Job description

About Teamwork

Teamwork Trust provides care and support to adults with autism, learning disabilities and mental health needs. Our three centres are friendly, safe and supportive places in which our service users make new friends, access education and employment experiences, and take part in on and off-site activities and classes.

Main duties

• The job holder will be required to be a key worker for nominated service users, ensuring their relationship within and external to Teamwork are understood and nurtured to provide the best possible service to the individual.
• Actively encourage person-centred planning where individuals can explore their aspirations and feel safe to explore the life they choose.
• Organise, co-ordinate and monitor individual support plans ensuring they are conducted and completed in accordance with Teamwork policy.
• Ensure that policy and procedure relating to safeguarding, serious concerns, formal complaints and serious health and safety incidents are followed in the immediate instance.
• Ensure records are immediately updated to reflect changing need. Evidence that changes are effectively communicated to all staff and relevant stakeholders. Embed a culture that evidencing of progression and support is a part of every hour of every day.
• Support employee engagement and performance through effective leadership, communication, supervision, appraisal and mentoring of your team, including inducting new starters.

Person Specification

• NVQ level 3 – Health and Social Care (level 3) or equivalent OR Diploma in Health and Social Care
• Minimum 2 years in adult social care with learning disabilities or autism
• Person centred planning skills
• Ability to enthuse people and gain their commitment to implementing essential procedures and compliant working practices.
• Team leadership – understanding of performance management

To request a copy of the full job description, please email Sophie Tosland

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £26,500.00 per year

Benefits:

• On-site parking

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 20/08/2024

TO APPLY

Please send your C.V. and a covering letter (maximum one side of A4) demonstrating skills, experience and why you would like to be part our team to Sophie Tosland

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with a view to close the advert when the right candidate is recruited.

Teamwork Trust is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes diversity and encourages inclusion. We aim to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.  

Our recruitment selection criteria and procedures (including the areas or media sources which are used in the recruitment process) are frequently reviewed to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted, and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and that no applicant or employee is disadvantaged by provisions, criteria or practices which cannot be shown to be justified.  

As part of our values, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and actively celebrate our employee’s differences.