Children’s Team Leader

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Children’s Team Leader to work full time based in a Children’s home in Guernsey.

The salary for this permanent Team Leader job is up to £39,560

Main Duties:

• Assess, develop, implement and evaluate programmes of care
• Autonomously initiate emergency interventions as service user’s condition dictates
• Provide planned care without supervision, within the level of the post-holder’s experience, referring to a more senior staff member when necessary
• Participate as a team member supporting relatives and friends of patients/clients
• together with providing support for other patients/clients
• Maintain accurate records, both electronic and paper, of the care given in accordance with agreed standards
• Act in accordance with the standards, codes and guidelines laid down by the potholder’s regulatory body and adhere to HSC policy and procedure
• Independently liaise and communicate effectively with members of the multidisciplinary team and other associated agencies
• Within sphere of responsibility purchase goods and services as deemed appropriate to the needs of the service users and the maintenance of the environment in which they reside
• Participate in contributing to the continuing development of the department’s philosophy, training/education
• Undertake in-house annual mandatory training in that is deemed essential to the role
• Undertake the role of health promoter and educator for service users and their families/significant others
• Maintain and develop own skills to promote evidence-based practice within field of practice
• Participate in clinical supervision
• Assist in the learning, development and assessment of unqualified staff, junior staff and adaptation nurses
• Liaison with line manager, gain experience in providing leadership to junior staff
• Co-ordinate complex care arrangements through communication with multidisciplinary team members and associated agencies
• Give due consideration to language and cultural differences of service users, their significant others and colleagues

Requirements of this job:

• Registered Health or Social Care Professional e.g. Nurse, Speech and Language Therapist,
• OT, Registered Behaviour Technician or Social Worker
• VQ Assessor or BTEC Assessor training
• Ability to show leadership skills
• Experience of managing budgets
• Direct involvement in Ofsted inspections

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.