Team Leader - Health and Social Care - West Wickham

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Team Leader - Health and Social Care - West Wickham, West Wickham

Client:

Brandon Trust

Location:

West Wickham, United Kingdom

Job Category:

-

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Yes

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Posted:

28.03.2025

Expiry Date:

12.05.2025

Job Description:

Package Description:

We are seeking a Team Leader to join our supported living home in West Wickham.

Looking for your next step in social care? Are you a confident problem solver, creative thinker with excellent communication skills?

This is a full-time role, and you would be required to work flexibly across the shift rota. We require all candidates to be able to drive and have a full UK driving licence for this role.

Your skills and experience working in care could be a great match for our team leader role. All you need is to be a role model for excellent support, who can inspire others and enable them to achieve their goals.

The support we provide is centred around each person’s values, preferences, and needs. This includes developing daily living skills, accessing a wider community, personal care, and medication needs. In this role, you’ll also lead and support a team of support workers.

You will:

• Have proven previous experience of working with people with learning disabilities and autism.
• Hold a relevant social care qualification or be working towards one.
• Have previous management experience along with a management qualification (desirable).
• Have experience developing skills within a team.
• Be a confident problem solver and creative thinker with good communication skills.
• Have resilience to overcome challenges.

Your responsibilities:

• Empower the people we support to live the lives they want to lead.
• Provide great leadership and day-to-day supervision to a team of support workers.
• Assist the locality manager in the supervision, coaching, and mentoring of the team.
• Provide direct care and support to the people we support and model best practice.
• Co-ordinate the daily provision of support and activities for people we support to ensure the delivery of a high-quality, responsive, and efficient service.
• Manage finances and other resources, along with legal requirements and standards of care to meet.

Benefits

• Basic salary equates to £15.61 - £16.26 per hour - depending on experience.
• Sleep-ins paid at £60 extra (service dependent).
• On-going training and career development including professional qualifications.
• Contributory pension.
• Cost of DBS check covered by us.
• Rotas are planned in advance around 4-6 weeks.
• Access to Wagestream where you can track your basic salary and additional hours earnings throughout the month and stream (access) a portion of those earnings before your monthly pay date. You can also access a range of financial support and advice, as well as save directly from your earnings.
• Shopping discounts including Blue Light card, EE perks, and Costco membership.
• Successfully 'recommend a friend' to join us and you'll receive a thank-you payment.
• Access to wellbeing helplines.
• Access to Health Cash Plan.

Brandon Trust works alongside people of different abilities so they are able to create opportunities and feel empowered to live the life they want.

All support workers work flexible shifts to provide a 24/7 service. Successful applicants for this role will require an enhanced DBS check.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community.