Team Leader - Children Services

Embrace; Navan; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

New joiner bonus: €250

Overtime premiums

Double time on Public Holidays

Sunday Premium

Paid breaks

Fortnightly pay

Roster to suit work/life balance

Refer-a-Friend €150

Employment Assistance Programme

Bike-to-Work Scheme

Sponsored QQI Level 7 and Level 8

Job summary

Embrace in Navan, Ireland, invites applications for a Social Care Leader to guide a team delivering strengths-based support and resident development. You will supervise staff, foster collaboration, and uphold Embrace’s Vision, Mission and Values.

Required: Level 7 in Social Care or Nursing degree with NMBI registration, plus a full driving licence. Benefits include a competitive salary, a €250 new joiner bonus, overtime and public holiday premiums.

Qualifications

• Hold a Level 7 qualification in Social Care or an equivalent accredited programme.
• Nursing Degree with NMBI registration is acceptable and desirable.
• Experience in supervising staff is highly desirable.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the supervision of staff to ensure delivery of services.
• Guide and support the team to deliver a strengths-based approach.
• Foster a supportive, collaborative culture among the team.
• Manage in the absence of the Person in Charge and support succession to Team Lead roles.

Skills

Strong communication

Interpersonal skills

Team leadership

Driving licence

Education

Level 7 qualification in Social Care

Nursing Degree (NMBI)

Job description

About Us

Embrace is an Irish, family-owned provider of support services for people with intellectual disabilities, autistic spectrum disorder and acquired brain injuries. Our service is based around our five core values of Energy, Kindness, Empowerment, Quality and Happiness. These values underpin our strengths-based and person-centred approach, which together form the ethos of our service.

The role of the Social Care Leader is essential to ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality strengths-based service that focuses on our residents' core interests and encourages their development of new skills.

• As a Team Leader, you are responsible for ensuring our services are built on recognizing each resident's strengths and abilities to support each individual to continue learning and growing socially.


• You are also responsible for providing your team with guidance and support and ensuring that they deliver on our promise of a strengths-based approach with our residents.


• Encouraging a supportive and collaborative culture among your team.


• Ensuring the ongoing focus on residents' strengths and uncovering new ways of developing these.


• Understanding and delivering on Embrace's core Vision, Mission, and Values.


• Assuming management responsibilities in the absence of the Person in Charge.


• Fostering the development of team members to become the next Embrace Team Leads while we support you on your professional journey.

What we offer the successful candidates

• Competitive basic salary (dependant on experience)


• New joiner bonus of €250 for full-time staff


• Overtime premiums per hour


• Double time on Public Holidays


• Sunday Premium


• Paid breaks


• Fortnightly pay


• Roster to suit your work/life balance


• Refer-a-Friend Program - €150 per referral


• Employment Assistance Programme, an independent support service for staff


• Bike-to-Work Scheme


• Sponsored QQI Level 7 and Level 8 courses

Requirements

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  • Hold a Level 7 qualification in Social Care with at least 1 year's experience in disability services OR
  
  
  • Hold a Nursing Degree (be registered in the relevant division of the live register of nurses, maintained by the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)
  
  
  • Experience in overseeing the supervision of staff would be highly desirable
  
  
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
  
  
  • Full manual driving licence