Job Description
Go with your Heart at Making Space
Making Space is an award winning and values based national charity, we always aim high and our vision is to put Wellbeing at the Heart of Health & Social Care. At Making Space, our focus is upon building relationships, connecting communities and providing quality care as unique as the people we support.
We are looking for a dynamic Team Leader to take on the role of leading and developing our new advice, information and support service for Carers in Calderdale. You will lead the Carer Support Worker team in delivering outcome-focussed support for carers, with a key focus on introducing new service features relating to peer support.
Who we are looking for:
Kind Hearts – caring and compassionate, we do not judge and always act with kindness
Tailor Making – we take the lead from the people we support, we are skilled and work together
Dreaming Big – we always find a way, we are ambitious and always prepared to try
Having Courage – we do the right thing, we speak up and always prepared to learn
Being Ready – we face change positively; we build trusting relationships and never stop improving
The Role:
Reporting into our Regional Head of Operations, you will be responsible for the day-to-day management and delivery of this carer service, including managing a team of staff, contract monitoring and compliance, networking and budgetary management.
You will need to have previous experience of supervising staff, will be qualified to level 3 in Health and Social care (or equivalent) and will be qualified to level 5 in Leadership and Management (or equivalent /willing to work towards). In-depth knowledge of carer needs and experience of supporting adult carers is essential.
Beyond your qualifications and experience, we are looking for candidates who share our company values, and who truly want to make a positive impact on the lives of carers.
Our Rewards:
We offer a range of rewards including:
- Competitive pay rates
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Buy and sell up to 2 weeks additional leave
- Occupational Sick pay scheme
- Company pension
- Free vocational qualifications level 3 and 5
- Access to quality training and development
- Career pathway opportunities
- Lifestyle discounts through Love 2 Shop
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
Forward your CV to Recruitment@makingspace.co.uk quoting job requisition number: R02226
At Making Space we care about people. We embrace the diversity of our people and celebrate our shared ambition of making a difference to people’s lives. Our service users and their families are at the heart of everything that we do.
At Making Space we have a strong workforce that every day, continue to play their part in supporting our charity and are always celebrating our shared ambition of making a difference to people’s lives. The team at Making Space are dedicated, skilled and most importantly, friendly to others.
We aim to work in true and equal partnership with our service users, across all levels of the organisation.
Employee learning and development is really important to us as an organisation. If you were to join the Making Space team, we can ensure you that we will help you with all the training that you need. As an organisation we can help you develop the skills and knowledge to go further in your career with our extensive learning and development programme. On the job coaching, mentoring, team briefings, action learning sets and peer to peer coaching are just some alternative methods for our employees to consider when learning.
Meet Honor – one of our Team Leaders working in Derby
And learn about her career in care specialising in Dementia.
And Toni – Involvement Co-ordinator in Liverpool
And discover her career in care supporting vulnerable and isolated people.