Team Leader Residential

Role: Team Leader Residential Salary: Up to £32,700 per annum (Inc. on call allowance) Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full Time, 37 hours per week. Benefits: 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave. Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities. Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts. Development and Career Progression: Work towards gaining your Level 5 Diploma, fully funded, and supported by us! Clear pathways for progression into roles such as Service Co-ordinator, Home Manager or Area Manager. We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years. Find out more about Action for Children here: Action for Children and on X, LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better. A bit about the role: Summerfields is a six-bed residential home for Children and young people aged between 5 and 18 years old with complex additional needs. The home offers a place of laughter fun and new experiences where the young person can thrive, learn, and develop helping them to achieve a positive future. This is an exciting, challenging and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact. The successful applicant will have a real opportunity to work as part of a team, who will improve the outcomes of children and young people by providing safe, stable, and loving homes for them to live and thrive in. We will actively support you in your role and provide you with regular supervision / APR process and specialist training including a commitment to achieve Level 5, Leadership and Management qualification from our newly developed Professional Development Centre How you'll help to create brighter futures: As a Team leader your aim is to positively lead and support a team of workers to ensure that a safe and friendly environment is provided for the children and young people. You will work with the registered manager in the day to day running of the home and deputise in their absence. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team ensuring that the children and young people, we support develop to reach their full potential. We will actively support you in your role and provide you with regular supervision. Supporting Young People to achieve positive outcomes. Provide direct line management to a team of residential staff to deliver high standards of care. Leading shifts and supervising staff Link working with young people (managing paperwork and files). Developing care plans and identifying agreed outcomes. Responsible for the safeguarding of young people. Being an advocate for the wellbeing of the young people. Let's talk about you. In this role, you'll contribute to our vision of ensuring safe and happy childhoods. To achieve that real change to vulnerable children, young people and families, there'll be certain qualities that you will have. Experience of working with children or young people with complex needs within a residential setting. Level 3 QCF Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent) A positive and confident approach to engaging with children and young people, The ability to work effectively as part of a team. - IT literate, the ideal candidate must be confident in using a computer. Good to know. Application Process Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role. There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration. Talent Pool We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't. Contact: Sarah Manderfield or email us at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 12219 Diversity, equality, and inclusion At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children. Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles. Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family. Job Description See below for further information about working with us: Action for Children Employee Benefits AfC Commitment Statement Action for Children - Driven by Love Make a Difference - A Career in Residential Services