Team Leader - Children's Home

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                            Team Leader - Children's Home
• Job Location:                     Gloucester 
• Salary:                               £34,834 - £38,223 per annum
• Hours per Week:               37.00 
• Contract Type:                   Permanent 
• Closing Date:                     08/09/2024 
• Job Requisition Number:   9421 
• This post is open to job share 

Having successfully recruited to the Registered Manager and Deputy Manager positions for our first two children’s homes, Gloucestershire is making headway in realising our vision to establish a diverse range of local children’s homes. This is an exciting programme and part of a much wider strategy which aims to support our most vulnerable children in achieving timely permanence. Our first two homes will open early autumn and we are now looking to recruit 6 Team Leaders who, along with the Deputy Managers, will make up the management team within the homes.

To see more information on the upcoming of our new Children's homes, click here.

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £34,834 - £38,223 per annum subject to experience
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy
   

Right Child, Right Support, Right Time, Every Time

Gloucestershire’s vision is ‘Working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help.'  Implementation of our ambitious improvement and transformation plans are creating the optimum conditions within which our staff can make a real difference and improve outcomes for children. The investment we’ve committed into our in-house residential strategy demonstrates our commitment to getting this right for our children and young people.

About us

Within our first phase we are opening one children’s home which caters for younger children who need a period of intense support, with a view to enabling them to return to a family setting, whether that be foster care or back home. In addition, we recognise some young people need longer term residential care so, as part of our Sufficiency Strategy, our second home aims to provide this provision, with semi-independent facilities on site and integral to the offer.

All our homes will offer a service to those children and young people for whom residential care is a placement of choice and assessed to be the most appropriate resource to enable them to fulfil their potential. We’re committed to working with our statutory partners as part of a trauma-informed, integrated approach which focuses holistically on what needs to change in order to achieve timely permanence.

About you

If you are passionate about delivering stable homes built on love and care deeply about supporting our most vulnerable children and young people, then you’ll be interested in helping move our residential strategy forward from concept to delivery. You will work alongside the Registered Manager to shape the development of our first two children’s homes, through registration with Ofsted, and beyond.

If you have relevant experience of working as a Residential Practitioner in a children’s home and are committed to improving outcomes for children and young people in care, Gloucestershire would like to hear from you. There are lots of opportunities for you to join a workforce with great training and career development, supported by our highly regarded Social Work Academy.

 About the role

As a Team Leader, you will be required to lead shifts, as part of a rota system, when on duty and provide support and guidance to the front-line practitioners on a day-to-day basis and through formal line management responsibilities. You will also be required to carry out sleeping-in duties, for which an additional allowance will be paid. You will work alongside senior managers to ensure risk assessments and related management plans are implemented effectively, reviewed regularly, and updated as required.

You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the well-being of children and young people in your care by working directly with them. You will also work alongside their families, ensuring effective lines of communication. The role will also see you taking responsibilities as a keyworker and attending meetings and reviews as required.

As well as your experience of working in children’s homes, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent)
• Evidence of continued professional development.
• A full driving licence and willingness to drive.
• DBS clearance

Interviews will be scheduled as candidates are shortlisted, ensuring sufficient notice is provided for preparation.

For an informal chat about this role, please call Shanti Eaves on 07768 040265

Alternatively, please email ChildrenHomeRecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk, we would love to hear from you.

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable amount of applications or fill the vacancy/vacancies.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:

Team Leader - Children's Homes Job Profile

This position is subject to a DBS check. 

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.