Team Leader - Drug and Alcohol

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Team Leader - Drug and Alcohol, East London

Location: East London, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference:

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95

Posted:

11.03.2025

Expiry Date:

25.04.2025

Job Description:

Team Leader - Drug and Alcohol

We are seeking a Team Leader to join an East London Drug and Alcohol Service. This is an exciting new opportunity to work flexibly and creatively as a member of our multidisciplinary team to determine what is required to make the greatest positive impact on everyone who is referred to the programme.

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing a team of employees and managing performance, sick leave, supervision (including reflective practice), and ensuring that employees adhere to internal and external policies that are relevant to their positions.
• Giving employees the tools they need to help service users realise their full potential as people and members of the community by empowering them to make choices, take initiative, and create opportunities.
• Assist your team and the designated safeguarding lead in making sure that the procedures followed by the team or service make it possible to identify service users, kids, and families who are in danger.
• Verify that personnel can provide interventions that lower risk to clients.
• Offer prompt, values-based feedback to employees so they may apply observed practice to improve service user outcomes.
• Take the lead in hiring, choosing, and orienting new employees.

Experience Required:

• Possess a degree or comparable relevant experience in education.
• Expertise and background in creating, managing, and providing health and social care services that meet high performance and quality requirements.
• Considerable expertise managing groups of people who assist families whose children are receiving social care intervention.
• Familiarity with the most recent laws pertaining to minors and safeguarding procedures.
• Able to motivate, inspire, and lead a group.
• Possess strong communication skills both in writing and speech, as well as proficiency with Word, Excel, and Outlook.