Team Leader - Health Care

Embrace Living Residential Service; Leinster; On-site; EUR 36,342 - 39,188; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

New joiner bonus

Refer-a-Friend Program

Employment Assistance Programme

Bike-to-Work Scheme

Sponsored QQI courses

Continuous professional development

Job summary

Embrace Living Residential Service in Leinster is looking for a Team Leader to provide high-quality support services focused on the strengths of residents with disabilities. This role involves supporting your team, fostering a collaborative culture, and ensuring the delivery of a strengths-based approach to care.

The position offers a competitive salary between €36,342 and €39,188 annually, as well as a new joiner bonus and various professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• QQI/Fetac level 5 qualification in healthcare with at least 1 year's experience.
• OR hold a Nursing Degree registered with NMBI.
• Experience in staff supervision is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure services recognize each resident’s strengths.
• Support and guide the team to deliver strengths-based approaches.
• Assume managerial duties in the absence of the Person in Charge.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Supervision experience

Manual driving licence

Education

QQI Level 5 qualification in healthcare

Nursing Degree

Job description

Who we are

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. We provide residential support services for adults and children with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and acquired brain injuries.

The role of the Team 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.

What’s in it for you / We offer successful candidates:

• Competitive pay scale of €36,342- €39,000 depending on experience
• New joiner bonus of €250 for full time staff
• 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
• Continuous professional development and career guidance
• Roster to suit your work/life balance

Your profile:

• Hold a QQI/Fetac level 5 qualification in healthcare 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

Job Overview:

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

Pay: €36,342.00-€39,188.00 per year

Work authorisation: Ireland (required)

Work Location: In person