Team Leader

Voyage Care; Folkestone; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Enhanced evening & weekend pay

Premium overtime rates

Wagestream

Blue Light Card

Doctor line

Cash plans

Retirement leave

Long service awards

Job summary

Voyage Care is seeking a proactive Team Leader for our Folkestone service. You will help the manager oversee daily operations, supervise staff, allocate shifts, and ensure high-quality care for people we support. The role emphasizes independence for clients, robust training, and strong team collaboration.

You will lead with empathy, develop care plans, and support medication ordering while safeguarding wellbeing and progress toward goals in a busy supported-living environment.

Qualifications

• Previous Team Leader experience in a similar role.
• Level 3 Health & Social Care qualification or equivalent.
• Experience working with individuals with autism, brain injury or complex needs.

Responsibilities

• Supervise and support the service on a day‑to‑day basis.
• Allocate shifts, monitor training, induct new colleagues and conduct supervision and appraisals.
• Develop and update care plans and order medications as required.
• Support people to manage finances and act in the manager's absence.

Skills

Team leadership

Supervision

Communication

Education

Level 3 Health & Social Care

Job description

Team Leader - Folkestone - £14.90ph

Typical Shifts are: Weekday, Weekends and Sleep ins, Rotas can vary

Join Voyage Care and Feel Valued, we reward your dedication with:

• Enhanced evening and weekend pay at an additional 50p per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
• Premium overtime rates at an additional £1 per hour (Ts & Cs apply)
• Wagestream – giving you the flexibility to draw upon up to 40% of your pay, as it is earned.
• Funded Blue Light Card – hundreds of discounts at high street retailers etc.
• 24/7/365 doctor line for our colleagues and their families
• Access to cash plans for our colleagues, which also covers their families
• Enhanced retirement leave
• Long service awards

Team Leaders with a passion for enhancing the quality of life of the people we support are at the heart of our management teams. We’re currently searching for a fantastic Team Leader to join us in leading our supported living service in Hythe. This service is a welcoming and friendly environment with a dynamic team that supports a fantastic group of people!

As a Team Leader with us you’ll be helping people to gain more independence in their daily lives, whilst assisting the Manager with the day-to-day supervision and management of the service. You could be allocating shifts, booking in training, inducting new colleagues, conducting supervision’s and appraisals, developing and updating care plans, ordering medication, ensuring the people we support are supported to manage their finances and day-to-day management of the service in the absence of the manager. You’ll never lose sight of why you choose to do this, as our Team Leaders are still at the heart of providing day-to-day support.

This is an amazing role for someone who is looking to really make a difference to the lives of others, whether that’s helping our colleagues grow in confidence or the people we support gain independence so that they meet their goals.

We’re interested in our Team Leader having both the right experience and the right values. This is why at this service our Team Leader should have previous experience in a similar role and a Level 3 in Health & Social Care as well as experience working with individuals with autism, acquired brain injury, complex individuals with mental health needs, traumatic backgrounds and challenging behaviours.

Why choose us?

We embrace people’s differences and encourage you to Be You, and so long as you’ve got the passion to make someone’s life better, we can give you all the skills and development opportunities you need to build a great career.

We encourage our staff to Grow Together through our excellent training programme, starting at induction and following you through your career, with opportunity for promotion and progression as well as job security in a sector leading organisation.

All applicants and subsequent job offers will be subject to satisfactory DBS checks and references.