Team Leader - Adult Residential

Swanton Care and Community; Much Wenlock; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Much Wenlock is seeking a Care Team Leader to supervise daily operations and support the development of a dedicated team. The role involves leading a shift, empowering staff, and ensuring high-quality care delivery in a person-centered manner. Previous experience in a care role and team leadership is essential. This position offers competitive benefits, including career development opportunities.

Benefits

Refer a friend scheme

Above and beyond awards

Long service awards

Employee benefits app

Cycle to work scheme

Pension scheme

Life cover

Funded qualifications

Career pathways

Training qualifications centre

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Previous experience in care and team leadership is essential.
• Ability to provide practical assistance and emotional support.
• Proactive approach to team development and support.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day management of a shift.
• Support the Manager in transition and service management.
• Ensure person-centered care and support plans are followed.

Skills

Leadership

Team Management

Communication

Empathy

Job description

About The Role

We are recruiting for a Care Team Leader at our residential service based in Much Wenlock to support the Manager by leading the day-to-day management of a shift and delivering support.

Location: Much Wenlock, Shropshire

Job type: Full time, 40 hours per week

We do not offer sponsorship

The Team Leader will provide practical assistance and emotional support to empower their team in supporting the people they support to achieve their goals and aspirations.

You will be proactive and support the development and skills of Support Workers. This will include recruitment, induction, supervisions, annual appraisals, training, coaching, rota management, sickness and absence management.

Take the lead to help Support Workers understand their responsibilities and by doing so ensure that safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led support and care is delivered at all times. You will complete evidence based supervisions and observation supervisions as well as supporting your team of support workers to complete competency based appraisals.

Support the Manager in managing transitions into and away from the service. You will be able to liaise professionally with all outside professional agencies, and ensure that all information is shared appropriately. Ensure that all the people we support have person centred support/care plans. You will be able to create and update these plans as per any changes that are required.

To oversee and support the development of excellent quality within the service. You will design, develop and maintain excellent service user records. Working in a supportive manner that empowers the service user to live their life in their chosen manner.

About You

You will work in a pro-active, responsive, effective and person centred way to ensure that the lives of the people you and the team are supporting are enriched, to be the best they are able.

The team provide practical assistance and emotional support to empower people we support to achieve their goals and aspirations, respecting everyone’s individuality and enabling them to make appropriate choices to live the life they want to live.

Do you have previous experience working in care, leading a team and want to further your development within a Team Leader role?

This is an opportunity for a pro-active Team Leader to join an evolving Care Company. You will need to have previous experience of working within a care role and experience of leading a team.

Here at Swanton, we are looking for people who share our core values and are able to apply these to the work that they do. At the heart of our ethos are five key words, these underpin the PRIDE we take in our services.

‘Potential, Responsibility, Integrity, Diversity, Empathy’

What we can offer:

Refer a friend scheme we know that you will know fantastic people who will be make a great contribution, you will receive £400 each time a successful referral is made *

Above and beyond we recognise that our staff teams do amazing things for the people we support and their teams. We award contributions for those who go the extra mile and for good inspection feedback with vouchers for high street shops and other surprises!

Long service awards we recognize your contribution to the team and celebrate long service

Employee benefits app stay connected to our community, receive discounts across everyday and luxury shops, access information about learning & development opportunities.

Cycle to work you can save money and get fit with our salary sacrifice scheme

Pension we will auto enrol you into our salary sacrifice pension scheme

Life cover you will be entitled to the death in service benefit.

Funded qualifications earn whilst you learn! we aim to develop our own talent, giving you the opportunity to develop your career with Swanton *

Career pathways we invest in our people and offer apprenticeships in Health and Social Care (Level 3). Earn whilst you learn has never been easier!

Swanton Educates we have our own training qualification centre which can further support your development

Trained mental health first aiders available to support you when you need someone to talk to

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) free confidential access to 24hr assistance program for counselling, advice and support

Employee Voice we hold regular events throughout the year to listen to your feedback about working with us

You will need to complete onboarding checks, which include an enhanced DBS.

• subject to eligibility & criteria

About The Service

We provide person centred support to people 24 hours a day within a community based residential home