Team Leader - Mental Health Team

We are keen to recruit candidates who are able to support and enable our customers to lead and maintain fulfilling lives whilst ensuring that their daily individual care and support needs are met whilst ensuring their quality of life is paramount. These needs should be met with integrity by those who can help us ensure our company values are at the heart of everything we do.

Our care and support should have the individual at its centre, promote respect, dignity, engagement, and participation, throughout the delivery of personalised care and support.

As Team Leader, your role will be to provide support to a Service Manager, leading a team of employees to perform their roles safely to provide services in accordance with standards and legislation. In addition, you will oversee the development and implementation of care plans that are designed to provide meaningful choice and support to those in need of care, so they can access services to help them lead the life they want.

We are looking for a Team Leader who will instil a culture of continuous improvement, through dialogue via induction, probation, supervision and appraisal as well as working jointly with other professionals to ensure customers receive support which is designed to meet their own personal need.

As Team Leader you will demonstrate leadership ability and the excellent communication and interpersonal skills required within this role. You should also have experience of supporting customers within the social care sector., Person specification G5 (1).docx (21.1 KB)
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Sunderland Care and Support is one of the leading Social Care Providers of high-quality care and support to the community of Sunderland. We are passionate about supporting adults with their mental health to lead fulfilling lives. We are seeking to recruit two team Leader into our supported Living area who can lead a workplace culture based on respect and dignity for those in need of care and support.

• A starting salary of £28,770 - £31,364


• Designated rota pattern


• Excellent training opportunities


• A pension scheme


• Generous annual leave entitlement


• Career development opportunities


• A positive and rewarding job role and culture


• Work shifts on a rota including daytime, evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays,


This is an exciting opportunity to work within Mental Health services, working closely in the management team to provide high quality service, to enhance quality of life.