Could you lead, inspire and motivate a team to provide high quality care and support to adults with a learning disability?
Having a pivotal role within St Joseph's, Team Leaders oversee and participate in the care and support provided to the people we support on a day to day basis.
We are looking for inspirational leaders with a passion for social care to inspire and motivate teams of staff to ensure that everyone with a learning disability supported by St Joseph's leads an independent, full and fantastic life within the community.
We are currently recruiting two full time Team Leaders who will be based in Midlothian to join St Joseph's Services.
Closing Date for applications: 5th February 2025.
Please return completed job application to: hello@stjosephsservice.co.uk. Please see the application form below for further details.
Team Leader
Postcode: EH24 9AW
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We are looking for a highly motivated person-centred team leader to join our Family and Education Services Team.
The job role will lead the operational day to day delivery of a high quality family support service for parents/carers of autistic children and young people and provide a comprehensive school support
service to our education colleagues across Perth & Kinross.
Working with the operational team to ensure that family support planning is effective and engaging, the post holder will also support the Service Manager to understand trends and themes, to help innovate and develop the service. You will lead on funded projects, working within budgets set for projects and support the day to day staffing of the operational team, including performance reviews, identification of learning and development needs and caseload support, advice and information.
Responsible for staffing the service, and allocating caseloads, you will also be involved in all aspects of team management including annual leave and sickness absence and supporting our team to ensure a healthy work life balance.
You will be an ambassador for Perth Autism Support, building relationships across the community to further our vision to support autistic children and young people to reach their full potential.
About Us
Perth Autism Support was founded in 2011 to address the gaps in support for autistic children, young people and their families across Perth & Kinross.
In 2024, we have over 1200 families registered for services and support children, young people and families through the following service areas:
- Children’s Services
- Transitions Services (encompassing three project areas – Engage, Enterprise and Employability)
- Family and Education Services (including our Early Years project and Autistic Adults Peer Support)
We are governed by a Board of Trustees (8) and we have a staff team of 32.
We are based in our centre in Perth City but work across the whole of the Perth & Kinross region.
For more information, visit perthautismsupport.org.uk
Are you a creative, dynamic and skilled leader who can champion change whilst taking others with you?
Scottish Autism is dedicated to enabling autistic people to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives. We believe in the power of relationships to transform the lives of the people we support. We help build a more caring, compassionate, and inclusive Scotland, relationship by relationship. As the largest provider of autism specific services in Scotland our responsibility is to champion the voices and rights of autistic people.
This is an exciting time to join Scottish Autism as a senior leader with responsibility for our commissioned and regulated services for autistic adults and young people. Our diverse range of services include education, day, and vocational opportunities, residential, supported living, outreach, and specialist transition support. Our people play an important role in delivering quality services and creating a world where autistic people are valued and empowered to fulfil their potential. Part of the role will include focussing on growth and development of the services.
Our service colleagues work in teams, supporting each other through the challenges and triumphs that happen every day. You will be a valued member of the Regional Leadership Team working collectively to shape and deliver our strategy and play a pivotal role in helping us achieve our mission. You will lead on the delivery of diverse and innovative high-quality services, as well as identify service development and growth opportunities.
With the focus on ongoing delivery, consolidation, and development of new services, we require an individual who is innovative and creative to develop these effectively. This will be in partnership with key stakeholders, supported individuals, parents and health professionals. Our leadership culture is about creating a positive, constructive, and supportive environment for the people we support, and our staff whom they depend on. You will also lead and influence partnership working, with Local Authority Commissioners, Care Inspectorate and SSSC to ensure all contractual obligations are fulfilled while meeting care standards.
The suitable candidate will lead our Central, Edinburgh & The Lothians and New Struan School Residence teams with a mixture of Care Home, Care at Home, Day, Housing Support and Outreach Support Services. You will have a relevant professional qualification in a related discipline and management experience. You will be responsible for overseeing the services provided within these areas and as such will be an effective leader, coach, communicator, negotiator with the ability to influence and challenge, building strong relationships across multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring advanced autism practice. Experience of Children’s services would be advantageous.
This is a great opportunity to build a role with both strategic and operational responsibilities and influence across an amazing organisation and sector. For an informal discussion or more information about the role and what Scottish Autism can offer you, please contact Caroline Shirlaw, People & Culture Business Partner Recruitment & Early Retention – caroline.shirlaw@scottishautism.org
Location is flexible, with an element of home working. The Regional offices are based in Craigmillar and Alloa with travel required other regional bases.
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‘Working for Scottish Autism has given me the opportunity to engage with and support the autistic community across Scotland. The support and learning opportunities I receive in my role has been fantastic and has helped me to achieve my personal and professional growth.’ – Current Regional Manager, Fife & Tayside Area Services.
Scottish Autism are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package. See some of what we offer here
Do you have a passion for helping people?
Do you have excellent communication skills?
Do you have the ability to drive high performing teams whilst ensuring a high-quality service, delivering excellent customer service to our clients?
Do you want to work for one of the best employability providers in Scotland?
Would you like to contribute to helping people with barriers to work find their dream job?
Then come and work for Enable Works.
Your role, as a Performance Manager will be to manage the performance and quality of our contracts in Dundee. You will be responsible for performance management; key to this will be developing positive professional relationships with our staff teams and programme partners in each area. You will directly line manage a team of Team Leaders and Employment Coordinators.
Enable Works are the leading specialist provider of employability services for people who have barriers to work. We believe that every person in Scotland has the right to work in a job that is high quality and well paid.
Enable Works supports over 5500 people every year across 28 Local Authorities to learn skills for work.
We partner with thousands of employers to create inclusive cultures and improve the diversity of Scotland's workforce.
We are incredibly proud of our smart, capable, and motivated colleagues across Scotland and following a period of significant growth we are looking to grow our team.
We offer a generous salary, excellent benefits, and opportunities to develop and grow in your role.
We offer flexible working practices that promote a strong work/life balance so that when you are at work you can be the best version of you.
Values are more important to us than qualifications or experience, so if you don’t think you meet every requirement that’s ok, we still want to hear from you. Please tell us in your supporting statement how your values match with our organisation.
About You
We really need you to have these:
Why?
Our vision is that every person in Scotland is able to access the support they need to find a high-quality job that pays them well and your drive and commitment to this job will help them get there.
You will understand that each client has individual skills and aspirations and you will work with your team to ensure they are supporting our clients to progress towards their chosen career goal whilst recognising our commitment to our funders in terms of both performance and financial targets.
You will be representing Enable Works in everything you do so you will need a professional, can-do attitude. Our reputation is important to us. As a performance manager, you will have an approachable and flexible style of management with the ability to coach and develop your team to achieve the best for them and our clients.
Our culture is autonomous so that means we trust you to manage your time. You will effectively monitor the performance and best practice of your team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services that exceed the expectations of our clients and funders. Attention to detail is important as it means you can work accurately and follow instructions.
Having the confidence to get out and engage people in the local community will be key to the success of your programme. You will engage with local referral partners, other organisations who can offer specialist support to our clients as well as employers to support the team to source the best opportunities for our clients and this can mean reaching out and making new connections within your community.
We have high expectations for our clients, and you will be given a work plan with targets. We support you throughout, but you need to be comfortable working towards them and managing your team to do the same.
We would love it if you had these:
About Us
At Enable we believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities.
We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:
Starting a career with Enable is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity’s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.
Enable is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.
The RSSW is a key role within Fair Deal which has been developed in order to provide skilled direct support to individuals with very complex and varied needs, including behaviour that challenges. The RSSW will work in services where alternatives to traditional models of care may be explored and implemented.
In addition to working directly with individuals with complex and varied needs, the RSSW will play a pivotal role in working in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team, families and those being supported to ensure a robust and outcome focussed support plan and guidelines are agreed and implemented.
Reporting to the Team Leader, the RSSW will provide day-to-day support to people within Fair Deal’s services, ensuring that all support provided is of the highest quality. They have a responsibility for ensuring that they fully understand and are able to deliver support as per the individual’s Support Plan and able to follow and develop robust guidelines and Risk Assessments in collaboration with families and other relevant agencies.
Key Responsibilities:
The Individual:
Ability to commute/relocate:
Experience:
Licence/Certification:
Work Location: In person
In addition to a rewarding career, with competitive rates of pay, Fair Deal can offer a wide range of staff benefits including, competitive holiday entitlement, company sick pay scheme, workplace pension scheme and enhanced maternity/paternity benefits.
Please note the post is for permanent night shift however there is an expectation that the post holder will be available for some initial training in daytime hours for the first few weeks in post. There may be a requirement beyond this for occasional daytime training course planned in advance.