Team Leader - Hertfordshire, United Kingdom - Look Ahead Housing and Care

Look Ahead Housing and Care
Look Ahead Housing and Care
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Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Job profile:


  • The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
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Job details:
Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ00491
  • Date posted
  • 20/07/202 Application closing date
  • 21/08/202 Location
  • Hertfordshire
  • Salary
- £28,663.00

  • Package
  • Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
  • Contractual hours
  • 40
  • Basis
  • Full time
  • Job category/type
  • Full Time, Permanent
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Team Leader:

Job description

  • We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient

Team Leader to join our

Learning Disabilities service in

Hertfordshire.

£28,663.00 per annum, working

40 hours per week.
_ Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression._
Want to feel like you're part of one team? You'll feel at home here.

  • Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, awardwinning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team.

After all, our people are doing something amazing:
helping to transform lives every day.

  • Specific details about the service and team. If individual care role details about the person.
  • This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation.
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What you'll do:


The PBS Practitioners will be involved in modelling and leading best practice, completing functional assessments, identifying, and implementing strategies and appropriate support planning, training small groups of support staff and working with individuals who have learning disabilities, autism, and behaviours that challenge.

The work will involve the support of people with complex needs to ensure people can be discharged from hospital settings and reduce the risk of people being admitted to such settings.

Focus is on enhancing the quality of lives of people, and on restriction minimisation and reduction.

  • The Knebworth Supported Living Service will be a new home for one customer with learning disabilities and Autism, and we are looking to build a staff team with an excellent value base to support the customer to build their new life and develop their skills as an independent person.
  • Your role will include:
Complete Functional Assessments and implement PBS Plans in collaboration with support teams, the person supported, and families as appropriate

  • To monitor implemented PBS Plans, to check on consistency of approaches
  • Coach/advise teams when inconsistency is evident
  • Confidently and professionally challenge and report poor or abusive practice, in line with the organisations and PBS values
  • Promote the least restrictive means of support, and the organisations commitment to STOMP and the reduction in use of psychotropic medicines
  • Work collaboratively with the Positive Partnership Team to ensure people have excellent support from transition, to moving in and beyond.
  • Respond to crisis situations in which a person is posing a risk to self and/or others and there is a risk of placement breakdown/hospital admission
  • Maintain data analysis related to behavioural support to evidence justification for strategies employed and behavioural trends over time
  • Supporting the customer to undertake a full timetable of preferred activities including sport and leisure activities, attending community groups, visiting local amenities, and introducing them to new activities to expand their horizons and networks.
  • Developing the customer's independent living skills and involving them in all aspects of maintaining and developing their home, including cooking, shopping, cleaning and decorating.
  • Enabling the customer to keep up with the important people in their life and to meet new people with shared interests.
  • Be creative in approaches to provide advice and information in an engaging manner through the use of workshops, events and technology.
  • Supporting the customer to communicate their wants and needs, and communicating with them in a personcentred way;
  • Supporting the customer to manage their anxieties and frustrations, using Positive Behaviour Support and Autismspecific approaches;
  • Communicating with family members and a range of other key stakeholders including social work, psychology and commissioning teams;
  • Acting in accordance with the policies and procedures of Look Ahead Care & Support plus those specific to the service including any statutory requirements;
  • Reporting any observations relating to customer welfare;
  • Maintaining records as required at the project;
  • Participating in team meetings/reviews, support planning, risk management and the general development of the service;
  • Undertaking any other duties as requested by management
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