Metropolitan Thames Valley
Care & Support Team Leader
Job Location
Stevenage, United Kingdom
Job Description
Care & Support Team Leader
Stevenage
£29,806 per annum
Fixed Term (with opportunities to become permanent)
Driver required as part of the role
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a strong & dynamic Team Leader to lead the Care & Support Mental Health team in Midpoint Stevenage. Within this role you will help lead and encourage staff to support residents with enduring mental health issues. This can be challenging but rewarding in equal measure. There is no personal care but there will be some medication prompts & administration. You will be working from Stevenage as your base and will be expected to attend various wards across Hertfordshire. Therefore, a driver is required. Travel is paid for.
The role is expected to be fixed term Maternity cover until July 2025, there will be opportunities to become permanent as we open our new services early next year.
Overall Responsibility
To provide people and resource management within Midpoint to effectively ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, and business requirements, while delivering excellent, personalised, value for money services to customers. Participate in the effective management of staff, service budgets and other resources to ensure commercial viability and strengthen Metropolitan?s market position; and promote a culture of customer engagement in shaping service delivery.
This is a predominately Monday to Friday position, but we would expect you to be flexible and reactive to the service?s needs and requirements. The role may require some shift work, including some weekends and bank holidays. You will be expected to be part of a supported on-call rota, for which you will be paid for.
Key responsibilities:
Support the development and remodeling of services, raising the profile of care and support
services and the Metropolitan offer to customers.
Responsibility of staff rotas, fair allocation smooth running of the services
Assist in the development, delivery and reporting on team plans for designated service area to evidence high quality service delivery.
Promote the Metropolitan vision and culture and embed within core areas of responsibility to enhance Metropolitans reputation in the marketplace. Work within timeframes set by internal and external stakeholders to role model ?gold standard? delivery.
Recruit, induct, develop, and manage the performance of staff to deliver cohesive, high performing teams which achieve performance targets and consistently high-performance standards, this includes the assessment of learning activity where required.
Manage the scheduling and deployment of team members (including annual leave and absence) to achieve optimum care levels for customers as well as providing a cost-effective staffing model for the service.
Support Team Managers to manage service income and expenditure budgets effectively, to meet contract and business requirements, maintaining excellent standards of service delivery.
Assist with the monitoring, management and reporting on performance and risk, taking appropriate action to deliver compliance with quality standards, business targets, contractual and regulatory frameworks.
Assist the new business team with the identification, bidding and implementation of commercial opportunities.
Conduct staff supervisions, appraisals and one to ones on a regular basis.
Would be required to recommend best practice methodology to workstream leads
Personal Attributes:
A competent Team Leader and task Supervisor with the ability to inspire teams to achieve the very best through instilling a performance management culture.
An excellent communicator to your customer audience, presenting care and support issues in a user-friendly manner.
Good IT literacy and organisation of Outlook calendars
An affinity with the work of the care sector.
Essential criteria:
NVQ3 qualification or willing to work towards
Demonstrable understanding and experience of the needs and issues of the customer group.
Experience of working with and engaging customers and an understanding of personalisation and co-production in health and social care.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What?s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
Cycle2work scheme
Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment
Location: Stevenage, GB
Posted Date: 9/27/2024
Stevenage
£29,806 per annum
Fixed Term (with opportunities to become permanent)
Driver required as part of the role
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a strong & dynamic Team Leader to lead the Care & Support Mental Health team in Midpoint Stevenage. Within this role you will help lead and encourage staff to support residents with enduring mental health issues. This can be challenging but rewarding in equal measure. There is no personal care but there will be some medication prompts & administration. You will be working from Stevenage as your base and will be expected to attend various wards across Hertfordshire. Therefore, a driver is required. Travel is paid for.
The role is expected to be fixed term Maternity cover until July 2025, there will be opportunities to become permanent as we open our new services early next year.
Overall Responsibility
To provide people and resource management within Midpoint to effectively ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory, and business requirements, while delivering excellent, personalised, value for money services to customers. Participate in the effective management of staff, service budgets and other resources to ensure commercial viability and strengthen Metropolitan?s market position; and promote a culture of customer engagement in shaping service delivery.
This is a predominately Monday to Friday position, but we would expect you to be flexible and reactive to the service?s needs and requirements. The role may require some shift work, including some weekends and bank holidays. You will be expected to be part of a supported on-call rota, for which you will be paid for.
Key responsibilities:
Support the development and remodeling of services, raising the profile of care and support
services and the Metropolitan offer to customers.
Responsibility of staff rotas, fair allocation smooth running of the services
Assist in the development, delivery and reporting on team plans for designated service area to evidence high quality service delivery.
Promote the Metropolitan vision and culture and embed within core areas of responsibility to enhance Metropolitans reputation in the marketplace. Work within timeframes set by internal and external stakeholders to role model ?gold standard? delivery.
Recruit, induct, develop, and manage the performance of staff to deliver cohesive, high performing teams which achieve performance targets and consistently high-performance standards, this includes the assessment of learning activity where required.
Manage the scheduling and deployment of team members (including annual leave and absence) to achieve optimum care levels for customers as well as providing a cost-effective staffing model for the service.
Support Team Managers to manage service income and expenditure budgets effectively, to meet contract and business requirements, maintaining excellent standards of service delivery.
Assist with the monitoring, management and reporting on performance and risk, taking appropriate action to deliver compliance with quality standards, business targets, contractual and regulatory frameworks.
Assist the new business team with the identification, bidding and implementation of commercial opportunities.
Conduct staff supervisions, appraisals and one to ones on a regular basis.
Would be required to recommend best practice methodology to workstream leads
Personal Attributes:
A competent Team Leader and task Supervisor with the ability to inspire teams to achieve the very best through instilling a performance management culture.
An excellent communicator to your customer audience, presenting care and support issues in a user-friendly manner.
Good IT literacy and organisation of Outlook calendars
An affinity with the work of the care sector.
Essential criteria:
NVQ3 qualification or willing to work towards
Demonstrable understanding and experience of the needs and issues of the customer group.
Experience of working with and engaging customers and an understanding of personalisation and co-production in health and social care.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What?s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
Cycle2work scheme
Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment
Location: Stevenage, GB
Posted Date: 9/27/2024
Contact Information
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