Job Introduction
Seeking a Team Leader in Exeter
Are you a confident problem solver, creative thinker with excellent communication skills?
You will support a gentleman with autism and a learning disability, living in his own home. Support is centred around his values, preferences and needs. This includes developing daily living skills, accessing a wider community, personal care and medication needs. You will lead and support a team of support workers.
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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