Team Leader – Childrens Residential Care – Starting from £32,120
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31st January 2025 | |
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starting from £32,120 |
Are you ready for a new challenge? You may have Team Leader or Shift Leader experience or you may be an experienced Residential Support worker ready to dip their toes into management? We will offer full support to your development in this role.
The Role
As a Team Leader at our 4 bed Children’s residential service in the heart of a residential community, you will be caring for children 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 a Team Leader, you will assist the management team in maintaining a safe and enabling environment that provides positive experiences to children and young people. Managing the health needs of the Children forms a significant part of the service that we provide and are firmly committed to meeting the very unique and individual health care needs of our children. Our home provides a safe and nurturing environment where preconceptions are challenged and young people are encouraged to be the best that they can be and to live life to its fullest.
This is a hands’ on, shift based role. You will be leading the shift and supervising staff whilst still providing direct support to the young people in your care. You will be contracted to working 40 hrs per week and will include working at weekends and doing aprox 1 Sleep in shift per week.
Qualifications (If Required)
- Level 3 NVQ/Diploma in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People).
Qualifications
You must be able to demonstrate that you have:
QCF Level 3 in Children’s Residential Care OR NVQ 3 Diploma in Children and Young Peoples Workforce, and at least 2 years’ experience within a residential setting and ideally working towards your NVQ Level 5 Diploma.
Experience
We are looking for a dynamic individual with strong values, self motivated, good people skills, experience of supervising staff and competent in IT.
You may be a shift leader or senior support worker currently looking for your next step, working in children's residential care or children's hospital, or as a youth worker.
You will need to have good working knowledge on the children’s homes regulations and working with children with complex learning difficulties.
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
- Strong communication skills
- The ability to communicate on various levels
- Working knowledge of, following, and working to Care Plans
- Experience of shift leading, delegating tasks, providing support and undertaking staff supervisions.
- The ability to work effectively during high pressured situations
- You will ideally hold a full and valid driving license as part of this role can involve transporting the children to and from school and to go out in the community.
Qualities
You will be a caring, approachable and supportive team player with a passion to give the children in your care the best life they can have.
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
This Team Leader role offers a basic salary £29,120 (salary based on competency criteria) + Sleep In payment of £62.55 (approx. 1 per week) and the opportunity to further increase earnings through overtime paid at premium rate. In addition, there is a superb Benefits package including:
- Funded DBS and renewals
- Private health cashback plan
- Online GP, scans, physio, counselling and more
- Death in service, 2x salary
- Contributory pension
- Blue light retail discount card
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Broad training and development
- Emergency days scheme
- Performance management programme and annual review to support progression
- Refer a friend reward scheme
- Annual superstar awards
- Additional annual leave days after 2 and 5 years of service
- Utilities comparison service
- Counselling line through the Care Workers Charity
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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When I joined Wellcroft House as a student social worker in September, I knew Black History Month was just around the corner, and I wanted to create something truly meaningful. Together with Denise, one of our dedicated staff members, we brainstormed ways to make this celebration impactful for everyone. We felt that Black History Month…
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