Team Leader - Adult Residential (ID:493)

Swanton Care and Community; Hull and East Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care services company in Hull is seeking a proactive Team Leader. You will lead a team supporting individuals with learning disabilities, ensuring high-quality, person-centred care. This role involves team development, recruitment, and managing care plans. Ideal candidates will have prior care experience and hold or be working towards an NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in care supporting individuals with learning disabilities.
• Experience leading a team or shift.
• Ability to lead and develop support staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical assistance and emotional support to team members.
• Help support workers understand their responsibilities.
• Create and update person-centred support plans.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Team Management

Empathy

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care

Job description

Overview

About you

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

This is an opportunity for a pro-active Team Leader to join an evolving Care Company. You will need:

• Previous experience of working within a care role, supporting people with learning disabilities / behaviours that challenge
• Be able to demonstrate your ability to lead a team/shift
• Ideally, you will be working towards or hold a NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care
• 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’

The Role

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 lead support and care is delivered at all times.
• 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.