Team Leader

Creative Support; Blackpool; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Support is looking for an experienced Team Leader to join their dedicated team in Blackpool. This pivotal role involves overseeing learning disabilities supported housing schemes while managing staff and ensuring high-quality, person-centered support for service users. The position emphasizes leadership, community engagement, and operational excellence in a passionate, inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Probationary bonus

Pension contributions

33 days annual leave

Company paid enhanced DBS

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
• Leadership experience in health and social care settings is essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee daily operations and effective service delivery for supported housing schemes.
• Lead a dedicated team providing coaching and performance management.
• Implement quality monitoring and report on key performance indicators.

Skills

Team Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Coaching

Education

QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care

Job description

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We are looking for an experienced Team Leader to join our dedicated team and help develop and coordinate our learning disabilities supported housing schemes and domiciliary services across Blackpool.

As a Team Leader, you will be at the forefront of our leadership team, ensuring the effective delivery and daily operational management of our services. You will be responsible for leading a team of staff, providing supervision, coaching, performance management, and support to staff, volunteers, and students. You will ensure the provision of person-centred support that enables customers to maintain their independence, enhance their wellbeing, and enjoy opportunities for personal development.

Your role includes overseeing the deployment of staff to meet individual needs and preferences within available resources, identifying training needs (both mandatory and service-specific), and maintaining accurate records. You will respond to referrals, undertake initial assessments of need, and ensure all service users have co-produced support plans and designated Key Workers. Establishing clear goals and pathways towards greater independence for service users, you will organize regular person-centred reviews, putting each person’s views and journey at the heart of planning and decision-making.

Working closely with local multi-disciplinary teams and community-based agencies, you will provide holistic, wrap-around support. You will maintain high standards of environmental safety and quality, ensuring a welcoming and inclusive atmosphere. Facilitating service user engagement, involvement, and peer support, you will implement robust quality monitoring methods and provide key performance indicators, identifying and planning necessary actions.

You will provide exceptional customer care, proactively communicate with stakeholders about risk management and the welfare of the people we support. Your strong ethical duty of care and commitment to safeguarding vulnerable individuals will be at the core of your work.

If you’re interested in this opportunity and would like to discuss it further, please contact Neil Maguire, Area Manager via or by email: .uk.

Vacancy Reference Number: 79885

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number

Full training is provided, as is the opportunity to work towards QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care. Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 33 days Annual Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization – Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold awarded.

Applications are reviewed as they are received, we do not provide feedback for unsuccessful applications. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK – This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme, and we are unable to accept applicants with Skilled Worker Visas.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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