Team Leader - Plymouth

Job Introduction

Seeking a Team Leader in Plymouth

Looking for your next step in social care? 

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of our dynamic team, and play a key role in developing and nurturing new team members to support a gentleman with a learning disability and autism to move into his new home.

Your skills and experience working in care could be a great match for our Team Leader role. You will be a great role model, providing  excellent support; inspire, motivate and enable others to achieve their goals. You will be resilient, calm and confident in approach.

Delivering excellent quality and outcomes for the people we support is at the heart of everything we do, and you’ll be instrumental in ensuring our high standards are met.

With the support of the registered manager you will offer support, advice and guidance to your team and coach them to develop new skills, providing regular supervision and effectively deploying resources. 

The support we provide is centred around each person’s values, preferences and needs. This includes developing daily living skills, accessing a wider community, personal care and medication needs. In this role you’ll also lead and support a team of support workers. 

Full and part-time opportunities available 

A full UK manual driving licence desirable.

Benefits 

• Sleep-ins paid at £60 extra (basic salary £15.11 - £15.58p/h)  

• On-going training and career development including professional qualifications  

• Contributory pension  

• We cover the cost of DBS checks  

• Rota's are planned in advance.  

• Access to Wagestream where you can track your basic salary and additional hours earnings throughout the month and stream (access) a portion of those earnings before your monthly pay date. You can also access a range of financial support and advice, as well as save directly from your earnings. 

• Shopping discounts including Blue Light card, EE perks and Costco membership  

• Successfully 'recommend a friend' to join us and you'll receive a thank-you payment  

• Access to wellbeing helplines.  

• Health Cash Plan 

You will:  

• Be a confident problem solver and creative thinker with good communication skills 

• Resilience to overcome challenges 

• Experience working with people with a learning disability 

• Experience developing skills within a team 

• Previous management experience is desirable  

• Relevant social care qualification 

• A management qualification would be desirable.  

Your responsibilities:  

• To empower the people we support to live the lives they want to lead 

• Provide great leadership and day-to-day supervision to a team of support workers. 

• Assist the locality manager in the supervision, coaching and mentoring of the team. 

• Provide direct care and support to the people we support and model best practice. 

• Co-ordinate the daily provision of support and activities for people we support to ensure the delivery of a high quality, responsive and efficient service. 

• You’ll have finances and other resources to manage, along with legal requirements and standards of care to meet.  

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