Team Leader in Folkestone, Kent

Purpose of the Job: Managing and leading a team of staff in Registered Care Centre, including the allocation of tasks to meet the needs of individual people we support and their carers. Provide short stay and residential services. Generally, assist the Deputy Manager and Registered Manager to provide high quality care and maintain a customer friendly service.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Manage and lead a team of staff, ensuring they are deployed on the 24-hour Rota to meet the individual needs of people we support of the Registered Care Centre and the specification contained in the Service Level Agreement and the standards set by the Regulator.
• Supervise and assist service users with personal care to ensure the provision of physical and emotional care, enabling independence where possible in all aspects of individual rehabilitative care plans whilst maintaining client privacy and dignity.
• Take specific responsibility for people we support to assess and support them with their individualised plan of care and ensuring goals are met.
• Strengthen and develop links with colleagues and partners to benefit people we support and their families.
• Provide supervision to a team of staff to ensure that the requirements of the role expectations, action plans and professional standards are maintained.
• Assist in inductions, and development of staff.
• Promote a person-centred culture.
• Support the service to be cost-effective.
• The ability to use information to understand outcomes for the people we support, variations in services and challenge why we do things. Embrace change with an open mind set and continually seek new ways of working.
• Support the Registered Manager to maintain business continuity plans and activate if necessary.
• Oversee the security and safety of the service.
• Report any safeguarding issues that arise in line with the policy and notify the regulator in line with current regulations.
• Support with emergency admissions/discharges.
• Follow and support the medication policy to ensure the safe administration of medication.
• Ensure risk assessments are maintained and reviewed and audits are completed and accurately recorded.
• Attend regular one to one meetings, team meetings and training courses. Ensure mandatory training is in date, at all times.
• Travel across a wide geographical area in a timely and flexible manner, in order to attend training courses.
• Complete identified audits provided by the deputy managers and registered managers and provide outcomes and actions.

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