Team Leader

Residential Youth Worker Supported Accommodation Looked After Children and Asylum Seeking Young People

Location: Alfreton

Salary: 27686.28 per annum

Job title: Team Leader

A fulfilling and exciting opportunity available for a residential Team Leader in our Alfreton and Buxton service.

• Adullam Homes Housing Association Ltd supports vulnerable individuals and households.

• We provide quality housing deliver tailored support plans training education and employment opportunities to help people achieve stable lives and realise their full potential.

Purpose of the role

• To supervise and coordinate the team to ensure the day-to-day delivery of high quality reliable support service tailored to the specific needs of each young person entering our childrens services Including Looked After Children and unaccompanied asylum seeking young people within a 24 hour supported accommodation setting.
• Promoting independence and choice in accordance with the Statement of Purpose and Ofsted Supported Accommodation Standards.
• The job holder will carry out any other duties that are deemed appropriate to the post.
• The responsibilities of this post may vary from time to time without changing the general character of the post or level of responsibility entailed.
• The post may require working outside normal office hours from time to time.
• The role will require the job holder to participate in the On-Call Rota supporting service out of hours.
• We are all accountable for the Health & Safety of ourselves and others put simply this includes you taking the time to complete all learning understanding your role specific responsibilities working with reasonable care and taking steps to report problems related to health and safety.
• Some young people may have experienced significant trauma in their home country and on their journey to the UK.
• The post holder must be empathetic knowledgeable and professional in understanding the specific needs of asylum seeking adolescents transitioning into adulthood.
• Speakers of other languages would be an advantage (especially Arabic) but not essential.

Please see the job description for more information.

Adullam offers the following benefits:

• Salary 27686.28 per annum dependent on experience for 37.5 hours per week
• Competitive Annual Leave (25 days annual leave and 2 extra days added for a year of no sick days each calendar year)
• Training and career advancement
• Discounted Goods and services
• Pension
• Access to Westfield Health and Westfield Rewards/Discounts
• Life Assurance (4x Basic annual salary from the start of employment)
• Multidimensional wellbeing programmes and family-friendly policies for staff
• Refer a friend policy

We are passionate about actively encouraging applicants from all cultures backgrounds and are committed to treating our teams fairly and with respect irrespective of their background disability or any other protected characteristic and this starts with our recruitment process.

Adullam Homes Housing Association Ltd. is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children young people and adults accessing our services. We expect all staff volunteers and workers to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced with Barred List Adult and Child DBS check scrutiny of employment history and robust references checks.

Please note applicants must be authorised to work in the UK as we are unable to provide Visa sponsorships.

Adullam Homes Housing Association was created in 1972 to support vulnerable individuals and households. From the simple beginning of a single property in Birmingham Adullam has expanded into new geographical locations and developed new services.

Over the years it has introduced and run innovative projects to offer tenants residents and service users opportunities for housing support education and training.