Living Waters Children’s Home Team Leader

Living Waters is recruiting an experienced Children’s Home Team Leader to help manage the day-to-day running of a safe and supportive residential home. The role includes leading staff on shift, supporting children and young people, maintaining high safeguarding and care standards, and helping each young person achieve positive outcomes.

Benefits

• Paid training
• Sick pay
• Free parking
• Company events
• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking

About Us

At Living Waters Services, we work in partnership with local authorities to support vulnerable children, young people, and adults through the provision of nurturing, person-centered environments tailored to individual needs. Our mission is to ensure that those we support feel a genuine sense of belonging—believing that a comfortable, safe home is fundamental to wellbeing and personal growth.

With the help of our qualified and compassionate team, we offer services that address complex emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs. We are committed to helping local authorities meet their responsibilities by delivering responsive care that reduces risk and promotes independence.

Key Duties

• Have a consistent presence in the home including sleep in / live in shifts if required
• Ensure the house is functioning according to the rules and regulations of Ofsted and the company policy.
• Hold meetings with staff and professionals
• Be a mentor and coach for support workers and encourage professional development
• Health and safety checks, fire risk assessments, Environmental assessments, support plan, and weekly reports.
• Build positive professional relationships with the children, young people or young adults in the home.
• Help shadow new staff members
• Do monthly supervisions for staff
• Ensure forms and paperwork of service users are up to date
• Always ensure compliance with the safeguarding policies
• Ensure duties are carried out promptly
• Be the point of communication between the management and staff.
• Oversee documentation on ClearCare, ensure they are all present and correct, if not, amend them to ensure that they are all accurate and accounted for
• Attend meetings with professionals
• Conduct weekly team meetings
• Ensure that your team knows what they are doing and always offer appropriate help when needed.
• Know your staff handbook in and out as it is the code of conduct, know what you are supposed to do and not to do.
• Contribute towards a healthy working culture of safety, openness and clear expectations.
• Create Rota’s for staff