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Team Leader Residential

Team Leader Residential

Action for ChildrenHeadington, Oxfordshire, England
29 days ago
Salary
£31,800.00 yearly
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Permanent
Job description

Role : Team Leader Residential

Salary : Up to £31,100 (Depending on experience and qualifications) + £700 on call allowance

Location : Headington, Oxfordshire

Contract / Hours : Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week.

Benefits :

  • 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
  • Free Parking
  • Supportive supervision
  • Gain professional qualifications and excellent training / development opportunities.
  • Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
  • Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
  • Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 688,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role :

Viking House is a six-bed residential short break home for Children and young people aged between 5 and 18 years old with complex additional needs. The home offers short breaks for children and is a place of laughter fun and new experiences where the children can thrive, learn, and develop helping them to achieve a positive future.

Whilst the children are with us, we strive to create a homely environment but providing them with warm and nurturing care, in a cosy and clean environment.

The successful applicant will have a real opportunity to work as part of a team, who will improve the outcomes of children and young people by providing safe, stable, and loving homes for them to live and thrive in.

We will actively support you in your role and provide you with regular supervision / APR process and specialist training including a commitment to achieve Level 5, Leadership and Management qualification from our newly developed Professional Development Centre

How you'll help to create brighter futures :

As a Team leader your aim is to positively lead and support a team of workers to ensure that a safe and friendly environment is provided for the children and young people. You will work with the registered manager in the day to day running of the home and deputise in their absence.

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team ensuring that the children and young people, we support develop to reach their full potential. We will actively support you in your role and provide you with regular supervision.

  • Supporting Young People to achieve positive outcomes.
  • Provide direct line management to a team of residential staff to deliver high standards of care.
  • Leading shifts and supervising staff
  • Link working with young people (managing paperwork and files).
  • Developing care plans and identifying agreed outcomes.
  • Responsible for the safeguarding of young people.
  • Being an advocate for the wellbeing of the young people.

    • Let's talk about you.

  • In this role, you'll contribute to our vision of ensuring safe and happy childhoods. To achieve that real change to vulnerable children, young people and families, there'll be certain qualities that you will have.
  • Experience of working with children or young people with complex needs within a residential setting.
  • Level 3 QCF Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent)
  • A positive and confident approach to engaging with children and young people,
  • The ability to work effectively as part of a team. - IT literate, the ideal candidate must be confident in using a computer.

    • Good to know.

    Application Process

    Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

    There are five sections to complete : Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

    Diversity, equality, and inclusion

    At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

    Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

    Don't meet every single requirement?

    If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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