About

• Positive Behaviour Support Team Leader
• Pay £13.98 per hour (£27,338 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
• Temporary (9 months contract), full time (37.5 hpw), 2 admin days in service and 22.5 hours a week on rota.
• Ashford
• We can’t offer a CoS for this role
• Home, a place where you belong
• Join us in this great and rewarding job, as our Positive Behavioural Support team Leader. You’ll manage our team to provide person-centred and strengths-based support to our customer (S) and help them reach their full potential.
• S has complex needs including a moderate learning disability, autism, Non-Verbal, some sensory processing challenges. They are early 20s and are outgoing, cheeky and enjoys being outside in the garden.
• S has some sensory processing difficulties, and likes to touch items, moving them between their hands to meet the needs, firm favourites are socks, sand and bubbles.
• What you’ll do
• You’ll manage a team of PBS Support Workers centred around a customer with complex presentation.
• You and your team will support customers with any aspect of their day-to-day living. You’ll work in a person-centred, strengths-based and psychologically informed way, so they can enjoy the best possible quality of life
• You’ll be in regular contact with your manager updating, escalating and reporting on all aspects of the service delivery.
• You’ll be responsible for planning and overseeing complex support working with customers who display behaviours of concern and may require personal care working alongside Home Group’s local multi-disciplinary team
• Motivating, directing, guiding, coaching and supporting your team to work with our customers.
• Why join us
• This is more than a job, it’s a place where you feel valued. You get great training, support from friendly colleagues and a chance to make a real difference every day. Be part of one of the UK’s top 10 Great Places to Work!
• You have
• Experience in CQC Regulated services, a Level 4 Diploma in Adult Health & Social Care or equivalent or prepared to work towards it.
• Worked as a Senior Support Worker, leading support for people with complex needs, or behaviours of distress.
• A patient and calm approach, able to adapt your style to X's needs, as well as to the specific occasion and circumstances, even when they challenge us.
• Great people management and motivation skills, bringing colleagues together to share information, best practice and fostering creativity.
• Experience of positive risk management, ensuring the safety and wellbeing of customers and colleagues.
• To help S get out and about, you’ll need to be able to drive a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
• Ideally got Makaton, but that’s not a deal breaker!
• Stronger together
• We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!
• The practical bits
• Able to use technology to update create and update support plans, communicate with colleagues and complete online learning.
• We’ll make sure you have a fantastic induction with ongoing learning and support.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
• What’s in it for you?
• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Find out more
• Click APPLY NOW to see the PBS Team Leader Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. Roles can close early, so don’t wait.
• For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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