Team Leader Residential

Role:
Team Leader Residential Salary: £31,700.00 per annum (Depending on experience and qualifications) Inc. £700 On Call allowance

Location:

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire Contract/

Hours:

Permanent/Full Time hours 37 hours per week. Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
• Free Parking
• 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
• Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers’ discounts.

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. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

The Grove is a residential Short Breaks home in Aylesbury that supports young people to achieve their potential, have fun and make friends within a safe supportive environment. We provide residential short breaks supporting young people with learning disabilities and complex health needs.

As a Team leader your aim is to positively lead and support a team of workers to ensure that a safe and friendly environment is provided for the children and young people. You will work with the registered manager in the day to day running of the home and deputise in their absence. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team ensuring that the children and young people we support develop and reach their full potential.

• Provide direct line management to a team of residential staff to deliver high standards of care.
• Lead shifts and supervising staff, to help the young people to achieve positive outcomes.
• Link working with the young people (managing paperwork and files).
• Developing care plans and identifying agreed outcomes.
• Responsible for the safeguarding and be an advocate for their wellbeing.

In this role, you'll contribute to our vision of ensuring safe and happy childhoods. To achieve that real change to vulnerable children, young people and families, there'll be certain qualities that you will have.

• Experience of working with children or young people with complex needs within a residential setting.
• Level 3 QCF Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent)
• A positive and confident approach to engaging with children and young people,
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team. – IT literate, the ideal candidate must be confident in using a computer.

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

There are five sections to complete:
Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.

Sarah Manderfield or email us at recruitmentserv quoting reference 12703

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.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

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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Job Description

See below for further information about working with us:

Action for Children Employee Benefits

AfC Commitment Statement

Management Competency Framework

Action for Children - Driven by Love

Make a Difference - A Career in Residential Services