Children's Services Team Leader

Role: Team Leader Residential
Salary: Up to £31,100 (Depending on experience and qualifications) + £700 on call allowance
Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire
Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week.
Benefits:
Basic annual leave of 29 days PLUS bank holidays
Up to 5 more days leave for continuous service PLUS the option to buy another 5 days every year!
Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
Flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages.
Up to 7% employer pension contribution. Staff discount portal with your favourite brands.
Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.
Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
Development and Career Progression:
Work towards gaining your Level 5 Diploma, fully funded, and supported by us!
Clear pathways for progression into roles such as Service Co-ordinator, Home Manager or Area Manager.
Our Operational Director, Kate, began her career as a Play Worker. Have a look at her Career Progression blog attached.
We're offering a highly competitive rewards package, plus a comprehensive supervision and development programme to continue your professional development.
We are one of the UK's largest children's charities. One way we support young people is by offering nurturing environments in small residential homes, located in local communities. You could soon be a valued member of our team.
A bit about the role:
Summerfields is a six-bed residential home for Children and young people aged between 5 and 18 years old with complex additional needs. The home offers a place of laughter fun and new experiences where the young person can thrive, learn, and develop helping them to achieve a positive future.
This is an exciting, challenging and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact.
The successful applicant will have a real opportunity to work as part of a team, who will improve the outcomes of children and young people by providing safe, stable, and loving homes for them to live and thrive in.
We will actively support you in your role and provide you with regular supervision / APR process and specialist training including a commitment to achieve Level 5, Leadership and Management qualification from our newly developed Professional Development Centre
How you'll help to create brighter futures:
As a Team leader your aim is to positively lead and support a team of workers to ensure that a safe and friendly environment is provided for the children and young people. You will work with the registered manager in the day to day running of the home and deputise in their absence. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team ensuring that the children and young people, we support develop to reach their full potential. We will actively support you in your role and provide you with regular supervision.
Supporting Young People to achieve positive outcomes.
Provide direct line management to a team of residential staff to deliver high standards of care.
Leading shifts and supervising staff
Link working with young people (managing paperwork and files).
Developing care plans and identifying agreed outcomes.
Responsible for the safeguarding of young people.
Being an advocate for the wellbeing of the young people.
Let's talk about you.
In this role, you'll contribute to our vision of ensuring safe and happy childhoods. To achieve that real change to vulnerable children, young people and families, there'll be certain qualities that you will have.
Experience of working with children or young people with complex needs within a residential setting.
Level 3 QCF Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent)
A positive and confident approach to engaging with children and young people,
The ability to work effectively as part of a team. - IT literate, the ideal candidate must be confident in using a computer.