Job Description
Posted Friday 24 January 2025 at 01:00
Leeds (Osman House)
Salary: Up to £15.37 per hour
Hours: 35 hours per week
Why Join Us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units, and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse, and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
About the Service
This role is based at Osman House, a 16-bed unit in Scholes, Leeds which provides rehabilitation to people with an acquired brain injury. It is a unique community where the people we support can address their cognitive, behavioural, physical, and emotional difficulties.
The Role:
As a Team Leader your main purpose will be to contribute and have responsibility for providing quality social and vocational support services for the people we support. You will lead, supervise and develop a team of support workers to ensure the needs of those we support are met according to their individual support plan in line with company policy and procedures and regulatory standards.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Establish and maintain professional relationships with stakeholders to contribute to the positive reputation of the company.
* Provide line management to a designated team of staff within a specified group at a location or group of locations within the allocated division.
* Undertake any reasonable traveling requirements to fulfil the tasks and responsibilities of the role, including supporting other locations within the Division as required.
* Set and communicate high standards of care and professional conduct within the team supervised.
* Lead and support compliance with Brainkind quality audits.
* Support health and safety duties as appropriate.
* Contribute information for the accurate notification of incidents/accidents/safeguarding as appropriate.
* Represent Brainkind at meetings and seminars and any other external events, where appropriate.
* Monitor and be responsible for the day-to-day spending at the location, including Trust and service user monies.
* Empower staff and service users to maintain a homely environment.
* Plan and organise staff rotas to include annual leave, training, and an appropriate skills mix, ensuring that the staff rota complements service user needs and individual programmes and meets contractual obligations to commissioners.
* Ensure Administration of Medication is effectively managed, audited, ordered, and stored in line with individual service user requirements and Brainkind Policy and Procedures.
* Contribute to the recruitment, selection, and induction of support staff.
* Ensure the key worker system is in place and tailored to each individual service user.
* Liaise with service users and maintain and develop their network of contacts including family, friends, and anyone else within the service users’ circle of support as requested.
Requirement:
* NVQ / QCF level 3 HSC or willingness to work towards within 12 months.
Skills/Experience required:
* Previous experience of working within a care/support environment.
* Knowledge of current relevant legislation relating to care standards, health and safety, and food hygiene.
* Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
* Demonstrate ability to be flexible and adaptable in approach, prioritising, planning, and organising the workload.
Benefits include:
* A competitive rate of Up to £15.37 per hour.
* 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays.
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
* Excellent training and support.
* Group life assurance.
* Company Pension.
* Long service and staff awards.
* Free parking.
* Nationwide employee staff discounts including eating out and shopping.
* Blue Light Card: provides those in the NHS, emergency services, social care sector, and armed forces with discounts online and in-store.
If this position sounds of interest to you, apply today by clicking Apply Now button.
Please note: we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled; therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible.
*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks.*
Brainkind is a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Brainkind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It’s a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.
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