Team Leader Residential
Salary: Up to £31,800 per annum (inc. On Call allowance £700)
Location: Peterborough
Contract/Hours: Permanent/Full Time - It's important to highlight that you will be working a standard 37 hour week, as part of the shift or to sleep-in (where additional payments would be made) and there are limited 'on call' responsibilities.
Benefits:
- 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
- Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
- Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers' discounts.
Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 688,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children.
A bit about the role
As a Team Leader, your role involves coordinating case management for our young person. You'll take the lead in delivering our therapeutic approach driven by love and commitment. You will lead the team in demonstrating a high standard of person-centred practice and be a strong role model for the staff team.
Our Team Leader will support management to create and maintain a safe and supportive environment for our young person to grow and develop. You will ensure their wellbeing is prioritised by delivering person centred care, guidance, and advocacy.
About the service
As a Team Leader in our Peterborough service, you'll be supporting the transition our of young person into their own forever home!
They've been living in their current setting in Hampshire for some time and therefore our mission is to bring them home, where they'll be close to family and receive the stability, consistency, and appropriate care they need.
Our approach is therapeutic, driven by love and a commitment to helping the young person thrive. We aim to integrate them into the community as much as possible by supporting and encouraging independence as they transition into adulthood.
Working closely with partner agencies including health, education, and social care partners, as well as the young person's family, we'll provide high-quality support using a trauma-informed approach. These relationships will enable our young person to do all of the things they enjoy.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
- Having a good understanding of the challenges faces by vulnerable, care experienced young people.
- Having a good understanding of the challenges of working within the management team in a residential childcare setting.
- Having the confidence and ability to engage with other professionals and contribute meaningfully to multi-agency meetings.
- Preparing care plans and risk management reports.
- Having good leadership skills and the ability to provide support and guidance to the staff team.
- Being a creative thinker and having a solution focused approach.
Let's talk about you.
- Flexibility to visit our young person in their existing setting in Hampshire which may include overnight stays for an initial period of 3 months
- An NVQ Level 3 in social care is desirable but we are very open to relevant experience, rather than a qualification.
- The ability to motivate and lead a team, supporting and making decisions under pressure.
- Knowledge of Proact-SCIPr-UK - Full training can be provided.
- Working with children, young people, their families, and carers to promote and to ensure the safeguarding and the welfare of the child / young person.
- The ability to evidence a high standard of written and verbal communication including care plans.
- Experience of leading a team/supervising staff in a similar role
- A robust knowledge of Therapeutic based models of practice and service delivery.
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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