Location: Stoke on Trent, Hanley
Rate: £13.79 per hour
Contract: Permanent, Full time, 37.5 hours per week

Role Description
We are looking for a Team Leader to work within our growing Supported living team at Hanley DCA, a supported living service providing care and support for people with learning disabilities and/or autistic spectrum disorder. The Team Leader will oversee the day to day of the scheme, act as a role model to staff, and take pride in providing the practical and emotional care that enables the supported individual to lead a good quality of life. You will also be expected to support the Registered Manager and Service Manager in their absence.
You will:

• Deliver person-centred support in line with individual support plans
• Assist with daily living skills and personal care where required
• Promote independence, dignity, and wellbeing
• Support activities, appointments, and community access
• Maintain accurate records and work effectively as part of a team
• Work a rota including evenings, weekends, bank holidays, and sleep-ins
• Supervise the day to day delivery of care, to ensure the identified needs of the people we support are met
• Be responsible for the care, welfare and safety of tenants
• Oversee the safeguarding of the people we support and make referrals where appropriate
• Oversee the professional development and personal well-being of the staff team
• Coordinate the service and participate in reviews, assessment and reassessment of needs, and develop person centred support plans
• Participate when required in recruitment of staff within an equal opportunities framework
• Undertake regular supervisions with staff
• Act as a skills coach for staff and chair regular team meetings
• Attend training and development sessions
• Ensure legislation, care standards and company policies and procedures are followed
• Complete weekly KPIs, oversee the service development plan, and plan and oversee training
• Attend reviews with social care and feedback

Who We're Looking For
Caring, patient and respectful people with a positive and resilient approach. Confident working independently and within a team, with good communication skills, basic IT and written abilities, and flexibility and reliability.
Requirements

• Willingness to work towards Health & Social qualification
• Ability to work unsociable hours on a rota basis
• Drivers desirable but not essential
• Enhanced DBS required (paid for by CareTech)

What We Offer

• Recommend A Friend Bonus
• Up to 28 Days Holiday, inclusive of Bank Holidays
• Free DBS Check
• Blue Light Card
• Stakeholder Pension
• Free Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual Employee Awards Evening
• Employee Recognition Schemes
• Ongoing training with clear career progression, including access to qualifications up to degree level
• CareTech Foundation - opportunity to apply for family and friend's grant

Some roles may require male or female employees only, where this is a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.