Team Leader

TEAM LEADER

Belses Gardens, Glasgow

Salary £34,312 - £37,095 per annum

1 x 37 hours per week

Blackwood are currently looking for a Team Leader to join our Belses Gardens care home in Glasgow.

Are you someone…

• Who can motivate and lead a team of support workers?
• Who can network with external agencies and develop great relationships to achieve service developments and growth?
• Who has excellent communication skills
• Who has strong IT skills and eager to learn more!

As an award-winning innovative care provider, we support people living with physical disabilities and long-term conditions and are committed to helping our customers live their life to the full.

Operating in a 24/7 residential setting, our Belses Gardens Care Home, provides both complex and person-lead care, making sure that our customers receive care and support services that is in line with their personal support plans.

We are looking for enthusiastic, motivated and flexible individuals who can inspire and lead their team to deliver professional, personalised and outcome focused care to customers within our residential care home.

The successful candidate will work with their team to ensure service quality, performance and regulatory standards are maintained, and build strong relationships with customers, their families and other partners.

The ideal candidate must have:

• Experience of managing a care team, ideally within a Care Home setting.
• Experience of motivating a team to deliver personalised, outcomes-based care
• The ability to effectively manage shifts and rotas for their team
• Strong IT skills and a keen interest in using technology to deliver care services
• A relevant qualification (SVQ4), not essential as training will be given
• Flexibility to work on a rota basis, including early mornings, evenings and weekends.

Blackwood offers a range of employee benefits, including:

• Enhanced Well-being package including 24 hour GP service, physiotherapy and mental health support
• Travel expenses and paid travel time
• Fully funded SVQ training on completion of probationary period
• Company sick pay scheme on completion of probationary period
• 34 days’ holiday per annum, pro rata for part-time hours
• Company pension scheme and other benefits
• Payment of PVG and SSSC registration

We ask that all applicants read the Job Pack available on the vacancy page on our website. All successful candidates will be required to become a PVG scheme member as well as register with the SSSC.

Blackwood are committed to diversity and inclusion and as an accredited Disability Confident Employer, we will interview all disabled candidates who meet the minimum requirements for the post.