The job role of a Team Leader Support Worker at Elysium Healthcare involves providing care and support to individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and mental health conditions. The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to support service users in their care pathway, ensuring they lead a full and valued life while enabling them to live more independently.
Main duties of the job
As a Team Leader Support Worker, you will be responsible for leading an inclusive and supportive team to provide care and support to individuals with learning disabilities, autism, and mental health conditions. You will use your excellent communication skills and experience in the field of learning disability and autism to support service users through their care pathway. The role can be challenging at times, but it is highly rewarding to see the individuals in your care improve and progress. You will be working 37.5 hours per week, including weekends, days, and nights.
About us
Elysium Healthcare is an established and stable company with over 8,000 employees. It is part of Ramsay Health Care, a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people. Elysium Healthcare provides a range of services across England and Wales, covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, offering opportunities for growth and development.
Job responsibilities
Join Nursery Road as a Team Leader and provide care for people with severe learning disabilities, Autism, and behaviours that may be seen as challenging; where you’ll support and encourage service users to lead a full and valued life, enabling them to live more independently.
You’ll be great with people – a real ‘people person’, able to communicate effectively – explaining yourself clearly in the right tone to suit the situation and understanding others (behaviours and expressions, as well as vocal). Having a good sense of humour and resilience, and a willingness to help residents with their personal hygiene are also important.
What you will be doing You will join an inclusive, supportive team that works well together to provide care to people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions.
Working alongside a multidisciplinary team, you will use your excellent communication skills and experience as a Team Leader with a background in Learning Disability and Autism to provide care and support to people through their care pathway. It can be quite a challenging environment at times, so a positive attitude, compassion, resilience, and vigilance are important. But it is hugely rewarding to see people improve because of you; being able to do something today that they couldn’t do last week. You will be working 37.5 hours a week, including weekends, days, and nights.
As a Team Leader you will have:
* Ideally have or be working towards NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care
* Hold a valid UK driving licence (preferred to assist with community visits)
* Have strong empathy and a caring and compassionate nature
* Be willing to support residents with personal hygiene
* Have excellent people and communication skills, and a good sense of humour
* Deal with challenging behaviours
* Have a positive and professional approach
* Be reliable, flexible, hard-working, and honest
* Be local or within commutable distance
You must live in the UK and have the Right to Work in the UK full time. 20-hour Student and Skilled Worker Visas cannot be accepted.
Where you will be working:
Location: 187 Nursery Rd, Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 6LX. You will be working at Nursery Road, a service which provides support for people who may be living with moderate learning disabilities with associated health needs, autism, and behaviours.
What you will get:
* Annual salary of £25,350
* The equivalent of 33 days annual leave – plus your birthday off!
* Free meals and parking in local streets.
* Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance
* Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals
* Pension contribution to secure your future
* Life Assurance for added peace of mind
* Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time
There is also a range of other benefits including retail discounts, special offers, and much more.
About your next employer:
You will be working for an established, stable, and agile company with over 8,000 employees and a unique approach to the delivery of care. With a network of over 90 services across England and Wales covering Mental Health, Neurological, Learning Disabilities & Autism, Children & Education, there is opportunity for you to grow and move.
Elysium Healthcare is part of Ramsay Health Care with a global network that extends across 10 countries and employs over 86,000 people globally.
Elysium Healthcare follows safer recruitment of staff for all appointments and is a Disability Confident employer, committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. It is a requirement that all staff understand it is each person’s individual responsibility to promote and safeguard the welfare of service users. All candidates will be subject to a DBS disclosure.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Ideally, you will have or be working towards an NVQ 3 in Health & Social Care. You should also hold a valid UK driving license (preferred to assist with community visits). Additionally, you must demonstrate strong empathy, a caring and compassionate nature, and the willingness to support residents with personal hygiene. Excellent people and communication skills, as well as the ability to deal with challenging behaviors, are essential.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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