TEAM LEADER – Childrens Residential Service – Coventry – Starting at £28,652
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38 Hours |
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30th April 2024 | |
QUALIFICATIOONS (IF REQUIRED) |
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£28,652 |
TEAM LEADER – Childrens Residential Services – Coventry
This Team Leader role offers a salary of £28,652, and a superb Benefits package including:
• Over 5 weeks Holiday!
• Free DBS!
• Blue Light Shopping Discount Scheme!
• The support of an amazing team and organisation!
• Genuine Career Development Opportunities!
• Health Benefits Plan! Contributory Pension Scheme!
• Ongoing Training Opportunities!
• Annual awards and recognition, plus much, much more!
As the Team Leader, you will be working for a Unique Organisation, Progress. We have been established for 21 years and are known throughout the industry for giving the most outstanding service and care, to the children and young people we support. We will go above and beyond to support you through your career just as you will do so for the Children within your care/service. You will be a valued and respected member of our team – want to be part of this? – Then read on!
The Role
As a Team Leader at our 6 bedded Children’s residential service in the heart of a residential community, you will be caring for children and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities, and may also have diagnosis of EBD, Autism, ADHD, sensory impairment, and associated behavioural challenges and/or complex care needs
Children accommodated may also be experiencing mental health, self-harming and are socially and emotionally delayed, through neglect and harm.
As team leader will also assist the management team in maintaining a safe and enabling environment that provides positive experiences to children and young people.
Your role is also vital to the progression of a children and young people. A team leader encourages them to develop new skills and to be the best that they can be. You must be sensitive to the needs of those in your care.
The role will require you to work unsociable hours, including early mornings, evenings, weekends and bank holidays on a rolling rota basis.
You will also have competent IT skills and access to your own transport.
Qualifications (If Required)
- Level 3 NVQ/Diploma in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People).
Qualifications
Qualifications
You must be able to demonstrate that you have:
NVQ Level 3 Diploma or QCF Level 3 in Children and Young Peoples Workforce or in Residential Childcare or equivalent, and ideally working towards your Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care but this is not essential
Experience
Experience
You will have at least 2 years’ experience within a residential setting and a Team Leader or supervisory role.
Ideally you will also have experience of working with children and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities, Autism, ADHD, sensory impairment, and associated behavioural challenges and/or complex care needs
Skills/Abilities
Skills/Abilities
You have a fantastic opportunity to be a part of our team if you possess the following:
Strong communication skills
The ability to communicate on various levels
Working knowledge of, following, and working to Care Plans
Experience of Conflict Management and dealing with difficult situations
The ability to work effectively during high pressured situations
You will be a supportive team player
Qualities
You will also need to be
• Caring and approachable
• Patient and welcoming
• Creative, Helpful and Reliable
• Willing to learn valuable life skills
Other Requirements
Company Values
- Personal development opportunities
- Treating you as an individual
- Publicly recognising your achievements
- Supporting you any way we can
- Placing you on a comprehensive training program
- A competitive salary
Benefits
Job Package:
• Genuine career development opportunities
• Continued learning
• Enhanced holiday entitlements
• Shopping discounts via the HAPI app
• A stakeholder pension scheme
• Long service loyalty scheme
• Private family healthcare and medical insurance
• Death in service life assurance
• Additional hours available to work plus sleep in payments
• Full and Part time hours available
• Refer A Friend Scheme
• Full PPE provided
• Fully structured support for new starters
Who is Progress?
We are an established provider of specialist services for children and young adults from 0-25, who have disabilities and specialist needs, including profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, physical disability, sensory impairment, complex health care needs, acquired brain injury, and Autism. This encompasses a fostering agency, residential homes, supported living, a range of short break solutions, home and community support, preparation for independence and much more. As a values-led, family-owned business, we are not prepared to compromise on the quality and safety of our services, which are delivered following our owner’s ethos; ‘if it is not good enough for your own family, it is not good enough for our customers’..
We pride ourselves on enabling a more ordinary life to be experienced through extra-ordinary service delivery, with the people we support being the heart of everything we do. Everyone deserves a childhood and to move on into independence – this takes innovation every day as one size does not fit all where people are concerned!
Why work for Progress?
We asked some of our staff this question and the words they used in response included… friendly, further your career, support, extensive training, like a family, accepted, good team relationships, accommodating, flexibility, work ethic with colleagues, caring, shared passion, values aligned to your own, passion, not just a job; a career, gained skills, personal progression, support for staff; not just the people we care for, be part of a journey and the growth of the organisation, family feel, personal growth, opportunities, acknowledgement and recognition of efforts, not just a number, make a difference, feel appreciated, properly appraised annually with resulting outcomes, thorough induction, personal approach, no hierarchy, delivering on promises, high staff retention, respected as equals.
Even our temp had a positive opinion, “a great supportive team, allowing you to work flexibly with great opportunities to develop and apply your skills to assist across the business”.
We are passionate about developing our staff and their individual careers. We take pride in developing our future managers, with the capability, vision, and ability to meet the changing needs of the sector in a creative and responsive manner. We secured the Gold Investors in People Award, with 84% of staff agreeing we are ‘developing great leaders.’
We are proud of our teams; they really go the extra mile. We are also proud of our consistently high staff retention; we could not deliver the excellence we strive for, without every individual. We care deeply about delivering on our promises and feel extremely privileged to employ so many amazing people who share our vision and our determination! What more could we want!
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