Action for Children
Team Leader Residential
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Salary: £30,000 per annum
Location: Glasgow
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
Vulnerable children in the UK need your help
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK. Last year, we helped more than 687,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Team Leader to join our new residential service at Stoneside (G43 1JF), providing high-quality residential care and support for a young person with learning disabilities and complex needs.
As a Team Leader, you will play a key role in leading and managing a dedicated team within the residential service, ensuring the delivery of safe, effective, and person-centred support. You will provide guidance, supervision, and leadership to staff, fostering a positive and nurturing environment where the young person can thrive and achieve their full potential.
We support a young person who may, at times, present behaviours that can be physically and emotionally challenging, alongside a range of complex needs. This means we are looking for someone who is emotionally resilient, able to remain calm under pressure, and committed to providing compassionate and consistent support when it is needed most.
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If you are looking for a role where you can lead a team, shape a new service, and make a genuine difference to a young person's life, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of a new service from the beginning, helping to shape and develop a high-quality home while making a lasting difference in a young person's life. Alongside supporting and developing your team, you will help ensure the young person receives support with daily activities, developing life skills, medication, personal care, and opportunities to build independence, confidence, and achieve positive outcomes.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
- Having responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service in accordance with national standards.
- Managing and leading a team of residential professionals and other staff as directed in the delivery of a 24 hour rota (including management of shifts) of care.
- Being responsible for the supervision, learning and development of the team.
- Focusing on the outcome-lead care of the children and young people staying at the service.
- Delivering services and leading by example to ensure that staff are supporting children and young people to achieve their full potential.
- Building and maintaining positive, professional working relationships by providing emotional and social support to children and young people who can display challenging emotional and social difficulties.
- Working with other agencies and within the community to assist the child / young person and their family.
Let's talk about you
Are you resilient and have a positive approach to change and challenge? We are looking for someone with a ‘can do’ attitude to join our team. Ideally you will have:
- Demonstrable experience of working in a care setting and developing positive relationships through trust
- Application of a range of techniques to co-ordinate and communicate with service users and their families
- Demonstrate a solution focused approach to address problems, individually and in a team setting
- Demonstrate emotional resilience to respond to the challenging nature of the role
- Possess a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or recognised equivalent)
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Contact: Jessica Jarvis - email us at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13601
Please watch our beautiful Driven by Love video, that gives a wonderful and powerful insight, into the difference you can make to the young people and families we support by joining our Action for Children family - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70wuKL-KdaI
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.
[For Children Service roles only: Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.]
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