Team Leader (Haslemere Children’s Home)

Job description

Contract Terms

Grade: PO2
Salary: £39,951 – £42,840 per annum
Contract Type: Full Time, Permanent (36 Hours per week)
Closing Date: Sunday 13th October 2024
Interview Date: Week commencing 21st October 2024

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.
Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the Role

Haslemere is a multi-agency residential assessment service dedicated to working in partnership with a range of specialist professionals to provide care for up to six children and young people between the ages of 11-15, who present with a range of challenging and complex needs.
We are actively recruiting for 2 dedicated and passionate Team Leaders to oversee a group of key workers to ensure they are working in the context of the AMBIT model to ensure that the young people’s wishes, and choices are always considered. The Team Leaders will carry out managerial tasks such as day to day shift management reflective supervision, and any other appropriate duties as directed by the Registered or Deputy Manager.
Working in the context of our AMBIT model, to take account of the choices, needs and wishes of each young person, promoting young people in their own plans and ensuring service user needs are always considered, taking into considerations their complex need and challenging behaviours.  As a Team Leader you will be responsible to plan, evaluate, implement, and review individual plans to enhance the capabilities and independence of the service users.
Maintaining records of incidents, accidents and near misses for young people and employees in accordance with Haslemere’s policies and procedures accurately and to organise duty rotas to ensure that the needs of the young people are always met.

About You

You will have a commitment to delivering the highest quality care and support to children and young people. Prepared to go the extra mile, with a positive attitude and the ability to work effectively in a dynamic team and autonomously under your own supervision. Essential skills and qualities include the ability to work well under pressure, using initiative, demonstrate patience and understanding with an overriding enthusiasm for wanting to support and help children and young people to thrive.
It is imperative that you possess extensive knowledge of writing/reviewing home policies and procedures, and thorough knowledge of Ofsted readiness and be able to support the Registered Manager and the Deputy Manager.
Previous experience of working in a residential or school setting, a Health and Social Care NVQ qualification of level 3 and above, a flexibility in relation to the needs of the duty rota and an availability to work weekdays, weekends, public holidays and sleep in.
It is essential that all candidates must already possess a Level 3 Health & Social Care Diploma or be willing to complete a Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare within 18 months of employment.
For a full overview of the job responsibilities and Person Specification please see attached job description.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.
Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.
Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk