Care Team Leader

Location

Saltdean, East Sussex | United Kingdom

Job description

Care Team Leader - Learning Disabilities Service

Salary: £12 per hour plus a wide range of health & wellbeing benefits & employee perks (read on to find out more , the opportunity to develop & progress, overtime opportunities

Full-Time opportunities from 37.5, hours per week

Team Leader Opportunity:

Do you share our passion for making a difference every day? Do you have experience of supporting individuals with learning disabilities and complex needs? If you do, we can promise you a career environment that offers you fantastic benefits, recognition, and prospects. Apply today to find out more about becoming a Team Leader with Glenholme.

Become a Team Leader with Glenholme and receive the following benefits and perks:

• Paid comprehensive training with genuine career progression
• Enrolment into our Pension scheme
• 28 days holiday plus an additional day with each year of service (up to 5 bonus days), and your birthday day off
• Life Insurance cover of £10,000, Cycle to work scheme
• Automatic entry into our  Employee Assistance Programme offering Personal and everyday advice on child support, financial advice, mental health, health and wellbeing
• Discounts on your favourite brands, restaurants, and entertainment
• Free Blue Light Card
• Hastee - access to salary before payday

Duties of a Team Leader:

We are looking for a passionate and hardworking team leader to lead a small team of staff, to enable five people with learning disabilities to live life to the full in a supported living setting.

Your role will involve making sure our service users enjoy a fulfilling and meaningful life, participate within their community and develop their independence skills and abilities. As a Team Leader, you will supervise and motivate a team of support workers, whilst also completing a hands-on role to ensure the highest quality care and support is provided.

At all times you will be leading and promoting independence, choice, and inclusion. Making sure the shifts are managed efficiently, assuring that activities, management of medication, and other daily tasks including community-based activities are planned and carried out. You will also be responsible for documentation and systems and procedures during the shift.

Job Requirements of a Team Leader:

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who holds supervisory experience and is looking for a new opportunity. Our ideal candidate will have the following skills:

• Experience of supporting people with learning disabilities and/or complex needs (essential)
• Experience of supervising staff and role modelling good practice
• Experience of inducting new staff and leading a team to deliver positive results.
• Ability to communicate effectively with service users, their friends and family and other professionals
• Ability to enable service users to engage in a wide range of activities and have fun
• Level 3 Diploma in Social Care or Equivalent (ideally)
• UK Driving Licence for a minimum of 3 years and ability to drive service users' vehicles (ideally)
• Good IT and literacy skills
• Occasionally be able to deputise for Manager and Deputy Manager
• Diligent, enthusiastic and passionate.

Press apply today to find out more!

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£12 per hour