Team Leader

Turning Point UK; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading health and social care provider as a Team Leader, where you'll make a significant impact on the lives of individuals with learning disabilities. In this rewarding role, you'll lead a dedicated team, develop personalized support plans, and foster positive relationships with service users and their families. With a focus on person-centered care, your leadership will ensure that each individual achieves their full potential in a supportive environment. Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package and a culture that values recognition and personal growth as you embark on a fulfilling career path.

Benefits

29 days paid holiday

Additional holiday purchase option

Comprehensive training and development package

Qualifications

• Experience in leading teams and managing support staff.
• Ability to create and review support plans with individuals.

Responsibilities

• Develop flexible support plans and risk assessments for individuals.
• Manage a team of Support Workers and oversee their performance.

Skills

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

Care Sector Experience

Support Planning

Education

Experience in Care Sector

Job description

At Turning Point, we support people with learning disabilities across England. As a Team Leader, you'll make a real difference to the lives of the people we support as you provide high quality services that support each of our service users to achieve their full potential. Passionate about people, you'll enjoy the scope and support to enhance your own life too, as you make the role your own and lead by example

Our services are 24 hour, supported living services, where we support 3 individuals, with learning disabilities and complex needs to live independently within their own home. People that we support here have a mixture of communication, mobility and health needs and these would be described as quieter environments where we tailor our services to enable people to be as independent as possible.

We endeavour to create positive family relationships offering a good circle of support. There is a strong focus on supporting individuals’ lives in a person centred way which includes various activities, shopping, managing own budgets and cooking. Raising the bar for person-centred care, you'll provide support, which means not only putting their well-being first, but building and maintaining relationships with their families and friends.

Role Responsibility

You and your team will develop flexible and realistic support plans and risk assessments with the individuals you support and in collaboration with family members and other professionals, ensuring that the support plans reflect each person's needs, goals and aspirations. Part of the role will include reviewing support plans and risk assessments, liaising with health professionals, chairing a variety of meetings, completing Mental Capacity Assessments, holding Best Interest meetings and completing DoLS applications.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for Team Leaders who can quickly adapt within busy and changeable environments. Not only will you need the ability to lead a team of Support Workers on a shift, allocate work and delegate tasks, you will be expected to directly line manage a team of support staff. This will include managing and overseeing the rota, sickness, supervisions and appraisals, managing performance issues, coaching and mentoring. We expect our Team Leaders to bring the strong communication skills needed to tailor their message to a variety of audiences.

You should be a team player with some experience gained in the care sector - preferably a working knowledge of supporting individuals who have a learning disabilities, Physical disabilities and health issues.

We will offer a varied and interesting training and development package to develop you as a line manager and support you in the role.

About us

As a leading health and social care provider with more than 300 locations across England, we take real pride in the services we offer.

We run all of our services on a not-for-profit basis; instead, we invest every penny back into our services and people. We never stop believing in change for the better, and we work constantly to improve the lives of the people we support.

What Benefits Will I Receive?

We know reward looks different to each person and so whether its ways to make your money go further, a culture supporting recognition and celebration, or opportunities to boost your career – we want to support you in every way we can with our total reward package.

You will get 29 days’ paid holiday a year, increasing with each year of service up to 31 days. Plus the option to buy additional holidays and spread the cost.

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