Team Leader - Hucknall, United Kingdom - Change Grow Live

Change Grow Live

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Hucknall, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Overview:

Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives. Our core values are

Our

Team Leaders here at Change Grow Live play an integral role in ensuring an effective service provision for our service users by creating a focussed culture, engaging staff to provide an innovative and continually improving service and provide leadership, support, and development to a wide range of staff.

We have a new and exciting opportunity for a

Team

Leader to join our

Nottinghamshire Team. As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will work flexibly and creatively to establish what is needed to have the most positive impact for all who are referred to our service.

Where:
Nottinghamshire

Hours: 37.5 Fixed Term Contract (12 Months)

Salary:
£33,365,47 - £35,226,32

Responsibilities:

About the role:

To provide regular supervision and line management to identified team members and contribute to the delivery of a quality service.
To develop and maintain excellent working relationships with appropriate local partners to ensure quality delivery.
To support and guide the team to assess clients, prepare individual plans and motivate service users to actively engage.
To ensure that the team has a dynamic outreach approach and are constantly seeking out areas of need and employing appropriate responses.
To ensure equality of service provision throughout the service.
To uphold all CGL policies and procedures and actively promote equality of opportunity in the course of your work.
To maintain a safe and welcoming environment ensuring health and safety standards are adhered to.
To ensure regular consultation with service users.
To collaborate effectively with partner agencies and bring a proactive approach to partnership work.
To identify relevant partners and develop work strategies to ensure the needs of young people are being met.
To inspire and motivate team members to ensure an engaged and unified working culture.
To identify learning and development needs of team members and to support them in achieving their learning requirements.
To take a lead on performance management, utilising tools such as observed practise and implementing effective support and action plans where improvement needs are identified.
To develop internal strategies and processes the team will use to meet the requirements of the contract.
To work together with managers from Social Care, Youth Justice Service, and other relevant partners to develop activity within their services.
To monitor budget expenditure in conjunction with the Service manager in particular, client costs, staff expenses and phone and office costs.
To work with the service manager to maintain strong governance and monitoring systems.
To manage projects from beginning to completion demonstrating effective decisionmaking skills, delegation, risk management and evaluation.
To delegate workloads evenly and ensure contingencies are in place for busy periods.
To lead on safeguarding as the designated safeguarding lead and establish a learning environment where staff feel empowered to explore safeguarding issues, review the assessment of risk and identify cases for escalation with appropriate action taken.
To work with the service manager to ensure the child's voice is at the centre of all work carried out.
To train professionals internally and externally upon request and in relation to the issues surrounding YP substance misuse and impact of parental substance misuse (Hidden Harm).
To work collaboratively across the service with CGL colleagues such as psychologist, social workers, and recovery workers to ensure a joined up, all age family approach to achieve positive outcomes for families.
To attend relevant CGL forums
To undertake any other duties as instructed by the line manager/s that will contribute to fulfilling the project aims.

About you:

Experience of working with children and young people experiencing difficulties around Substance misuse.
Knowledge of the issues facing children, young people and their families affected by substance misuse.
Excellent knowledge of drugs and alcohol and their effects.
Line management experience including the delivery of reflective supervision.
The ability to lead, empower and motivate a team.
Experience of project management.
Excellent knowledge of safeguarding policies and practices relating to children and young people and experience of embedding these operationally.
The ability to foster new partnerships and to maintain positive relationships with partner agencies.
Knowledge of a range of psychosocial and clinical interventions, including Motivational interviewing techniques and ITEP.
Knowledge and understanding around the 'Hidden Harm' agenda.
Knowledge and experience of communitybased support/outreach practices.
Ability to ensure all record keeping, ou