Overview:
Team Leader - Young Adult Residential Care
Location: Meldreth, Nr. Royston - Cambridgeshire / Hertfordshire
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full-time - 40 hours per week - Shifts
Salary: £14.45 - £15.77 per hour (linked to competency and qualifications)
Annual Salary: £30,056 - £32,802 per year for a 40 hour week
The Role:
We are currently looking for a Team Leader to work for Aurora Orchard Manor. Rated CQC Outstanding Aurora Orchard Manor is set within 14 acres, Orchard Manor offers a supportive living and learning environment for young adults with severe and profound learning difficulties and complex health needs. With specialist facilities and a focus on promoting independence, we support each of our young people through the transition from education into adulthood with a focus on person-centred programmes to promote independence.
Find out more about the amazing work we do - Supported Living Accommodation for Young Adults Meldreth, Cambridge (theauroragroup.co.uk)
Key responsibilities:
- Provide support to the Care Managers through the management, motivation and coaching of a team of support workers and Senior Support workers to maintain a stable, happy and caring environment that puts the health, safety and welfare of our young people first.
- Be responsible for a team that provide appropriate physical and emotional support to the young people through the work of the care team within a residential environment and with off-site activities. This will include:
- Help with the induction of new team members and their continued mentoring and development towards QCF and other mandatory training.
- Carry out supervisions along with dealing with Performance Management issues within your team.
- Take an active role in ensuring that activities are completed, and effectively delegated and day-to-day implementation of young people's individual program plans are carried out efficiently with adequate cover available at all times.
- Ensure that all documentation is kept up to date.
- Undertake on a regular basis sleeping-in duties for which an allowance is paid and waking night duties and undertake duty manager/on call responsibilities
- Please note that the role may require participation in physical intervention and personal care.
Duties will vary, for a full job description please contact Kirsty from the recruitment team: kirsty.wilkinson@the-aurora-group.com
Responsibilities:
Experience:
- QCF Level 3 in Adult Social Care
- Shift / team leading experience
- Superb communication skills
- Highly organised
- Ability to lead and motivate
Qualifications:
- 33 days' holiday including bank holidays
- Life assurance and pension
- Perkbox - access to shopping discounts
- Car lease scheme
- Bike to work scheme
- Free membership to our Health cash back plan - Claim back money on services such as dental, optical, physio and many more.
- Free parking
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.
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