Adult Care Team Leader

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Everyone deserves an incredible future!

Become a Adult Care Team Leader with Options Autism and start working towards yours.

Role: Adult Care Team Leader

Salary: £27,144.00 - £28,275.00 per annum

Hours: 43.5 hours per week

Contract: Full Time; Permanent

Options Autism are a values-driven organisation that strives to put both our employees and residents first. We provide continuous professional development to take your career further, alongside fully accredited courses to support your development.

Your wellbeing matters to us, and therefore we offer discounted gym memberships, Our Employees Reward Hub that offers great rewards such as discount vouchers, we offer Annual Leave Entitlement equivalent to 5.6 weeks per annum, plus our “Moment in Time” that allows additional days leave for a special day in your life, whether this be an anniversary, Birthday, Child’s first day at school or simply just a day to relax!

Benefits: we want our residents to have the best care possible, and therefore strive to look after our employees to make this possible. You’ll get an exceptional reward package that includes:

· Funded qualifications

· £27,144.00 - £28,275.00 per annum

· Annual Leave Entitlement equivalent to 5.6 weeks per year (with options to purchase more)

· Life Assurance

· Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions

· “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

And market leading benefits offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform Vista that enable you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

Plus, outstanding development and support starting with our award-winning induction programme, to supporting you with specialist qualifications and best in class management development and hi potential programmes, so you can flourish and develop your full potential.

About the Home:

Middleton Fells is a brand-new service situated in a beautiful rural location, seven miles from the market town of Kirkby Lonsdale and four miles from the town of Sedbergh. Just a 9-minute drive from the M6, the site has great links with Lancaster, Kendal and the Lake District. Middleton Fells provides high quality residential accommodation for adults with additional needs.

Middleton Fells provides a year-round residential home to people aged 18 to 64 with Autism Spectrum conditions and learning disabilities.

At Middleton Fells we recognise that it is important for the people we support to experience a range of appropriate role models. Therefore, we want to consider applications from all walks of life..

Who are we are looking for?

We are looking for a caring, responsible, experienced Team Leader to join our fantastic team at Middleton Fells.

As Team Leader, you will lead a team of Support Workers who care for our young adults in their daily lives, ensuring they are safe, comfortable, and healthy.

This is a great opportunity to progress your career in care, working as part of a team committed to helping young adults with varied and complex needs. Your work will be challenging and rewarding in equal measure and you will be working in a setting where we maintain a strong safeguarding culture, where our young adults are listened to, respected, and involved in as many decisions as possible.

Our Team Leaders carry out an essential and varied role, leading a team to provide the individual, bespoke, support required by the young adults in our care. You will design, implement, and monitor the care and education plans to meet the individual needs of our young adults, ensuring that key life and independent skills are achieved in the enriching and positive environment we strive to create.

If this sounds like you, please apply below or give us a call on 01204 558 055.

Being exceptional is just a call away.

What we need from you:

· Full and valid UK Driving Licence

· Access to a car

· Right to Work in the UK

· Currently hold a Adult Care Worker Level 2 Apprenticeship or NVQ equivalent.

· Passionate about caring for young adults, and to support them to reach their full potential

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. All successful applicants will be subject to fully Enhanced DBS.