Team Leader

Beyond Limits; Honiton; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Award winning pension

Sick pay scheme

Generous annual leave

Critical illness cover

Life insurance

Induction program

Ongoing training

Career development

Make a difference

Job summary

Beyond Limits is seeking a confident Team Leader to support Clair in living her best life. You will work with an experienced team, plan rotas, supervise shifts, and handle admin tasks, including managing sickness and absence, to ensure high-quality care and coverage.

This role offers a supportive induction, ongoing personal and professional development, and opportunities to shadow colleagues and develop leadership skills while upholding the values of inclusion and compassionate care.

Qualifications

• Experience of working with Autism/Asperger's.
• Ability to lead and manage a team.
• Demonstrated resilience and patience.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise a care team to support Clair.
• Plan rotas and manage shift coverage.
• Admin duties including sickness & absence management.
• Provide supervision and coaching to staff.
• Support personal and professional development within the team.

Skills

Autism/Asperger's experience

Leadership potential

Resilience

Communication skills

Reliability

Compassionate

Job description

Clair loves a bargain from a charity shop and she enjoys socialising at her local club and entering competitions. She is very good at crosswords and other quizzes and is an expert on the 80's era.

Contract hours: Full time

Clair has Asperger's and can find the world a little confusing at times. She has spent long periods in institutional care and is still getting used to having her own home. She has an experienced support team around her but a vacancy has just opened up for a Team Leader.

Clair is looking for someone who has some life experience and a mature outlook on life. Ideally you will have some previous experience in a leadership capacity and are someone who is keen on learning and developing your skills. This is an established team with experienced team members, you will have the opportunity to do some shadow shifts and we offer a comprehensive induction with ongoing personal and professional development training.

As the Team Leader you will be responsible along with the rest of the team for supporting Clair to live her best life. She has a lot of potential and just needs positivity to achieve her dreams and aspirations. Your Team Leader duties will include working shifts, planning rotas and overall administration tasks, including managing sickness and absence and providing support and supervision for your team.

This position is ideal for someone who is looking to work with an organisation that works differently and someone who wants to develop. Beyond Limits has an outstanding reputation for the work it does and you will be offered every opportunity to succeed in this role.

Ideally you will:

• Have experience of working with Autism/Asperger's
• Have a get up and go attitude
• Be able to demonstrate resilience and patience
• Be reliable and flexible
• Have excellent communication skills
• Be kind and compassionate
• Be able to lead from the front
• Be committed to the values of inclusion

Benefits:

• We reward our staff with competitive salaries
• We offer an Award Winning Pension Scheme
• We have a company sick pay scheme
• Excellent annual leave allowance, including top up pay
• Critical Illness cover, reassurance when you need it the most
• Life Insurance, reassurance for your family when they need it the most
• A really good mandatory induction
• Ongoing high quality training
• Career development opportunities
• A real chance to make a difference to someone's life

'Sponsorship is currently not available'

We are committed to recruiting candidates who share our commitment to safeguarding, and therefore we apply robust recruitment and selection procedures to ensure that the people selected are right for the job, and that all candidates are appropriately screened prior to appointment, including obtaining references and DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) clearance. A DBS check will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position with Beyond Limits, the cost of which will be to the employee, however, this will be returned after successful completion of probation period (3 months)