Team Leader, Management

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title:

Team leader

Responsible to:
Registered Manager / Service Manager

Job Location:

Based at Launceston office, but travel required between sites and East

Devon area to meet the business need.

Pay rate: £14.50ph weekday, £14.60ph weekend

A Team Leader is traditionally someone who provides direction, instructions, and guidance to a group of individuals, who can also be known as a team, for the purpose of achieving a certain goal. An effective leader will know their team members' strengths, weaknesses, and motivations.

Team leaders serve various roles in an organisation. Their job is to get tasks done by using all of the resources available to them, including other employees or team members. Our team leader must:

• Develop a strategy with their own Manager that the team will use to reach its goal
• Help to identify any training that team members need through shadowing & observations
• Communicate clear instructions to team members
• Listen to team members' feedback
• Monitor team members' participation to ensure the training they are being provided is being put into use, help to identify any “stars” in the company
• Create clear & timely reports to update the Manager on the team's progress or issues

The Team Leader role within our organisation will also be a very client facing role, with you being out and about reviewing client care needs, completing assessments and overseeing their care delivery. The Team Leader role is the link for both clients and staff, to the office and further advice and support.

Building strong relationships with the care team is vital and enables members of that Team to enjoy their work, feel valued & respected, not just by the Office but the Organisation as a whole. This in turn encourages them to care about their colleagues, perhaps making them think twice before putting them under unnecessary pressure from for example, short term absences.

Taking an active role in the co-ordination and delivery of the care service by managing a designated caseload and all associated tasks, including out of hours service.

Responsibility for the supervision of staff, both in the community and through regular meetings.

• Commitment to provision of a service-user led and quality service
• Provide each service user with a named Team leader to support person centred care provision
• Aid motivation and staff development
• To monitor that staff practice is in accordance with current legislation and best practice guidance
• To encourage service user and carer participation and involvement.
• To promote the independence of service users and quality service delivery
• Promote & re-enforce Compliance & Company Goals & Objectives throughout the Team
• To take accountability for your role and associated responsibilities.
• To assist the Registered Manager in ensuring the service remains compliant and meets regulatory standards.

The practical elements of the Job Description will allow the Manager and Deputy to give more meaningful time to developing the Team Leader / Team member relationship further strengthening the commitment from the staff to the Company.

• Hold Level 3 Diploma in Health & Social Care or willing to work to attain Level 3, continuous approach to PDP
• Flexible working ability
• Excellent communication skills, verbal & written
• Reliable, professional & smart appearance
• Proven understanding of the principles of good practice
• Good knowledge of those requiring Care & Support at home, Company demographic & runs
• Good time keeping
• Well organised, able to self-motivate & plan within the direction of the Manager
• Good understanding of health & safety in relation to the services we provide & the risk and needs process
• Respectful of…