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Job description

Purpose of a Team Lead. To supervise and deploy staff within their allocated team, ensuring the provision of care, personal support, daily living tasks and activities with customers either within their own home, day centres or in residential care settings. To assist the Service Manager, Deputy Manager and other colleagues to support individual customers to attain their full potential and maximise the options available, encouraging choice, participation and motivation.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the day-to-day management of a team ensuring that it maintains a high standard of professional support in line with all relevant regulations, policies and procedures.
• To ensure the effective operation of the staff key worker system.
• To organise and manage the rostering process so that sufficient staff are provided at all times in accordance with the requirements of customers.
• To provide practical induction training to new staff and promote on-going staff development through personal reviews, regular supervisions, annual appraisal, competency assessments and team meetings.
• To work in partnership with customers, encouraging choice, participation, motivation and risk taking.
• To ensure any incidents or events that may have an impact on the customer’s PCP are reported and recorded, liaising with the immediate supervisor (and/or any other relevant staff) as appropriate.
• To work closely with the respective manager and any respective health care professionals in the development of person-centred plans (PCPs) and ensure that customers’ reviews are carried out within prescribed timetables.
• To be responsible for the accurate monitoring and recording of all customers documentation in respect of individual service plans, reviewing and escalating as required.
• To contribute to the on-going assessment of customers (including assessment of new customers), observing any deterioration in their health and well-being and ensuring this is managed and recorded in an appropriate way.
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Skills and Qualifications

Essential Skills

• QCF Level 3 or above in health and social care or working towards and ability to complete within 6 months.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in a health and social care setting.

Desirable Skills

• Minimum 6 months experience in health and social care supervising a team.

Further Information

Location: Taylor-Cheshire House. To Apply, please click on the given link before the closing date. Please note: All candidates applying for a role with Threshold must already have the legal right to work in the UK without sponsorship. As Threshold cannot offer visa sponsorship. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we feel we have received suitable number of applications.