Team Leader

Priory River House is looking to recruit a Team Leader to join the team. This is a full-time, 38.5 hours per week role.

Pay Rate: £14.05

Shifts: 8 am – 8 pm, weekends included

River House is located in the Shaw’s Bridge area of Belfast. It offers residential support for eight people who are on the autism spectrum or have a learning disability. We are in a semi-rural area on the outskirts of the city, surrounded by beautiful countryside. Our team are dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the people we support, helping them to achieve positive outcomes. We want to help each person we care for to have a healthy, happy and independent life, within a safe and welcoming home.

What you’ll be doing

You will be part of a compassionate team who are committed to our residents' well-being. We take a personalised approach, using proven therapies to help people move forward with confidence and build a healthier, more fulfilling future. As a Team Leader, you will play a key part in their recovery, assisting qualified staff with the assessment and implementation of individual patient care plans, undertaking routine tasks and activities as directed or delegated to facilitate wellbeing, dignity and treatment of residents.
 
As a Team Leader, you'll be working as part of a multidisciplinary team. To provide a professional, high-quality service that enables service users to achieve their aspirations and goals through empowerment and putting the service user at the centre of all we do, ensuring safety at all times. To assist with the management and supervision of the staff team.

Responsibilities

• Organises, co-ordinates and monitors the delivery of the unit’s care programme ensuring individual care plans are conducted and completed in accordance with the company’s policies and to agreed quality standards.
• Supervises the preparation, planning and delivery of group and one-to-one social, and recreational activities; observing, recording and reporting responses while managing the routine incidents in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures.
• Supervises the reception, orientation and induction of new service users ensuring they are comfortable and familiar with the environment and to impart essential information to their families and or carers.
• Supervises the effective, timely and accurate updating of service users’ records, case files and computerised information systems while responding to the more complex enquiries in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Observes and monitors the well being of service users ensuring that any unusual physical, mental or emotional occurrences are promptly referred to more senior staff and documented as appropriate.
• To undertake keyworking responsibility for individual service users, supporting the individual to plan goals and personal outcomes and ensure that these are comprehensively documented and reviewed.

What you’ll bring to the role

Our work is rewarding but can be challenging, so resilience is key. No two days are the same! Your natural empathy will help you support others through both the highs and lows.

Qualifications and Skills

• The role requires the relevant NVQ3 qualification together with demonstrable supervisory skills.
• The role holder will have acquired relevant care experience, which will have involved the supervision of junior care staff.

What we will give you in return

We want you to succeed at Priory and thrive in your role. You will be well supported with regular career conversations. We also offer full training and numerous pathways into leadership and qualified clinical positions to help you shape your career with us. 

Adult care benefits

• Free on-site parking
• 28 days annual leave
• Contributory pension scheme
• Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and private healthcare
• Access to development opportunities
• Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel
• Leadership & management development
• Long service award
• Refer a friend bonuses

About Priory

Priory is the leading independent provider of mental health and adult social care in the UK. We support 26,000 people a year to move towards a healthier future so they can live their lives as fully and independently as possible. We treat more than 70 conditions, including depression, anxiety, and eating disorders, as well as children’s mental health, across our nationwide network of sites. We also support autistic adults and adults with a learning disability, Prader-Willi Syndrome and brain injuries, as well as older people, within specialist residential care and supported living facilities.

With over 13,000 colleagues working at Priory, we have a long and prestigious history, and an unrivalled reputation for making a real and lasting difference to the lives of every individual in our care.
 

Priory is part of MEDIAN Group, a leading pan-European provider of mental health, specialist care and rehabilitation services, focussed on restoring quality of life through effective, evidenced and data-driven care.

Priory is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, read more here.

All roles will be subject to a successful disclosure at an appropriate level from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS), Access NI or Disclosure Scotland. We are an equal opportunities employer. Priory will cover the cost of a DBS check.

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