Female Care Team Leader

Rosie, born in 1990, lives independently in her own home. She has a good sense of humour and is lovely to be around. Her Mum is very important to her, along with animals and coffee! A couple of times a year, she competes in Inclusive Ice Skating competitions. She has a great support team around her of people she likes and generally gets on well with most people. She needs help to motivate herself to do some activities. Rosie likes to be treated like an adult and has a weekly planner to help her keep up with what she has to do. She enjoys clothes shopping (but not food shopping) and going out for coffee. She responds well to being given one instruction at any one time. Resulting from a head injury, Rosie has epilepsy, learning difficulties and a visual impairment. She requires one to one care for all of her personal, domestic and social needs, in addition to supervision for her epilepsy.

The central role of the Team Leader is to assist Rosie to live a full and active life, enabling her to be as independent as possible and meet her potential, and managing rotas to ensure her support is provided. The Team Leader has a general role in promoting Rosie's learning, care and independence in the home and community.

• Maintain and manage a team of 1:1 24/7 support workers, including rotas, cover arrangements, inductions, appraisals, supervisions and identifying training needs.
• Ensure the care given is of high quality, safe and effective.
• Carry out on-call duties.
• Assist Rosie in her own home with everyday life-skills, domestic chores, equipment maintenance, laundry and kitchen tasks.
• Support Rosie at a City Farm, caring for animals, and engage her in fitness and healthy activities.
• Collaborate with Rosie's Case Manager to provide the best opportunity for her to fulfil her potential.
• Offer support to Rosie on holiday as required.

• Essential: Supporting adults in their own home with seizures, learning difficulties and ABI.
• Essential: Driver required; a car with business insurance is needed.
• Desirable: Experience working with adults with ABI and LD.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.
• Satisfactory references, including the last employer.
• An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate (a conviction will not necessarily prevent you from being employed).

118 hours per 4-week period split as follows: 30 hours of Team Leader duties (average 7.5 hours a week) and up to 88 hours of support worker shifts per 4-week period. Some shifts may include weekend work.

Pay: £18.48-£19.63 per hour, dependent on experience. Sleeping nights are paid at National Living Wage/National Living Wage + £1 per hour.

Start Date: ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks). Interviews will happen on a rolling basis. This advert will close when sufficient applications have been received.

• On-going training & support provided.
• 5.6 weeks annual leave pro rata.
• Pension (subject to qualifying status).
• Sick leave entitlement.
• Free DBS check.
• Induction.
• Relevant training opportunities.
• Regular clinical supervision/review meetings.
• On-going support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department.

ILS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our Clients within the activities we undertake, and ILS expects all our Clients' employees and workers to share this commitment. The suitability of all prospective employees or workers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, marriage and civil partnerships and religion and belief. Where a specific gender is stated as essential, gender is considered to be a genuine occupational requirement in accordance with paragraph 1, of the schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 for a female or male worker to work with our client.