Team Leader - Adult Supported Living (ID:255)

Swanton Care and Community; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A care company in Ipswich is seeking a proactive Team Leader with experience in care and team leadership. You will provide support and guidance to Support Workers, ensuring quality care and person-centred plans for individuals. Key qualifications include NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care and a valid driving licence. This role focuses on empowering service users and effectively leading a team to deliver high-quality support.

Qualifications

• Previous experience working in care and leading a team.
• Valid driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical assistance and emotional support.
• Support development and skills of Support Workers.
• Manage transitions into and away from the service.
• Ensure person centred support/care plans are created and updated.

Skills

Team leadership

Emotional support

Effective communication

Empowerment

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care

Job description

WE DO NOT OFFER SPONSORSHIP

About you

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 Care 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. In addition:

• Hold or be working towards a NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care
• Have a valid driving licence

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

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 lead 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 Service Manager/Deputy 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.