Team Leader
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Job Summary
Are you a passionate and inspiring leader who wants to help people make positive changes in their lives
OurTeam Leadershere at Change Grow Live play an integral role in ensuring an effective service provision for our service users by creating a focussed culture engaging staff to provide an innovative and continually improving service and provide leadership support and development to a wide range of staff.
We are looking for an experienced and motivated Team Leader to join our Halton service. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a dedicated team oversee our thriving community café champion volunteer and peer mentor development and support people on their recovery journey.
As a Team Leader you will provide visible leadership promote a positive and inclusive culture and ensure high-quality support and recovery-focused services are delivered across the service.
Where: Halton
Hours:34 per week
Contract:Permanent
Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours.
About the Role
Reporting to the Service Manager you will lead and support a diverse team of staff and volunteers ensuring the delivery of safe effective and person-centred services.
A key element of this role is the oversight of our well-established Kitchen Table Community Café in Widnes. You will line manage the Café Lead support volunteer recruitment and development and ensure the café remains a welcoming hub for service users and the wider community.
You will also play a lead role in promoting recovery opportunities community engagement and service user involvement.
- Provide operational leadership and line management to staff volunteers and peer mentors.
- Deliver supervision appraisal performance management and staff development.
- Foster a positive recovery-focused and service user-centred culture.
- Oversee the Kitchen Table Community Café and support the Café Lead in its day-to-day operation.
- Lead on the recruitment coordination and development of volunteers and peer mentors.
- Oversee delivery of CGL accredited Quality Licence Scheme (QLS) programmes .
- Promote meaningful service user involvement and co-production.
- Support individuals in recovery to access volunteering training education and employment opportunities.
- Coordinate recovery-focused activities and events including Recovery Month and Volunteer Week.
- Monitor service quality performance and outcomes driving continuous improvement.
- Work collaboratively with internal teams and external partner agencies.
- Ensure effective safeguarding risk management health and safety and governance processes are maintained.
About you:
- Experience of working with Adults experiencing difficulties around substance use and multiple complexities.
- Excellent knowledge of drugs and alcohol and their effects.
- Line management experience
- The ability to lead empower and motivate a team.
- Excellent knowledge of safeguarding policies and practices and experience of embedding these operationally.
- The ability to foster new partnerships and to maintain positive relationships with partner agencies.
- Knowledge of a range of psychosocial and evidence-based interventions around substance misuse.
- Knowledge and experience of community-based support/outreach practices.
- Ability to ensure all record keeping outcome monitoring and data collection is maintained effectively.
- Communicate confidently and effectively verbally and in writing.
- Respond flexibly to the demands of the post.
- The ability to keep calm under pressure.
- Show commitment to facilitating positive outcomes for Adults.
What we will give to you:
- 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays. Additionally youll receive one extra day of annual leave for each year of service during your first five years therefore you will enjoy 30 days of leave after five years with us.
- 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
- Refer a friend scheme.
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.
AI can be a really helpful tool when putting together your application and were happy for you to use it. However what were most interested in is you.
We want to understand your experiences achievements and strengths so please make sure your application reflects your own story and clearly shows how you meet the essential criteria and the impact youve made in previous roles.
Direct applications only we will not be engaging agencies for this vacancy.
Please note: This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. For applicants with time-limited visas unfortunately we are unable to support new visa applications or extensions.
We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if we receive a high number of applications so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
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