About Us
We are well well-known Healthcare group with reliable, dedicated, and professional staff within our services already! We care for adults aged 19 - 60 who have learning difficulties and Mental Health issues. At Rehability UK, we are offering permanent positions with guaranteed hours and flexible shift patterns, as well as Bank Worker contracts.
Rehability UK specializes in supporting adults with complex needs (including, but not limited to, Autistic Spectrum Condition, Learning Disability, and Mental Health) to live their best possible lives. We never stop striving to provide friendly, professional, and inspirational services that we’d want to experience ourselves!!
OUR SERVICE AND THE PEOPLE WE SUPPORT
We are looking for a Team Leader to join the team in our residential care home based in the Walsall area of West Midlands. Our residential care home supports ten individuals. The top part of the home consists of two self-contained flats for Supported Living Residents. The ground floor consists of 8 Residents with Learning disabilities and complex needs. The home has a sensory room, which combines a range of stimuli to help individuals develop and engage their senses. There is a spacious garden, which is used as part of activities for people we support. Service is managed by an experienced Registered manager and has consistent staff that have worked there for many years.
MAIN FUNCTION OF THE JOB
The main purpose of the role is to support the manager in the leadership of the teams whilst providing person-centered care and support to people we support in their own homes, enabling them to live a fulfilling life.
The service has been designed to be based on needs, offering choice and inclusivity. Our philosophy is that people are empowered as much as possible - this will include building upon their strengths. We recognize that each individual in distress is unique and the expert of his or her own experience.
Specific tasks of the role include, but are not limited to:
- Assist and devise person-centered care plans and review progress, liaising with families and professional agencies as necessary.
- Communicate with support workers to provide support, guidance, and information.
- Guide and lead Support Workers to develop and maintain high standards of care.
- Implement staff rotas ensuring that the service is adequately staffed at all times.
- To assist with medication and accurate recording of medication.
- Develop and maintain a professional relationship with people we support and help them to develop necessary life skills and satisfy needs.
- Participate in an on-call rota system and provide hands-on support when required.
- You will be required to cover shifts out of office hours and over the weekend as and if needed
- As a team leader, you will be required to work on the floor supporting our clients. It’s a full-time 36-hour post that requires you to spend 50% of your working time in the office supporting the service manager. Remaining hours you will be required to complete the floor supporting our staff and clients.
- Skills and Experience required:
- Ideally, you will have experience working and leading a team in a supported living environment however guidance and support from our experienced manager will be provided
- Personal care is required in all our locations so you will have experience providing personal care.
- Flexibility is required for this role
- BENEFITS In return for joining us, we can offer a range of benefits including:
- Opportunity to work towards your apprenticeship in health and social care
- Refer to a friend payment scheme which is a £250-500 bonus if working with us personally for over a 6-month period.
- Competitive rates of pay
- Opportunities to progress through our personalized career paths into more senior and management roles
- Free training to help develop and enhance your skills
- For our staff, we are now offering Perk Box- an employee experience app that comes with a lot of perks such as
- Discounts across 350 retail stores
- FREE prize draws to win £500 worth of White Stuff goods.
- FREE courses, counseling, legal & financial advice
- 1 free movie download a month.