Team Leader – Childrens Residential Services – starting at £28,652
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CLOSING DATE |
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| 38 Hours |
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30th June 2024 | |
QUALIFICATIOONS (IF REQUIRED) |
SERVICE AREA |
SALARY |
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£28,652 | |
Team Leader – Childrens Residential Service
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 3 bed (soon to be 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.
Your role is also vital to the progression of children and young people. You will encourage 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.
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.
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:
NVQ 3 Diploma or QCF Level 3 in Children and Young Peoples Workforce or in Residential Childcare or equivalent, and at least 2 years’ experience within a residential setting and ideally working towards your NVQ Level 5 Diploma
Experience
You will have previous experience as a Team Leader, shift leader or Senior Support worker within a children's residential setting and experience of working with children and/or 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 Conflict Management and dealing with difficult situations
• The ability to work effectively during high pressured situations
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 salary of £28,652, and a superb Benefits package including:
FREE DBS!
Over 5 weeks Holiday!
Blue Light Shopping Discount Scheme!
Genuine Career Development Opportunities!
Health Benefits Plan and Life Assurance!
Contributory Pension Scheme!
Ongoing Training!
Annual awards and recognition,
plus much, much more!
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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