Team Leader - Children & Young Adults

Team Leader – Children & Young Adults 

Essential Criteria: Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare

Location: Hertfordshire

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Part-time – 32 hours per week - Shifts

Salary: £24,044.80 - £26,241.28 per annum, linked to competency and qualifications

Our client is currently looking for a Team Leader their Children’s home which provides care and therapeutic support for children and young people age 6-19 years with severe and profound communication difficulties associated with conditions such as cerebral palsy, autism, and degenerative disorders. 

Responsibilities

• To have a passion to make a difference, to enable children and young people to succeed and feel valued.
• To  actively promote and maintain a stable, happy homely and caring environment that puts the health, safety and welfare of our young people first. 
• Provide support to the Care Managers through the management, motivation and coaching of a team of support workers and Senior Support workers.
• Be responsible for a team that provide appropriate physical and emotional support to the children and young people through the work of the care team within a residential environment and with off-site activities. This will include: GP other health related appointments, visits to families and trips out.
• Help with the induction of new team members and their continued mentoring and development towards QCF and other mandatory training.
• Carry out supervisions along with dealing with Performance Management issues within your team. 
• Take an active role in ensuring that activities are completed, and effectively delegated and day-to-day implementation of young people’s individual program plans are carried out efficiently with adequate cover available at all times.
• Ensure that all documentation is kept up to date. 
• Undertake on a regular basis sleeping-in duties for which an allowance is paid and waking night duties and undertake duty manager/on call responsibilities
• Please note that the role may require participation in physical intervention and personal care. 

Skills and Qualifications 

• Take an active role in ensuring that activities are completed, and effectively delegated and day-to-day implementation of young people’s individual program plans are carried out efficiently with adequate cover available at all times.
• Ensure that all documentation is kept up to date.
• Undertake on a regular basis sleeping-in duties for which an allowance is paid and waking night duties and undertake duty manager/on call responsibilities
• Please note that the role may require participation in physical intervention and personal care.