Female Team Leader

We are seeking a highly committed, proactive and professional Team Leader to contribute to the operational management of a supported living service in Balham, Wandsworth. Endlesham Road is a service for 5 female clients who are supported by a long-standing staff team. Ensuring a great quality of life is of paramount importance and staff support clients with managing health conditions like Epilepsy and where needed with PEG assistance. The service is a short walk from Balham Station and accessible via buses.

As a Team Leader, you will assist the Locality Manager to ensure that the service is of the highest quality and meeting all CQC standards and contract requirements. You will ensure that the service works in a cohesive and coordinated manner and that clients experience fully integrated care, support, and housing. You will ensure that the care and support delivered is personalized and provided in accordance with agreed care plans, enabling clients to enjoy wellbeing, quality of life, and community connections. You will promote and reinforce a culture of responsive, person-centred practice and active support across the service, with relationships based on respect and unconditional positive regard.

Your work will be a mixture of doing shifts on the rota and management days, and you will be required to work across the entire week, including occasional evenings and weekends.

A minimum of one year’s managerial experience of supporting people with a learning disability and autism is essential. It is also pivotal to have strong values, emotional intelligence, and good problem-solving skills. Further, it is essential to demonstrate excellent assessment, support planning, and report writing skills.

Creative Support is a not-for-profit organisation which provides high quality, person-centred support to older people and adults with a learning disability and/or autism and people with physical disabilities and mental health needs. We are an Investor in People accredited employer with a diverse team of over 5,000 well-supported staff across England. Our services in London and Essex employ around 500 staff who support around 600 individuals with care and support needs.

If you have any enquiries about the role, please do not hesitate to contact Darius Riley, Area Manager on 07989 716 922 or email him at darius.riley@creativesupport.co.uk.

Applications for this role must be submitted via the Creative Support website using the above vacancy reference number. Gender is considered to be an occupational requirement – Equality Act 2010.

Full training is provided, as is the opportunity to work towards QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care. Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days leave, and company-paid enhanced DBS.

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization – Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold award.

We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK. This post will not be open to Sponsorship under the UKVI scheme.

Application Instructions: To apply, candidates must complete the online application form located on our company website via the listing for the above reference numbered role. We do not accept CVs as a method of application. Completed Application Forms must be submitted to our Head Office address or emailed to be considered for the vacancy. If you have not received a response to your application within 10 working days of the closing date, please accept this as notification of an unsuccessful application. Unsuccessful applicants must wait 6 months before reapplying. We do not provide outcomes for unsuccessful applications.

Recruitment Department, Creative Support Ltd, Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3TS