About the role
Huntingdon Day Services is a group of 3 day centres for Adults with a Learning Disabilities in and around the Huntingdon area. Huntingdon Day Centre is the main service based near Huntingdon town centre with CATS & Shortsands being satellite day services in St Ives and St Neots.
The role of Team Leader is to have day to day responsibly for the running of the centres to ensure the services offer high quality of activities and opportunities for those people that attend. Working to enable adults with a disability to have the skills to live as independently as possible and to empower them to make choices for themselves in their day to day lives.
The centre has its own employability projects as we endeavour to provide work based opportunities for the adults that use the service.
What will you be doing?
You will report to the Operations Manager and support with the service delivery by providing supervision and oversight of the staff teams including Senior Support Workers and Employability Co-ordinators.
The role will include staff supervision and 1:1 meetings and appraisals, managing rotas and provision of staff, completing HR processes, and ensuring training is booked and completed and ensuring team meetings are conducted regularly.
You will also be involved in driving up standards of care and will complete quality assurance processes. The role will be the responsible person for Safeguarding and Health & Safety in the service.
The role will require you to lead staff to support those who have behaviours that challenge and train as a PROACT SCIPr instructor.
You will be using IT to update documents such as support plans, risk assessments and will have excellent knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and assessments of capacity.
This post is Monday- Friday 8:50- 16:00 (17:10 on a Wednesday)
You will be completing a comprehensive training program and benefit from excellent career development opportunities as well as being part of a supportive team committed to delivering an excellent service for adults with disabilities.
About you
You will need to have the ability to plan and prioritise work in order to meet strict deadlines in a very busy environment at multiple sites
Be able to present information clearly and concisely, verbally and in writing to diverse groups of people and have excellent IT skills.
You will have experience of providing opportunities to adults with a learning disabilities and an understanding of the principles of supporting and empowering individuals.
Also, you will require an ability to demonstrate understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion, Mental Capacity Act as well as the need for safety and confidentiality in the role.
You will need to have experience in managing a staff team and associated tasks including building a great team culture and supporting staff wellbeing.
For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Karen Hubbard- Operations Manager - 07500108499 - Karen.Hubbard@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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