Team Leader, Healthcare

Location: Isle of Wight

Team Leader
Salary £22,443 - £24,936
Location Newport
Permanent, Part Time – 30hrs per week

Shifts including some weekends and evenings.

Safe Haven is a mental health crisis intervention service which provides telephone, email, or face to face support and a “safe space” to adults with mental health diagnosis during evenings and weekends.

Our aims are to understand why someone is at crisis point and work with them to take steps to reduce the crisis and reduce the need for emergency intervention.

If you’re passionate about support individuals with mental health issues and are looking for a role where you will make a real difference in the lives of those you support, then this is the role for you!

JOB PURPOSE

To lead and be part of a team that supports our clients to keep them safe and help them achieve their goals.

To provide people with homes and specialist support so they feel more valued and secure, and ready to take the next steps.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

* To support your team to achieve their potential through regular staff supervision, coaching, reflective practice and team meetings

* To assist the contract and performance manager with ensuring the service is fully operational, our clients are receiving the appropriate support, and service KPIs are met

* To be responsible for attendance management, performance management, quality assurance and any other staff related queries

* To attend meetings, working closely with other agencies, services, stakeholders or commissioners to provide high quality support, manage risks and support service funding

* To increase the presence of service in the local area, and engage with local communities and external partners to develop relationships, to identify how they can support us and our clients, maximise opportunities for clients as well as help us to win tenders and maintain contracts

* To plan your team's rota, taking training and absence into account to ensure capacity within the team to support clients and prioritise high risk management referrals

* To support your team where needed with their workload, and support a small caseload of clients

* To be involved in the recruitment of staff for your team

* To ensure an effective and timely response to all safeguarding issues taking appropriate action

* To collate data and generate reports where needed

* To support clients and staff in trauma informed and psychologically informed ways

* To adhere to safeguarding responsibilities, following our safeguarding policy and procedure, and those of relevant local authorities, ensuring these are followed at all times

* To help maintain health and safety, ensuring clients, visitors and buildings are safe in accordance with Health and Safety regulations, policy and procedures

* To provide basic first aid assistance until help arrives (full training is provided)

* To work confidently and efficiently when lone working

* To ensure accurate records on our client management system and compliance with GDPR through regular quality control checks

* To maintain confidentiality

* To carry out any other reasonable duties required in the interest of the organisation

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

This role has line management responsibilities

This role has financial authorisation responsibilities

This role has on call responsibilities

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

This role will require an Enhanced with Barred List(s) disclosure and barring service check is a requirement for this role. This would be completed on appointment of the role.

This role will require a full drivers’ licence and access to a vehicle

This role will require you to work flexibly across several sites

This role will require you to work with clients on a one-to-one basis

This role will require you to work weekends

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

Experience of working in a residential or institutional or similar sector

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Clear verbal and written English

Strong keyboard skills for data inputting

Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word

Confident and assertive manner

Strong team working

Ability to respond calmly to crisis

Deal promptly with and effectively react to challenging situations

Have an interest and genuine concern for homelessness and related issues

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

Experience of working in a leadership role

Understanding of the complex support needs of people experiencing homelessness or those with complex needs

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if a successful candidate is found, so please submit your application as soon as possible.

Two Saints is committed to safeguarding and safer recruitment. We carry out pre--employment checks such as DBS checks, Overseas police checks (where appropriate), reference checks, and CV gap querying for all new staff members