independence, human rights and least restrictive practice.
• Ensure staff understand and comply with DoLS conditions and other legal restrictions applying to individuals.

Connaissances

Staff leadership

Crisis de-escalation

Behaviour management

Risk assessment

DoLS knowledge

Description du poste

Linkit Recruitment is seeking an experienced Team Leader/Deputy Manager to provide operational leadership in high-acuity care settings within the Midlands. You will oversee staff teams on 3:1, 4:1 and 5:1 shifts, ensure safe care plan implementation, and promote PBS-based strategies with strict DoLS adherence.

You will manage risk, lead incident responses, and support supervision, training and performance management to maintain high standards of safeguarding and dignity for individuals with