Team Leader Day Opportunities

Coventry City Council; Coventry; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Coventry City Council is seeking a Team Leader for the Younity – Hub at Wilfred Spencer to manage a day opportunities service for adults with learning disabilities. You will lead and supervise staff, plan activities, and ensure delivery of outcome-focused support.

You will supervise staff attendance, complete risk assessments, liaise with carers and health professionals, and foster a caring, inclusive environment that promotes dignity and independence.

Qualifications

• NVQ level 2 or Diploma 2 in health and social care is required.
• Active progress towards Diploma level 3 within agreed timescales.
• Experience with adults with learning disabilities is required.
• Lead, mentor and develop staff in group or individual settings.
• Meet practical care needs including manual handling and mobility assistance.

Responsibilities

• Provide line management and regular supervision to the team.
• Manage staff absence within attendance procedures and schedules.
• Design weekly activity planners and update outcome-focused plans.
• Complete risk assessments, positive handling plans, audits, and safety checks.
• Lead team meetings and liaise with families, carers and health professionals.

Skills

Team leadership

Staff supervision

Mentoring staff

Communication skills

Manual handling

Care planning

Education

NVQ level 2 in health and social care

Diploma 2 in health and social care

Diploma level 3 in health and social care

Job description

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values

In line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.

Our Values are:

• Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
• Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
• Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
• Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
• Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
• Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.

We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.

We have a simple vision and strategy that defines what we are trying to achieve, our purpose and our approach which underpin the principles of Adult Social Care, and we continue to work in support of this.

In a simple sense all our work, at whatever level should continue to support the strategy of: ‘Providing support, in the least intrusive manner possible, based on the assets, resources and abilities that are available to people’.

What is the job role? The Younity – Hub at Wilfred Spencer offer a day opportunity for adults with learning disabilities to be involved in activities either centre based our in the local community. Experience of supporting people with a learning disability is required.

We work to maximise the opportunities, choices, and independence for all service users we support with a non-judgemental approach. Our goal is to provide a high standard of care for everyone who accesses the service promoting dignity, respect, and independence always.

You will be a team leader providing line management support to your team. You will hold regular supervision sessions, support and manage staff absence within the Coventry City Councils enabling attendance procedure. Our approach is all about the people we support, you will design activities planners for the week, oversee the updating and implementation of outcome focused support plans, complete risk assessments and positive handling plans, undertake audits and health safety building checks. You will undertake team meetings and have the skills to liaise with other health care professionals including families' carers and parents. You will need to be motivated and skilled and have a caring nature. Within this role you will be working together with other staff to develop run and deliver plans for meaningful activities, inclusive for all in the local community.

We are currently recruiting for x 1 post

This Post is 37 hrs per week

Core hours 8:00 – 16:00

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

All candidates must have the Right to Work in the UK. We are currently not offering sponsorship for this role.

Who are we looking for?

To be successful in this role we are looking for someone:

• To manage the day-to-day changes, achieve meaningful and memorable daysfor our service users this will include planning and reallocation of activities to support staff.
• Ensuring all support needs are met throughout the day.
• A commitment to quality and being the best, we can.
• Creating opportunity and choice with dignity and respect.
• Providing a safe environment where service users' rights and wishes are upheld and listened to.
• Promoting the physical, emotional, social, and intellectual well-being of the people we support empowering them to fulfil a meaningful life.

You’ll need

• A minimum formal qualification of NVQ level 2 or Diploma 2 in health social care level is required to apply for this post and be committed to working towards Diploma level 3 in health and social care or equivalent committed to achieving this within the agreed timescales from appointment to the post.
• Experience with working with adults with learning disabilities.
• To work with the support coordinator to ensure all service user's outcomes have been met.
• To work with the support coordinator to develop the service area.
• A willingness to develop lead and mentor staff in small groups or alonewith service users.
• Be physically able to carry out assessed manual handling, including hoisting, and pushing wheelchairs if necessary.
• To meet the practical and personal care and support needs of individuals we support. This can range from dietary /nutritional to medication needs.

Interview date(s): 18th 20th November 2026. You will need to attend a face to face interview followed by a 30 minute exercise.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition

About Coventry

Coventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.

We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.

At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.

To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.

If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies

Coventry City Council

Attached documents

• RM-00111495-Team Leader (Day Opportunities)-Job Description.pdf
• Coventry City Council Application Process 2.pdf