Team Leader
Horsham
Salary: Up to £14.77 per hour plus £1 per hour location allowance
Hours: 36.5 hours per week
Kerwin Court delivers specialist neuro rehabilitation to adults with an acquired brain injury in a residential setting just outside of Broadbridge Heath. You will be working with a team of rehabilitation support workers alongside a multi-disciplinary team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists and speech and language therapists.
We are a passionate and committed team, delivering a high standard of care and rehabilitation. Our Rehabilitation Support Workers and Clinical Team thrive on working together to enable our service users to be as independent as possible and achieve their rehabilitation goals to include supporting our residents to safely access the community.

ABOUT US:

Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly enthusiastic about the jobs they do – you will find a dedicated team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
Shinewater Court is located in Eastbourne and offers accommodation and support to adults with a range of disabilities including cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, spina bifida and disabilities resulting from accidents or stroke.

MAIN PURPOSE

• To contribute to and have responsibility for providing quality social and vocational support services for service users within a specified group at a specified location or group of locations.
• To lead, supervise and develop a team of support workers to ensure the needs of the service users are met according to their individual support plan in line with company policy and procedures and regulatory standards.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Team Leader is expected to be fully competent in all aspects of the Support Worker.

• Establish and maintain professional relationships with stakeholders to compliment and contribute to the positive reputation of the company.
• To provide line management to a designated team of staff within a specified group at a location or group of locations within the allocated division.
• To undertake any reasonable traveling requirements to fulfil the tasks and responsibilities of the role. This may include supporting other locations within the Division as required.
• To set and communicate high standards of care and professional conduct within the team supervised.
• To lead and support compliance with Brainkind quality audits.
• To lead and support in health and safety duties as appropriate.
• To contribute information for the accurate notification of incidents/accidents/safeguarding as appropriate.
• Represent Brainkind at meetings and seminars and any other external events, where appropriate.
• Contributing to effective liaison with stakeholders and external agencies with local authorities, families, advocates, GPs, local safeguarding teams, other DT departments and professionals within the realms of Health and Social Care that have an impact on service provision in consultation with senior colleagues.
• To monitor and be responsible for the day-to-day spending at the location, to include Trust and service user monies.
• To empower staff and service users to maintain a homely environment.
• To plan and organise in advance staff rotas to include annual leave, training, and an appropriate skills mix, ensuring that the staff rota compliments service user needs and individual programmes and meets contractual obligations to commissioners. Where applicable to be supported by line management
• Ensure Administration of Medication is effectively managed, audited, ordered, and stored in line with individual service user requirement and Brainkind Policy and Procedures.
• To be responsible and manage in line with local procedures various resources e.g. Walkie Talkies, location keys, iPad, and mobile phones etc.
• To contribute to the recruitment, selection, and induction of support staff.
• To supervise, appraise, develop, and train within a designated group of support workers.
• To contribute attend, plan and participate in staff meetings as appropriate.
• To contribute to, monitoring and facilitation of training.

*Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. *

• All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks