Team Leader for Lou

Lou is incredibly sociable and she has many hobbies, including shopping and spending time with her kitten Harry. She likes to listen to music and she has an eclectic taste in artists, she also enjoys and is very good at singing along to pantomimes and musicals. Lou has a great sense of humour and loves to have a laugh with her team, she is a big fan of practical jokes. She is currently in a relationship and needs some support around managing this. For a long time Lou was in a long stay hospital, she has done really well adjusting to life in her new home but sometimes she requires support to manage her feelings. As her team leader she needs you to demonstrate patience and some resilience. She wants to continue her journey to be more independent and she wants a good leader who will be on this journey with her. At times she can engage in some risky behaviours, at these times you will have to show confidence and demonstrate a calm persona so that she feels confident and safe with you. As team leader you will be responsible for leading a small team, this includes planning rotas and working some shifts, you will be given some dedicated management hours for this. We can offer you a full programme of professional and personal development, reflective support and supervision and a range of company benefits.

Benefits:

• We reward our staff with competitive salaries
• We offer an Award Winning Pension Scheme
• We have a company sick pay scheme
• Excellent annual leave allowance, including top up pay
• Critical Illness cover, reassurance when you need it the most
• Life Insurance, reassurance for your family when they need it the most
• A really good mandatory induction
• Ongoing high quality training
• Career development opportunities
• A real chance to make a difference to someone’s life

Ideally you will:

• Be highly self motivated
• Have similar interests to Lou
• Be an excellent communicator
• Be interested in developing your career
• Have a good level of IT skills
• Be an upbeat person with a sense of fun
• Be able to use your own initiative
• Be resilient, stick at it

Does the job role include personal care?: Yes

Working Patterns:

Day and night shifts

Essential details:

A DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check will be requested in the event of the individual being offered a position with Beyond Limits, the cost of which will be to the employee, however, this will be returned after successful completion of probation period (6 months).

These positions have a “genuine occupational requirement” covered under the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and therefore only applications from females are requested.