Team Leader - Young Adults Disability (YAD) Team

Golearnleicestershire; England; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

A local governmental council in England is seeking a part-time Team Leader for its Adult Social Care Young Adults Disability Team. The role requires extensive knowledge of adult social care and aims to enhance the lives of young people aged 16-43. The successful candidate will manage a team of community support workers, ensuring high standards and effective service delivery. Ideal applicants will have a degree or equivalent experience in management, with a strong focus on team collaboration and performance management.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of working in an Adult Social Care setting.
• Must have significant experience in managing teams.
• Understand partnership pressures relevant to service area.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day operations of the team of support workers.
• Ensure high standards of service delivery.
• Provide technical support to team members.
• Report performance to Strategic Service Managers.

Skills

Adult social care experience

People and performance management

Experience in prioritizing service demands

Trust building within the team

Education

Degree level education or equivalent management experience

Job description

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, LE38RA Worker Category: Hybrid Worker Salary: £43,860 to £47,829 per annum (pro rata for part-time) Working Hours: 18.5 Hours Contract Type: Permanent Closing Date: Sunday 21st December 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part time post (18.5 hours per week) job share to work in the Adult Social Care Young Adults Disability (YAD) Team as a Team Leader. The successful applicant will work with our existing and established management structure within the YAD. The ideal candidate for this role will have extensive knowledge of working in an Adult Social Care setting especially to support young people aged 16-43 as part of their preparation for adulthood.

About the Role

The Team Leader will be operationally responsible for the day-to-day management of a team of community support workers and trainee Community support workers within the team. The Team Leader will maintain a high performing team ensuring high standards and an effective service.

The key duties

• To improve outcomes for people by ensuring that staff can provide good outcomes for people by implementing the department's operating model and ways of working to deliver social care
• To provide technical and professional support to team members
• To improve ways of working for staff by supporting and implementing improved working between team, children’s services and partner agencies with an MDT focus
• To manage staffing budgets and staff performance using departmental and corporate policies ensuring effective and efficient team capacity, capability and delivery
• To ensure the effective management of team performance and resources
• To provide performance and delivery reports to Strategic Service Managers and HOS

A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.

About You

To apply for this post, you must:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent management experience
• Have substantial adult social care experience and knowledge of The Care Act 2014
• Significant experience in people and performance management
• Have experience in successfully prioritising between competing service demands
• Understand partnership pressures and interdependencies relative to service area
• Partnership/MDT working with representative citizens and carers to identify service and support solutions
• Be able to develop trust within the team and encourage team members to build positive, trusting relationships with each other, across departments and with customers, service users, partners and/or the community as appropriate

We’d also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.

Interested in Flexible Working?

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term‑time working, part‑time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Andrea Birch‑YAD, Team Leader, via email here

Anne Goodwin‑Strategic Service Manager, via email here

How to Apply

Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ Plus communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.

To apply for this job, please click on ‘Apply Now’. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

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