Team Leader

at  Camphill Village Trust

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• You’ll have social care sector (adult care services for people with learning disabilities and ideally supporting people) experience for at least 1 year.
• You’ll be a confident communicator with good verbal and written skills, who is able to manage and develop others, willing to challenge poor practice and promote development of best practice. Sleep ins are required for this role.
• You will treat others with respect, dignity, honesty and equality and recognise that they may have different viewpoints, beliefs or values.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

• You’ll probably feel that you’re ready to progress and are looking for the opportunity to take a higher level of responsibility.
• You have a passion for helping others live a fulfilling and interesting life.
• You’ll be ready to take responsibility for a number of Support Workers, providing guidance, direction and support in their role.
• You’ll be responsible for ensuring that care and support is of a high standard, focused on person centred outcomes and delivered within budget.
• You’ll be able to use a variety of methods and styles when communicating with others in a clear and mutually positive manner
• You are able to continuously encourage mutual respect and positive interactions between colleagues and people we support.
• Someone who is also keen to help arrange local and community-based events with the people we support. You’ll have a creative spirit and be keen to get involved or help create events, for example coffee mornings and film clubs.
• Working knowledge of person-centred support and care planning, needs and risk assessment, safeguarding, first line supervision, health and safety, and equalities and human rights essential.

EDUCATION

• You’ll have a good general education, good numeracy and literacy skills; it’s not essential for you to have any qualifications as we will support you in gaining these.
• You will have a general knowledge of IT skills.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Main responsibilities:

• Plan and organise the delivery of care and support by your team, ensuring that there are up-to-date person-centred needs assessments, support plans and risk assessments in place that are regularly reviewed; incidents, complaints, accidents and near-misses are appropriately recorded, and there are adequate records and rotas in place to evidence the provision of support and care in accordance with contractual and regulatory expectations.
• Ensure the people you support receive care and support in accordance with their person-centred needs assessments, support plans and risk assessments to foster their wellbeing and development and fulfil their potential for independence, choice, inclusion and control.
• Encourage and support people to maintain a clean, tidy, welcoming living environment.
• Support people to use appropriate laundry equipment enabling them to do their laundry and look after their clothing so they have suitable and clean clothing to wear.
• Plan, shop and prepare healthy and wholesome meals alongside the people you support, considering their choices and wishes.
• Support people to maintain health and well-being by assisting them to arrange and attend medical appointments.
• Support and encourage those you support to maintain an active and supportive social life considering individual choices and wishes
• Ensure the people supported receive their housing related support by enabling them to look after their finances (developing appropriate budgeting and financial training including support to access benefits and maintain them and assist them to understand and maintain their tenancy) and assisting people to access services from the landlord including to access maintenance services and reporting non-functioning safety and security measures.
• Assist people with personal care, where the appropriate registration is in place, or arrange where required (e.g. bathing, hair washing etc).
• Liaise professionally with the parents of those you support, social workers and others to make sure that the network of support around is functioning effectively.
• Support, supervise and direct support workers to provide a high quality of care and support, making sure they complete their induction and this is recorded, have individual learning plans that are regularly reviewed and updated, are supervised regularly and supervision records kept, and conduct and record their annual review.
• Work within the organisations’ policies and procedures and actively promote the equality, diversity and the rights of the people we support.
• Undertake such other tasks as required by the Service Manager to help develop and maintain the high quality of service required.
• Undertake personal and professional development to develop an understanding of our philosophy and values and how these inform and guide practice in the key responsibilities of the role.
• Supervise the activity of any staff or contractors working in or around the properties (e.g. cleaners, maintenance men, gardeners, cooks etc).
• Supervise any local volunteers ensuring they are able to make a meaningful contribution appropriate for their level of understanding and qualifications.