Team Leader Children's Home (Maternity Cover)

As a Team Leader youll combine hands-on work with children with the opportunity to develop your leadership skills. Youll work directly with children and families lead and develop practitioners and help create a safe nurturing home where children can thrive.

Key responsibilities include: 

• Lead shifts and role model excellent practice helping to create a safe nurturing and well-run home.
• Line manage coach and develop practitioners including supporting induction supervision and reflective practice.
• Build strong trusting relationships with children providing hands-on care and supporting their wellbeing development and goals.
• Safeguard children and promote their welfare responding confidently to risks concerns and changing needs.
• Lead and oversee childrens care and activities ensuring plans are followed and children have meaningful experiences and opportunities.
• Work closely with families and professionals advocating for children and helping strengthen the relationships around them.
• Support the leadership and continuous improvement of the home including quality of practice records staffing and regulatory requirements.
• Share leadership responsibility including contributing to management meetings and taking part in the out-of-hours on-call rota.

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Qualifications :

Were looking for an experienced proactive and caring leader who can role model great practice develop others and build strong relationships with children with complex needs.

Youll be kind patient adaptable and resilient with the ability to look beyond behaviour and understand what children need. Youll be willing to get stuck into life in the home have fun with children and help create a warm nurturing environment where they feel safe and can thrive.

Key essential criteria:

• Experience of working with children or vulnerable groups in a childrens home or similar residential setting.
• The ability to lead motivate supervise support and develop staff to ensure high standards of care/
• The ability to build strong and trusting relationships with children.
• A strong understanding of the risks and issues facing children in care and their families and strategies to support these
• Skills in de-escalating conflict and working with challenging situations and behaviour.
• Teamwork and communication skills to be able to work effectively as part of the team and in partnership with families and other professionals and agencies.
• Level 3 Diploma for Residential Care (or equivalent)

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Additional Information :

Application Process

Please upload your CV and submit a cover letter in the Message to Hiring Manager box that outlines:

• Why you are interested in the role 
• How you meet the essential criteria in the person specification

Safer Recruitment 

At Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust we safeguard all children and young people in our care. As part of our recruitment process we conduct rigorous checks and vetting of all applicants in line with legal and regulatory requirements and best practices. Everyone who works in our homes will be responsible for safeguarding young people and putting their safety and wellbeing first.

This role is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (police records) check including overseas police checks where necessary. Please note that this post is exempt from the limitations of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and as such all previous cautions and convictions will need to be disclosed as part of any application.

For further information about the process please go to:  the benefits of working for Catch22 here.

Maternity cover role until 30 September 2027.

See the benefits of working for Catch22 here.

Unless otherwise stated interviews will be arranged as suitable candidates are identified so early application is strongly advised.

We aim to review applications as quickly as possible. However due to the volume of interest we receive we may not be able to contact all applicants individually. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of the closing date please assume that your application has not been successful this time.

At Catch22 we value equality diversity and inclusion. We are wholeheartedly committed to the principle of equality of opportunity both as an employer and as a provider of services. Diversity and Inclusion is part of what we do every day working to deliver our vision to build a strong society where everyone has good people around them a purpose and a good place to live.

Catch22 is committed to rigorous safeguarding and safer recruitment practices; ensuring that every individual within the organisation has been safely and appropriately checked.

Please note we will conduct an online search as part of our due dilligence checks for successful candidate(s). This will involve a search of all publicly available information online and in social media. 

Catch22s Commitment to Ban the Box

Catch22 is proud to have Banned the Box. This means that we do not ask for candidates to disclose criminal convictions at the application stage. Instead we invite disclosures at interview stage and encourage them at the offer stage. Please see our statement of commitment on hiring people with convictions for more information.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract