Team Leader - Wokingham, United Kingdom - Completely Care

Completely Care

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Wokingham, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for aa Team Leader to support a Housing Service for young people in Wokingham, the salary is up to £30,000 depending on experience and there are lots of great benefits as well as it being a rewarding role.

The service offers support to people who are homeless, vulnerable or at risk of becoming homeless and need help rebuilding their lives for a brighter future.

The services include safe, flexible and reliable client led housing and support with a focus on reducing homelessness, improving health and wellbeing and building on individual's skills and resilience to break the cycle of homelessness, poverty and exclusion.

You will manage a team of recovery staff that work with young people leaving care. You will love supporting others and helping them to progress and achieve their goals. Your positive attitude towards your work and your team will help to contribute to a great working environment. You will have a calm and personable manner and be able to handle potentially difficult situations.

You will support your team to achieve their potential through regular staff supervision and coaching and support them with their workload where needed.

You will be involved in the recruitment of your team, including relief staff and volunteers and be responsible for ensuring appropriate shift cover.

You will attend relevant meetings and produce reports regarding young people or with stakeholders/commissioners, where required. You will ensure staff are supporting young people in areas such as substance use, health and wellbeing, life skills, money management and managing their tenancies

You will work with external partners to maximise the opportunities available to young people so that they can resettle in the community and help to maintain a welcoming, safe environment, identifying and minimising all potential risks to all our young people, visitors to the service and the building.

You will carry out quality checks on young people's support records to ensure organisational standards are upheld You will ensure the young people are kept safe, working within our organisational and the local authorities safeguarding procedures

You will attend supervision, appraisal, training and meetings as directed which may be outside of your normal working pattern and work flexibly across all areas of operation where required and prior notice given and be part of the on-call service for Wokingham Services

You must have previous experience working with homelessness or in young peoples services in a similar environment.