Care Team Leader

Care Team Leader

Service Name:  Beech Avenue

Location: Bourne, Lincs. PE10 9RR
Salary:  £22,607.00pa
Hours: 38 hours per week

Benefits:

• Extensive access and support to recognised qualifications including: NVQ in Health and Social Care and Care Certificate, plus many more.
• 6 weeks (28.0 days pro rata for hours worked) annual leave per annum.
• Employee benefit discount scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Become a Health and Social Care HERO!

Are you passionate about making a different and helping others?

Would you like to work in a role that put people at the heart of everything you do?

Then come join Ambient Support today!

Experienced and non-experienced applicants encourage!

Ambient Support is a registered UK charity with over 25 years’ experience in providing care and support services for older people, people with a mental health need and people with a learning disability. Our Supported Living services enable people to live as independently as possible in a home of their own. This usually means a small group of people sharing a house with their own secure tenancy, with care and support tailored to meet their individual needs.

Our Team Leader needs:

• Experience of supporting adults in a care setting or in the community
• An awareness and understanding of Learning Disabilities
• Good communication skills, patience and flexibility
• An understanding of safeguarding and person-centred support
• A flexible working patterns
• An NVQ L3 in Health & Social Care, or relevant qualification 
• Have supervisory/management experience 
• Be highly motivated and be able to work on their own initiative
• Be well organised 
• Have a passion and enthusiasm for delivering quality services *to vulnerable people
• A driving license & access to your own vehicle would be a bonus

Our Team Leader’s duties will be:

• To ensure that each individual maintains the lifestyle of their choice by ensuring each person has a person-centred plan which is continually reviewed.
• To ensure that each individual has the means to express their needs and wishes and that methods of communication are clearly recorded and shared with all members of the team.
• To ensure that the best interests of each person we support are at the centre of any    decisions made about their life, and to work in partnership with them, their advocates, family, friends and significant others.

In order to protect both our staff and the people we support, unless there are wholly exceptional reasons (which we will consider on an individual basis), it is a requirement that all new employees have a Covid-19 vaccination prior to commencing with Ambient Support, and that they continue to receive Covid-19 vaccinations as required and in accordance with public health guidance throughout their employment with us.

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