Team Leader - Children's Residential

About Us

Green Waves is a 1-2 bed home and welcomes children between the ages of 12 up to 18 years at the time of referral. We are a new short-term emergency assessment home that provides support to children from a few days to a few months at times of crisis or significant periods of change in their lives. The children will have a variety of social, emotional, and behavioural needs brought on by early childhood trauma and family breakup.

These children are often at risk in the community and as such, it is our goal to keep them safe from harm whilst we work with partner agencies to find a suitable placement or to support them to reintegrate into their previous or a new setting.

Green Waves is an exciting home to work in with a fantastic, supportive team, providing exceptional care and support for children. Take a look at Daniel's staff story on being a Team Leader at West Sussex County Council by clicking here!

We are seeking a Team Leader at Green Waves who will lead on key areas such as health and safety, training and supervision of staff, creating rotas and overseeing medication for children.

You will be expected to play a key part in new referrals to the Home, leading and arranging activities around children's needs and ensuring all children are safe with their emotional, physical, educational and social needs met. You will motivate children and staff to reach their full potential through positive role modelling, mentoring, planning and resolving problems and barriers.

To succeed in this role, you will build positive relationships with key professionals, the child's family and the child. Children will be encouraged to partake in a range of activities, both in and outdoors to build upon their confidence and resilience. You will motivate staff and children to achieve their full potential whilst effectively prioritising tasks and managing your time.

Shifts and rotas - for day work, you will be required to work on a shift rota between 07:00 - 22:00, which will include every other weekend and sleep in duties when needed. This will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate.

Salary: £38,220 - £40,777 per annum (includes weekend working allowance) plus generous pension, annual leave and additional benefits
Working Pattern
:
Full time - 37 hours per week
Contract
:
Permanent
Location
:
Worthing

• Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or equivalent qualification.
• Significant level of experience within a position relevant to the residential care of children.
• Experience of working within a team, dealing with a diverse range of situations while prioritising the wellbeing of children and achieving set targets.
• Ability to assess, plan and undertake risk assessments for individual children, ensuring the needs of all children are met.
• Sound communication and interpersonal skills in order to provide clear and concise advice and specialist guidance to a range of staff, Children, and other professionals.
• Ability to provide clear professional practice guidance to staff, challenging poor practice and ensuring high standards are maintained.
• Ability to effectively manage the time and priorities of self and others
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate problems and resolve issues independently, planning solutions and make sound pragmatic decisions.
• Good literacy and IT skills to be able to maintain children's records, write reports, emails, supervision records, etc.

As an employer we recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive and dynamic working environment where you can achieve your full potential and are rewarded for the work you do.

In addition to working within a great team and a brilliant opportunity you will receive:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement
• access to a wide selection of retail discounts and savings such as groceries, shopping, travel and more through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform.
• a range of commuting and business travel discount and initiatives
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• health and wellbeing benefits…