Team Leader

Are you a trailblazer in healthcare, driven by the desire to make a tangible impact on people’s lives?

Join us as a Team Leader across Brierley Hill, Dudley, where you’ll oversee a range of services, from individualised personal budgets to complex healthcare needs. We cater to adults with learning disabilities, mental health issues, autism, and those requiring specialised care needs like PEG feeding and support for dysphagia, to service users that need minimum support to maintain their independence.

Distinctive Features of This Position:

• Variety of Service Users: The role encompasses a broad spectrum of responsibilities, ranging from overseeing independent living arrangements to managing complex healthcare needs, ensuring a consistently engaging work environment.
• Collegial Support Network: You will have the opportunity to join an esteemed network of seasoned regional managers who provide invaluable mentorship and peer support.
• Operational Independence: The position requires an individual capable of autonomous decision-making, efficient task management, and critical problem-solving.

Key Responsibilities:

• Holistic Management: Oversee various services across Dudley, ensuring top-notch, person-centred care.
• Team Leadership: Inspire and manage a dedicated team to deliver exceptional support.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure compliance with CQC regulations and focus on continuous improvement.
• Health & Wellbeing: Prioritise the physical and emotional health of service users, from basic to complex needs.

You will need to have experience of working in the field of learning disabilities, mental health and autism, and have experience of leading and managing teams.

Creative Support are invested in providing our employees with career opportunities, not just a job. Our hard-working, committed workforce is provided with a clear path for development and the opportunity to have a voice in our organisation.

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.

Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.

We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.

Application Instructions:

In order to apply, please read the job description and then complete the online application form using the links above.

You can also download a copy of our application form using the links above. Completed Application Forms must be submitted to our Head Office address (below) or emailed to recruitment@creativesupport.co.uk to be considered for the vacancy. If you have not received a response to your application within 10 working days of the closing date please accept this as notification of an unsuccessful application. Unsuccessful applicants must wait 6 months before reapplying.

If you require any advice on completing your application form, please call us on 0161 236 0829.

Recruitment Department, Creative Support Ltd, Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3TS