Team Leader, Healthcare

Support Services Team Leader - Leeds

Location:
Daniel Yorath House

Salary: £15.12 per hour

Hours: 35 Hours per week

Brainkind supports people with an acquired brain injury and complex needs such as cognitive, physical, and/or emotional difficulties, including physical and verbal aggression, impaired social functioning, and disinhibited behaviour.

Our highly skilled team offer compassionate and specialised person-centred care, in a safe and
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• To contribute to and have responsibility for providing quality social and vocational support services for service users within a specified group at a specified location or group of locations.
• To lead, supervise and develop a team of support workers to ensure the needs of the service users are met according to their individual support plan in line with company policy and procedures and regulatory standards.

The Team Leader is expected to be fully competent in all aspects of the Support Worker.

• Establish and maintain professional relationships with stakeholders in order to compliment and contribute to the positive reputation of the company.
• To provide line management to a designated team of staff within a specified group at a location or group of locations within the allocated division.
• To undertake any reasonable traveling requirements in order to fulfil the tasks and responsibilities of the role. This may include supporting other locations within the Division as required.
• To set and communicate high standards of care and professional conduct within the team supervised.
• To lead and support compliance with Brainkind quality audits.
• To lead and support in health and safety duties as appropriate
  
  To contribute information for the accurate notification of incidents/accidents/safeguarding as appropriate.
• Represent Brainkind at meetings and seminars and any other external events, where appropriate.
• Contributing to effective liaison with stakeholders and external agencies with local authorities, families, advocates, GPs, local safeguarding teams, other DT departments and professionals within the realms of Health and Social Care that have an impact on service provision in consultation with senior colleagues.
• To monitor and be responsible for the day to day spending at the location, to include Trust and service user monies.
• To empower staff and service users to maintain a homely environment.
• To plan and organise in advance staff rotas to include annual leave, training and an appropriate skills mix, ensuring that the staff rota compliments service user needs and individual programmes and meets contractual obligations to commissioners.
• Ensure Administration of Medication is effectively managed, audited, ordered and stored in line with individual service user requirement and Brainkind Policy and Procedures.
• To be responsible and manage in line with local procedures various resources e.g. Walkie Talkies, location keys, IPad and mobile phones etc
• To contribute to the recruitment, selection and induction of support staff.
• To supervise, appraise, develop and train within a designated group of support workers.
• To contribute attend, plan and participate in staff meetings as appropriate.
• To contribute to, monitoring and facilitation of training.
• Comply and contribute to staff management , including capability, grievance , attendance and discipline, including where appropriate the accurate and timely completion of staff timesheets.

• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically word, excel, outlook and internet use.
• NVQ / QCF level 3 HSC or willingness to work towards within 12 months
• Previous experience of working in a care setting
• Knowledge of current relevant legislation relating to care standards,…