Team Leader required for 35 hours per week in Rochdale - Driver Essential

Alternative Futures Group; Milnrow; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A health and social care charity is seeking a leader to direct a team in delivering person-centered services. You will manage resources effectively and ensure high-quality support for individuals with mental health needs. The ideal candidate has significant experience in person-centered planning and team leadership. The role offers comprehensive support and benefits including a flexible working week and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

35-hour working week with flexible options

33 days annual leave

Matched pension contributions

Health Cash Plans

24/7 virtual GP consultations

Professional development support

Qualifications

• Significant experience of person-centred planning.
• Experience supporting people with learning disabilities.
• Experience leading and managing staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team in delivering person-centred services.
• Manage resources for service outcomes.
• Develop staff skills through training.

Skills

Inspire person-centered principles

Assessment and planning

Engagement with service users

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge of mental health needs

Team leadership

Resource management

Use of ICT for reporting

Time management

Education

NVQ3 qualification in management or care

Tools

IT systems in service management

Job description

To lead and direct a team in developing and delivering person-centred service.

Manage resources to successfully deliver service user and contract outcomes.

To develop staff skills and knowledge in delivering high quality services that are designed and delivered to meet the needs of individuals.

To apply the tools of person-centred planning, review, and team development.

Embed a quality assurance framework at a service level.

To ensure that staff develop positive relationships with service users, and they actively support individual outcomes.

Work with the team to deliver what is important to the people they support and what they want for the future.

To keep the people supported and those important to them central in the planning and review of their service.

Demonstrate the principles of person-centred practices.

Act as a positive role model and coach to the team.

Principal Accountabilities

• To follow the principles of person-centred approaches in all areas of operation.
• To be responsible for assessment, planning, monitoring, and reviewing of individual support.
• To ensure appropriate information is captured, reported, and analysed.
• To lead and manage staff to ensure that the highest levels of performance and standards are achieved and maintained at all times.
• To ensure that staff skills, gifts, qualities and strengths are put to best use.
• To manage the recruitment of staff
• To co-ordinate and deploy staff resources efficiently and effectively.
• To develop and maintain a customer focused ethos at all times and to ensure excellent working relationships with other professionals.
• To ensure all staff receive appropriate levels of support through on-the-job coaching, regular supervisions and appraisals.
• To ensure staff training and development needs are identified and met.
• To organise and facilitate positive and productive team meetings.
• To promote and nurture good practice.
• To ensure practice in line with company policy, procedure and legislation.
• To ensure the service delivery meets the required quality standards.
• To promote community connections.
• To ensure that all internal and external reportable events are appropriately managed and resolved.
• To evidence quality service delivery.
• To assist the Area Manager in effect resource management.

Abilities

• Ability to inspire and drive person-centred principles and practices.
• Ability to assess, plan and monitor care and support to achieve individual outcomes.
• Ability to engage with service users and their families and carers, to develop positive and trusting relationships.
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to demonstrate a significant knowledge and understanding of the needs of people with mental health or learning disabilities and be familiar with the current views and best practice.
• Ability to lead and manage a team.
• Ability to use person centred tools to develop individuals and teams.
• Ability to apply policy and procedure in a way that results in quality outcomes for people.
• Ability to demonstrate initiative, self‑motivation, and resourcefulness.
• Effective resource management.
• Ability to use ICT for information, performance reporting and communication.
• Excellent time manager who has the ability to plan and prioritise a complex workload.

Values and Attitudes

• Committed to person centred service development and delivery.
• Passionate.
• Outcome focused.
• Nurturing.
• Solution focused.
• Committed to learning and improvement.

Experience

• Significant experience of person-centred planning and review.
• Significant experience of supporting people with learning disabilities and mental health needs.
• Experience of leading and managing a staff team.
• Experience of undertaking staff supervisions and appraisal.
• Experience of partnership working.
• Experience of managing resources within agreed budget.
• Experience of using IT systems in the management of service and people.

Qualifications & Training

• NVQ3 qualification in management or care (or equivalent) or a willingness and ability to complete such a qualification within a set time period.
• Training in person-centred practices (planning, review, team development).

Other

• Willingness to work flexible hours according to the needs of the business and ability to work on call.
• Willingness to work 7 days a week including unsocial hours and weekends.
• Driver with the use of a vehicle for work purposes for travel within our geographical areas of operation.

We're Alternative Futures Group, a health and social care charity providing specialist support for people with a learning disability or mental health condition. We're proud to have been positively changing lives and enabling people to achieve amazing outcomes for over 30 years. We have a vision to create a world where amazing people do amazing things every day. Our skilled and experienced teams work with every person we support to create a personalised, outcome‑focused plan to achieve their aspirations. As a values‑based employer, the people that genuinely care about the people they support, and we are seeking likeminded people to join our team. If you are passionate about working in Health and Social Care and have a real desire to make a positive difference to the lives of the people we support then we would love to hear from you. In return for your contribution we will support you throughout your career and we provide a wide range of employee benefits, career development and lifestyle support services to ensure that you too feel supported, fulfilled and valued from day one of your employment with us.

Benefits

• 35 hour working week with the option to work a 9 day fortnight or 4.5 day working week
• 33 days annual leave per year, plus the option to buy or sell annual leave
• Our Team Leaders are supernumerary with no requirement to work on shift
• Matched pension contributions up to 6%
• Health Cash Plans
• Expression of wish, our death in service benefit
• 24/7 virtual GP consultations for you and your family
• 24/7 mental health consultations
• Amazing People Rewards – fantastic employee discounts
• Blue Light Card eligibility
• Comprehensive induction programme with ongoing support and professional development
• Support and funding to complete a Level 3 qualification if you haven't already
• Empower Development Programme for leaders within AFG>