Team Leader
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 19 Medi 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £29,260.97 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 30 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Merseyside, North West England |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 2 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Options For Supported Living |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | TL2025 |
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Job Description
Team Leader
Reports to: Development Manager
Role: To lead and manage a team to provide brilliant support to enable people with learning disabilities to lead full and rich lives, taking full responsibility for all aspects of people’s support.
Person/People Supported:
1. Enable people supported to achieve their full potential.
2. Shape the support provided and how it is provided to ensure it reflects people’s wishes, using person centred planning and specifically Essential Lifestyle Planning.
3. Ensure the support focuses on delivery of what people want through developing and managing team action plans.
4. Promote and act within the framework of John O’Brien’s Five Service Accomplishments, and Options’ Mission, Aims and Beliefs (see attached)
5. Maximise the safety of people supported, staff and the community within the overall goal of supporting them to achieve positive outcomes in their lives (producing comprehensive risk assessments, and MOSTs).
6. Develop and maintain Guidelines for Support, which ensure people are well supported, when anxious or worried (including proactive and reactive strategies).
7. Ensure people’s primary health needs are met, including safe and proper administration of medication.
8. Evaluate the performance of the support against outcomes for people supported.
9. Provide direct support to people, role-modelling best practice.
Staff:
1. Provide clear direction to the team setting goals and objectives reflecting what the person supported wants.
2. Enable staff to achieve their full potential through effective leadership and management.
3. Identify the individual talents and abilities of staff, and reflecting the needs of people supported, develop these through training and development.
4. Develop the individual staff to become a team through training, development and regular meetings.
5. Recruit and induct new staff in conjunction with the development manager.
6. Provide support and supervision for all staff per the Support and Supervision Policy.
7. Manage rotas, sickness, absence, and annual leave to provide fully for people supported and also to ensure staff can have a balanced life.
8. Act as a role model for staff.
9. Manage and direct staff in line with organisation’s Working Values (Above).
10. Ensure all staff comply with policies, procedures and systems.
11. Develop, implement and evaluate annual Team Action Plans.
12. Carry out disciplinary investigations when necessary.
Finances and Administration:
1. Assist people supported to maximise their income.
2. Manage service income and expenditure, keeping full records of all income and expenditure and monitor this on a monthly basis.
3. Ensure people supported have maximum control over their finances.
4. Ensure all staff fully comply with financial and administrative procedures.
5. Complete a monthly review of actual expenditure against budgeted expenditure.
Management and Organisation:
1. Participate in the on-call system.
2. Implement and work to all policies and procedures.
3. Promote positive relationships with those closest to people supported, and all others helping to support them.
4. Liaise with other professional staff involved in support.
5. Ensure effective communication between all parties.
Self-Development:
1. Develop effective self-management with the assistance of the Development Manager.
2. Attend and participate in all training and development as identified to develop one’s own skills, and abilities. (This may well be in addition to contracted weekly hours and up to 15 days per year.)
3. Maintain a constant desire to learn and grow.
Person Specification
Experience:
• At least one year’s experience of working in a supported living environment with people with learning disabilities.
• A track record of making things happen in people’s lives.
Qualifications:
• None.
Skills, Values and Knowledge:
• Positive Value Base and Person Centred Approach - committed to ensuring that people with learning disabilities are valued and enabled to take control of their own lives. To champion this when the going gets tough.
• Leadership Skills - demonstrate the ability to set direction, lead staff, to motivate them and to ensure things get done within the context of teamwork and enabling staff. Able to develop and deliver comprehensive and detailed plans.
• Listening Skills - able to actively listen to what people supported are communicating, and to design support to reflect this.
• Relationship Skills - to get on well with people supported and others around them. To be comfortable and relaxed in their presence, supporting them and involving others in the community.
• Positive Role Model - hard-working, motivated, flexible and pro-active, someone who sees what needs to be done, gets it done but can be relaxed about the pace at which some things will happen.
• Communication Skills - able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with strong inter-personal skills.
• Integrity - have a clear desire and commitment to working out one’s values openly and honestly.
• Problem Solving Skills - demonstrate skills in understanding complex situations and difficulties, and work thoughtfully, sensitively, creatively and purposefully to solve these.
• Personal Learning and Development -show a desire and openness to learn and develop evidenced through continuous training and development. Be prepared to ask when help is needed.
• Driver - a driver with less than 8 points on license. Driver desirable, but not essential.
All successful applicants are subject to a DBS and pre-employment checks.
We currently do not hold a sponsorship licence, therefore are not able to offer sponsorship of employment at this time.
Job Description
Team Leader
Reports to: Development Manager
Role: To lead and manage a team to provide brilliant support to enable people with learning disabilities to lead full and rich lives, taking full responsibility for all aspects of people’s support.
Person/People Supported:
1. Enable people supported to achieve their full potential.
2. Shape the support provided and how it is provided to ensure it reflects people’s wishes, using person centred planning and specifically Essential Lifestyle Planning.
3. Ensure the support focuses on delivery of what people want through developing and managing team action plans.
4. Promote and act within the framework of John O’Brien’s Five Service Accomplishments, and Options’ Mission, Aims and Beliefs (see attached)
5. Maximise the safety of people supported, staff and the community within the overall goal of supporting them to achieve positive outcomes in their lives (producing comprehensive risk assessments, and MOSTs).
6. Develop and maintain Guidelines for Support, which ensure people are well supported, when anxious or worried (including proactive and reactive strategies).
7. Ensure people’s primary health needs are met, including safe and proper administration of medication.
8. Evaluate the performance of the support against outcomes for people supported.
9. Provide direct support to people, role-modelling best practice.
Staff:
1. Provide clear direction to the team setting goals and objectives reflecting what the person supported wants.
2. Enable staff to achieve their full potential through effective leadership and management.
3. Identify the individual talents and abilities of staff, and reflecting the needs of people supported, develop these through training and development.
4. Develop the individual staff to become a team through training, development and regular meetings.
5. Recruit and induct new staff in conjunction with the development manager.
6. Provide support and supervision for all staff per the Support and Supervision Policy.
7. Manage rotas, sickness, absence, and annual leave to provide fully for people supported and also to ensure staff can have a balanced life.
8. Act as a role model for staff.
9. Manage and direct staff in line with organisation’s Working Values (Above).
10. Ensure all staff comply with policies, procedures and systems.
11. Develop, implement and evaluate annual Team Action Plans.
12. Carry out disciplinary investigations when necessary.
Finances and Administration:
1. Assist people supported to maximise their income.
2. Manage service income and expenditure, keeping full records of all income and expenditure and monitor this on a monthly basis.
3. Ensure people supported have maximum control over their finances.
4. Ensure all staff fully comply with financial and administrative procedures.
5. Complete a monthly review of actual expenditure against budgeted expenditure.
Management and Organisation:
1. Participate in the on-call system.
2. Implement and work to all policies and procedures.
3. Promote positive relationships with those closest to people supported, and all others helping to support them.
4. Liaise with other professional staff involved in support.
5. Ensure effective communication between all parties.
Self-Development:
1. Develop effective self-management with the assistance of the Development Manager.
2. Attend and participate in all training and development as identified to develop one’s own skills, and abilities. (This may well be in addition to contracted weekly hours and up to 15 days per year.)
3. Maintain a constant desire to learn and grow.
Person Specification
Experience:
• At least one year’s experience of working in a supported living environment with people with learning disabilities.
• A track record of making things happen in people’s lives.
Qualifications:
• None.
Skills, Values and Knowledge:
• Positive Value Base and Person Centred Approach - committed to ensuring that people with learning disabilities are valued and enabled to take control of their own lives. To champion this when the going gets tough.
• Leadership Skills - demonstrate the ability to set direction, lead staff, to motivate them and to ensure things get done within the context of teamwork and enabling staff. Able to develop and deliver comprehensive and detailed plans.
• Listening Skills - able to actively listen to what people supported are communicating, and to design support to reflect this.
• Relationship Skills - to get on well with people supported and others around them. To be comfortable and relaxed in their presence, supporting them and involving others in the community.
• Positive Role Model - hard-working, motivated, flexible and pro-active, someone who sees what needs to be done, gets it done but can be relaxed about the pace at which some things will happen.
• Communication Skills - able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with strong inter-personal skills.
• Integrity - have a clear desire and commitment to working out one’s values openly and honestly.
• Problem Solving Skills - demonstrate skills in understanding complex situations and difficulties, and work thoughtfully, sensitively, creatively and purposefully to solve these.
• Personal Learning and Development -show a desire and openness to learn and develop evidenced through continuous training and development. Be prepared to ask when help is needed.
• Driver - a driver with less than 8 points on license. Driver desirable, but not essential.
All successful applicants are subject to a DBS and pre-employment checks.
We currently do not hold a sponsorship licence, therefore are not able to offer sponsorship of employment at this time.