Female Care Team Leader

Location: Bursledon, Southampton, Hampshire
Days & Hours: 118 hours per 4 week period split as follows:30hours of Team Leader duties (average of 7.5 hours a week) and up to88 hours of support worker shifts per 4 week period. Please note some shifts will include weekend working.

Pay:£18.48-£19.63 per hour dependent on experience. Sleeping Nights are paid at National Living Wage/National Living Wage + £1 per hour.
Driver required? Essential
Driving Client's Car? No, you will need a car with business insurance.
Using Own Vehicle for work purposes? Yes, on duty.
Essential:Supportingadults in their own home with Seizures, Learning Difficulties and ABI.
Desirable: Experience working with adults with ABI and LDAccommodation (while on duty):Good sized double bedroom with carer bathroom.
Interviews Week Commencing: Interviews will happen on a rolling basis. This advert will close when sufficient applications have been received. Please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application can be considered.
Start Date: ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks)

Would you like to join a great support team and work with Rosie, she has a great sense of humour, an animal fan and a coffee lover!

Introducing Rosie
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.

The Team Leader duties will include maintaining and managing a team of 1:1 24/7 support workers, to include rotas and cover arrangements, inductions, appraisals, supervisions and identifying training needs. Ensuring the care given is of high quality, safe and effective. You will also have on-call duties.

The Support Worker role will involve working alongside Rosie in her own home and assisting her to manage and participate in everyday life-skills, including working at a City Farm and helping to look after the animals there, as well as keeping fit and healthy through activity. You will also be expected to assist with client related domestic chores, such as helping to clear up following kitchen tasks, tidying her room, ensuring her equipment is clean and tidy and processing her washing. It is essential that the Team Leader/Support Worker is prepared to assist with these tasks to ensure the smooth running of Rosie's home and to work co-operatively with her and the Case Manager, to offer her the best opportunity to fulfil her potential. The role will also involve supporting Rosie on holiday as required.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join a supportive care team where you can make a real difference to Rosie's life by maximising her opportunities and promoting her independence wherever possible. Atruly rewarding role for someone who is able to communicate effectively and an ability to work with patience, tact, understanding, warmth and compassion.

• £18.48-£19.63 per hour.Sleeping Nights are paid at National Living Wage/National Living Wage + £1 per hour.
• On-going training & support provided
• 5.6 weeks annual leave pro rata
• Pension (subject to qualifying status)
• Sick leave entitlement
• Free DBS check.

In order to promote continuity of our high care standards, you will be offered:

• Induction,
• Relevant training opportunities,
• Regular clinical supervision/review meetings,
• On-going support from a dedicated Case Manager and HR department

Safeguarding
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. This position will require:

• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK;
• An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate. A conviction will not necessarily prevent you from being employed.

About You

Role Requirements:

We require an enthusiastic, motivated and dynamic member of the team.

You will need:

• Experience of and qualifications (NVQ level 3 or equivalent) in caring for adults with disabilities
• Great organisational skills.
• Experience of Epilepsy.
• Able to maintain effective working relationships, including the utilisation of the appropriate person management skills required to lead, train and support a team of Support Worker/Carers.
• Experience of formulating appropriate care plans and rotas
• Good written skills and the ability to keep adequate written records of care given.
• Confident about working inRosie's own home and sensitive to her needs and wishes
• Flexible, efficient and able to use own initiative and able to work flexible hours, sometimes at short notice.
• Available by phone to support the team when not on shift as part of on call duties.
• Able to develop an appropriate range of activities for Rosie.
• Good observation and planning ability.
• Confident with using I.T.
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of the importance of maintaining confidentiality and to respect Rosie and their family's need for privacy.
• Can demonstrate commitment and passion for meetingRosie's needs
• Can demonstrate empathy and understanding in an appropriate and professional manner
• A team player who understands the importance of feedback to qualified members of the team
• Can develop productive and professional relationships with others
• Actively creates an inclusive environment respecting diversity
• Good organisational skills who can adhere to standards and quality requirements
• Car driver essential - you will need a full driving licence (any endorsements to be disclosed)
• Availability of a car for use for work purposes.
• Non smoker - This post operates a non-smoking environment.

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.

About Us

ILS CaseManagementis the UK's leading independent nationwide Case Management company.

When a person's life has been changed by injury, we address the practicalities. We work with children and adults who have had moderate or catastrophic, complex injuries. We assess individual needs and are able to provide a comprehensive Case Management designed to maximise independence. We are CQC registered and compliant with theirstandards.

Our Case Managers work closely with our Clients, and we carry out all the recruitment processes on behalf of our Clients; and will support you, from your initial telephone interview right through to arranging employer interviews, trial shifts and placement.

If you are successfully recruited, you will be employed directly byour client or their Deputy appointed by the Court of Protection. However, ILS will manage your day-to-day employment, providing you with the support you need to carry out your role. Working as a Carer or Support Worker for an ILS client means that you will have a dedicated Case Manager to oversee your client's care needs.

Our Company Values
We are Supportive. It matters to us that our clients and staff know that we care.
We have Integrity. We can be trusted to work in a professional, honest and transparent way .
We are Client Centred. Weput our client's aspirations at the centre of everything we do.
We are Quality Focussed. Weset high standards and aim to exceed them.
We are Positive. Wefind solutions and empower others.