Team Leader
Ashford, Kent
Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw)
Salary £25,500 per annum, depending on skills and experience
Plus, On Call and Sleep-In Enhancements
Delivering support with a difference. That’s when it hits home.
We have a rewarding opportunity for you to join one of our amazing Transforming Care teams in Ashford. You'll support one of our lovely twins who are going to be living in a spacious bungalow, helping them live fulfilling lives in their own home and within the local community.
You’ll manage a small team of frontline Support Workers (known by us as Positive Behavioural Support Workers) in providing person-centred and strengths-based support. As our team and safeguarding lead, you’ll use your experience and brilliant skills in effectively motivating and directing colleagues. You’ll also oversee complex support, working with our customer displaying any behaviours of concern and any requirement for personal care.
We’re offering
- 34 days annual leave (including bank holidays and a me day to take off for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39 days. You can also buy 5 more. You can have time off for volunteering too.
- Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
- Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
- We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
- Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
- Explore our benefits in detail on our website.
About you
- You’ll have an excellent working knowledge and experience in the Care and Support sector. It’s important that you have the following:
- Experience in positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
- Experience in creating new, person-centred support plans and supporting others working to existing support plans.
- Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care or equivalent experience working in health or social care.
- Good understanding of CQC regulations, relevant legislation or working within a CQC regulated environment.
- Full clean UK driving Licence - Essential
Where and when you’ll work
We provide 24/7 support to A and S. You need to be aware that you’ll need to be covering days into evenings, waking nights, weekends and bank holidays. We need you to be flexible to meet their support needs, but we will be flexible too, to find and agree a working pattern that suits all our needs.
You’ll be joining Home Groups wider transforming care teams within Kent, and you will be based in Ashford. We also have bases in Gravesend, Canterbury, Broadstairs, Snodland and Rainham, so you may be required to support our other customers on occasion when there is a requirement.
When you join, you’ll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you don’t have a transferrable one.
About our customers
This will be the first home A and S have had since leaving school. You will be working in the same property as both twins; however, you'll only be required to support one alongside your team. Due to being nonverbal, both will need additional support to communicate their needs.
A has complex needs, autism and learning disabilities and really enjoys the time to chill. He loves watching animated films, Pixar being his favourite. If you like a good sing song, you'll get on like a house on fire as A loves to sing whilst banging out tunes on the keyboard, and he loves for everyone to join in the fun. If you’re all about the healthy diet this is great too, as A is mostly vegetarian and enjoys a healthy lifestyle.
S is very energetic and loves to go for long beach walks as well as walks in the woods and countryside, and if you like to bake then this will go down a treat too. He too likes to sing and play games and chill out watching animated films, but what he loves more is having his team interact with him while he’s doing all of his favourite things.
Be yourself at Home
Home Group is committed to tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but for our colleagues too! We’re super proud of our internal Diversity Networks and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) which support colleagues from different backgrounds to be their true selves. We recognise and celebrate our differences, together we make Home Group a great place to work!
More about this job
If you’re not reading this advert on our career’s pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You can download the Positive Behaviour Support Team Leader Job Description, and find out more about Home Group. We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards!
Applying for this job
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