Team Leader

Are you interested in a rewarding role supporting women on their mental health recovery journey in the community? Are you interested to join an experienced team ensuring a pathway of support for women ensuring maximum independence while enabling 24/7 support in central based accommodation.

We are seeking an individual who has a genuine passion in the social care sector and is seeking to work in services that have recovery based and trauma informed approaches. We have been offering a range of services in these site for over three decades and we are proud to be known to deliver flexible and high quality support. There are a vibrant array of support days based on women’s preferences for social support and when required we use a risk management approach which is bespoke to each person we work with.

You will be part of a wider senior team in South Locality and receive a high level of support, bespoke training and regular supervision to ensure you have the support, knowledge and skills needed. You will have the opportunity to work with other professionals in the sector in this role as you are very closely involved in service user’s day to day lives and support needs.

You will be supported with flexibility, team work and interesting career opportunities.

Essential skills for this role are: Commitment and caring approach;  Calm and clear leadership skills;  excellent communication, assessment skills and ability to make decisions in an open and accountable way; a commitment to ensuring women with mental health needs get the services they require, ability to promote independence for women, a strong listener.

If you wish to discuss this role further please contact Joan Okundaye or Sarah Smith through and we would be happy to explain more about the role

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.

Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.

We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.