Team Leader

  • Elephant Recruitment Group
  • Grantham, Lincolnshire
  • Jul 17, 2025
Full time Healthcare & Medical

Job Description

Location: Woolsthorpe
Salary: £28,500 to £31,100 DOE excluding sleeps (between £3,100 to £5200)

Join a home with strong roots and a therapeutic foundation.


We re recruiting for a Team Leader in Woolsthorpe, where a respected childcare provider is opening their next EBD home. You ll bring experience, compassion and leadership to a service designed for care that lasts.

About the Role:


• Support the Registered Manager and Deputy in running a therapeutic, child-centred home
• Act as a key worker, building strong, consistent relationships with young people
• Guide and mentor residential support workers in daily routines and care delivery
• Maintain high standards of safeguarding, recording and communication
• Play a key role in shift planning, documentation and reflective practice

What Makes This Exciting:


• Be part of a new home built on proven foundations
• Join a provider growing through outcomes, not numbers
• Work in a calm, well-resourced setting from day one
• Help embed a consistent, trauma-informed culture

About You:


• Minimum 1 year s experience in residential childcare
• Confident supporting children with EBD and SEMH needs
• Level 3 in Residential Childcare (or willing to work towards it)
• Calm, consistent, and dependable in a team setting
• Clear understanding of safeguarding and escalation
• Emotionally intelligent and reflective ready to lead with care

Why Join?


• Funded Level 5 and clear progression to senior roles
• Regular supervision, hands-on senior support
• ClearCare system and low admin load
• Sleep-in and on-call enhancements
• Real influence in a home from the beginning

How to Apply:
If you re ready to help lead a new home with purpose and support, we d love to speak with you.
Call Joe on (phone number removed) to discuss the Woolsthorpe role.