Team Leader Residential

Team Leader Residential

Salary: £31,000 per annum plus £50 per sleep-in allowance

Location: Wrexham

Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full-time – 37 hours per week (combination of 9-5 shifts, as well as rota’d shifts including evening and weekends)

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

As a Team Leader Residential, you’ll will provide an environment where the young people we support, will receive positive experiences of reliable, consistent parenting through providing specific and structured care, with very clear consistent boundaries.

You will support the Registered Manager and other Team Leader in the day to day running of the service and deputise in their absence, whilst working as part of a multi-disciplinary team ensuring that the children and young people, we support develop to reach their full potential.

At the same time, we will provide specialist learning, training, and Supervision to speed your professional development – alongside a competitive rewards package.

About the service

Tan y Dre Residential Services is a 4-bed therapeutic residential home, where we provide medium to long term care for young people aged 9-18 years old with complex needs and challenging behaviours. The aim of this role is to support them with their transition in to safe and happy adults.

Our children receive a bespoke intervention tailored to their individual needs supported by a team of staff who are fully committed to understating and meeting the child's needs and reduces the identified barriers.

Our therapeutic model will provide an environment where they will receive positive experiences of reliable, consistent parenting through providing specific and structured care, with very clear consistent boundaries.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Providing direct line management to a team of residential staff to deliver high standards of care.
• Supporting Young People to achieve positive outcomes.
• Preparing for and participating in Multi-Disciplinary Team meetings
• Being an advocate for the wellbeing of the young people.
• Leading and assessing staff, carrying out supervisions, appraisals and risk assessments.

Let's talk about you

If you have experience as a Team Leader Residential and you’re passionate about creating brighter futures, this could be the perfect role for you.

• A L3 Social Care Diploma is essential, and L4 Leadership and Management Qualification is desirable.
• Experience of a senior role in a children's home, residential short breaks or children's services.
• Experience of supporting staff through QCF, AWIF and Induction.
• A sound awareness of the RISCA (Wales) Act 2016, Social Services (Wales) Act 2014 and key H&S Legislation.
• Flexibility to work shifts and participate in the on-call rota.

Good to know

As a non-profit organisation, we are committed to the recent update from the Welsh Government in relation to ‘eliminating private profit from the care of children looked after’.

“80% of care homes in Wales are run by the private sector. Our aim is to ensure that public money invested in the care of children looked after does not profit individuals or corporate entities, but is wholly spent on children’s services to deliver better experiences and outcomes for children and young people, supporting service development and improvement and further professional development for staff.”

By 2027, they aim to have the care of children who are looked after in Wales, to be provided by the public Sector and charitable or non-profile organisations.

For more information, please visit their website https://www.gov.wales/removing-profit-care-looked-after-children.

Contact: Scott Jones at [email protected] quoting reference 11579. We'll be happy to give you any support you require.