Supported Living Team Leader

4Recruitment Services are seeking a Team Leader for a for Supported Living Service located within Trafford. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: To support and assist the Manager and to manage and supervise a team of Support Workers  To ensure that the team work towards promoting and maximising the independence of Service Users and empowering and enabling individuals to make informed choices whist living their lives to the full within the community. To support and assist the Manager to provide a safe service, ensuring that safeguarding incidents are reported and managed in accordance with the policies, practices and procedures of the Local Authority.  To supervise Support Workers on a day-to-day basis, ensuring that services provided by the team are of a consistently high quality, ensuring continuity of person centred care and support and adhering to the guidelines of best practice. To allocate tasks to Support Workers on a daily basis and to effectively co-coordinate all available resources to ensure the safe, efficient and effective running of the service. ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE: Minimum of NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in health and social care or leadership and management.  (Level 5 would be preferable, but not essential Experience in a supervisory capacity in a relevant care setting within the past 2 years Experience of supervising a small team of staff on a rota basis to provide care which delivers high quality customer outcomes Experience of ensuring that standards, policies, procedures are in place, understood and adhered to Understanding of relevant social care legislation and regulatory requirements and the implications of these for the service Enhanced DBS check What we offer: 24 hour one on one specialist consultant based within your geographical area 4Recruitment Services Employee Benefits Programme Our own dedicated payroll support ensuring you get the full benefits of your payment Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. 4Recruitment Services is an equal opportunities employer. To discuss this vacancy in further detail or any other vacancies , please contact our Team on (phone number removed) or email