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 ‘Be open, be compassionate and be bold’ and our teams apply these daily, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options.
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 focused 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 an exciting opportunity for Team Leader to join our Think Family and Safeguarding team in our Barnet service. With this role, as directed by the Deputy Service Manager, you will provide clear role modelling and leadership for the Think Family Team to ensure effective service provision for service users.
Where: Barnet
Full Time Hours: 37.5 per hours
Full Time Salary Range: £34,700.09 - £36,635.38 dependent on experience (pro rata for part time hours)
Allowance: £2,163.27 Outer London Weighting
ResponsibilitiesAbout the role:
To provide direct line management and supervision to staff, volunteers and social work students within the ServiceTo support individuals and families to overcome multiple, complex problems, so they can live successfully within the community.Empowering staff to promote hope, empowerment, choices, control, and opportunities that assist service users reaching their full potential as individuals and community members. Work with your team and Designated Safeguarding Lead (if not your role) to ensure that the practices within the team/service enable identification of service users, children and families who are at risk. Ensure that staff are competent in the delivery of interventions that reduce risk to service users. To provide and support provision of evidence-based family interventions and groupworkTo work closely with Adult Social Care and Adult MASH, ensuring joined up pathways of care and exploring co-location opportunitiesBe available to all staff for advice / support around safeguarding children and adults at risk issuesSupport staff to improve service user outcomes through observed practice, providing timely values-based feedback. Lead on the recruitment, selection and induction of staff.
About you:
Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience. Extensive experience of working directly with families and individuals displaying challenging behaviour in one or more of the following fields; social work, youth offending, substance use, probation, health, family work, education, youth and communityKnowledge and experience of developing and leading health and social care services and delivering services which evidence high performance and quality standards.
Experience of supervising, appraising and supporting staff development
Significant experience of leading teams who work with families where children are subject to social care intervention. Knowledge of current legislation surrounding children, young people, and safeguarding practice Able to lead, inspire and develop a team. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and able to use common MS Office applications (Word/Excel/Outlook) Experience and knowledge of Children’s Social Care thresholds, referral processes and interventions
What we will give to you:
25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years’ service “Capped at 30 days”. Paid ‘Wellness’ hour each week along with a ‘Wellness’ hub and Employee Assist Programme Contributory pension scheme A great selection of benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc. A friendly and supportive team Training, career development & progression opportunities
Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role.
If you require sponsorship, please note that this role is not eligible for a Health and Care Worker visa. You may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route but must meet the minimum salary requirements for the role. You can find out more here Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
If this sounds like you and you’d like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we’d love to talk to you
Salary Range (pro rata if part time) CGL points 31 to 33 (£34,700.09 - £36,635.37) ILW / OLW /Fringe Outer London Weighting (£2,163.27) Interview Date 28/10/2024 Closing Date 21/10/2024 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details: Lisa Sturrock | lisa.sturrock@cgl.org.uk This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level. Options ApplyApplyShareEmail this job to a friendRefer <p style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;">Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"> </span></p> Share this vacancy on your newsfeed
We believe that having diverse people working as part of our team makes us the organisation that we are.
We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and to make Change Grow Live a great place to work. If you have any feedback on our recruitment processes (good or bad) we’d love to hear from you so that we can make sure they are fair and we attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible.
The safety of vulnerable children, young people and adults is our absolute priority. We will support you in your role to make sure that you are equipped to support the safety of people who use our services and those around them, to the highest standard possible.
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