Team Leader - Health and Social Care - West Wickham, Bromley

Looking for your next step in social care? Are you a confident problem solver, creative thinker with excellent communication skills?

We are seeking a Team Leader to join our supported living home in West Wickham. This is a full-time role and you would be required to work flexible across the shift rota. We require all candidates to be able drive and have a full UK driving licence for this role.

Your skills and experience working in care could be a great match for our team leader role. All you need is to be a role model for excellent support, who can inspire others and enable them to achieve their goals.

The support we provide is centred around each person’s values, preferences and needs this includes developing daily living skills, accessing a wider community, personal care and medication needs. In this role you’ll also lead and support a team of support workers.

You will:

• Proven previous experience of working with people with learning disability and autism
• Relevant social care qualification or working towards
• Previous management experience is desirable along with a managemnet qualification
• Experience developing skills within a team
• Be a confident problem solver and creative thinker with good communication skills
• Resilience to overcome challenges

Your responsibilities:

• To empower the people we support to live the lives they want to lead
• Provide great leadership and day-to-day supervision to a team of support workers.
• Assist the locality manager in the supervision, coaching and mentoring of the team.
• Provide direct care and support to the people we support and model best practice.
• Co-ordinate the daily provision of support and activities for people we support to ensure the delivery of a high quality, responsive and efficient service.
• You’ll have finances and other resources to manage, along with legal requirements and standards of care to meet.
• Benefits
• On-going training and career development including professional qualifications
• Contributory pension
• We cover the cost of DBS checks
• Rota's are planned in advance.
• Access to Wagestream where you can track your basic salary and additional hours earnings throughout the month and stream (access) a portion of those earnings before your monthly pay date. You can also access a range of financial support and advice, as well as save directly from your earnings.
• Shopping discounts including Blue Light card, EE perks and Costco membership
• Successfully 'recommend a friend' to join us and you'll receive a thank-you payment
• Access to wellbeing helplines.
• Health Cash Plan

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Brandon Trust work alongside people of different ability so they are able to create opportunity and feel empowered to live the life they want.

All team leaders work flexible shifts to provide a 24/7 service. Successful applicants for this role will require an enhanced DBS check.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applicants from all sections of the community.

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