We are recruiting for a Team Leader to join us at Options!
Key Information:
Hours: 40 hours on average per week
Hourly Pay: £14.03 per hour based on 300 hours of commissioned support
(increase at Year 3 and Year 5)
Salary per annum: £29,260.97
Location: Vacancies available in Liverpool and Wirral
Support you will be overseeing: Supported Living
Start date: ASAP (subject to satisfactory employment checks)
Closing Date for Applications: 30th September 2025
Are you looking for a new opportunity and a chance to make a difference? Apply today and start your career at Options!
About Us: A better world for people with disabilities
Through our person-centeredness, Options has been pushing boundaries, changing perceptions and challenging the social care system to enable people with disabilities to have ordinary, healthy, happy and full lives. Through our campaigning, services and original thinking were creating a world where every person feels welcome. You too can make the world a better place for people with disabilities. Campaign, donate and raise awareness.
Our Working Values
We are creative collaborators
Collaboration enables us to think ambitiously and bring new creative energy to the challenge we face. It enables us to think differently, expansively and with enthusiasm for everything we do.
We are courageous advocates
It takes courage to stand by our convictions and do what we know is right, even when everyone else is doing or saying something different. Courage takes vision. We are far from living in a world where people with disabilities are treated equally and fairly, but this disparity is what drives us to do better.
We are passionately committed
We are passionate about giving people with disabilities fulfilling lives and challenging a world that isnt set up for them. We are committed to creating a more helpful future.
We are curious learners
When youre on a mission to make a more inclusive society, having a natural curiosity helps. We encourage learning in all if its forms. Being understanding about the world, the people in it, and what we can do to make it better is vital.
Job Description
Reports to: Development Manager
Role: To lead and manage a team to provide brilliant support to enable people with learning disabilities to lead full and rich lives, taking full responsibility for all aspects of peoples support.
Person/People Supported:
1. Enable people supported to achieve their full potential.
2. Shape the support provided and how it is provided to ensure it reflects peoples wishes, using person centred planning and specifically Essential Lifestyle Planning.
3. Ensure the support focuses on delivery of what people want through developing and managing team action plans.
4. Promote and act within the framework of John OBriens Five Service Accomplishments, and Options Mission, Aims and Beliefs (see attached)
5. Maximise the safety of people supported, staff and the community within the overall goal of supporting them to achieve positive outcomes in their lives (producing comprehensive risk assessments, and MOSTs).
6. Develop and maintain Guidelines for Support, which ensure people are well supported, when anxious or worried (including proactive and reactive strategies).
7. Ensure peoples primary health needs are met, including safe and proper administration of medication.
8. Evaluate the performance of the support against outcomes for people supported.
9. Provide direct support to people, role-modelling best practice.
Staff:
1. Provide clear direction to the team setting goals and objectives reflecting what the person supported wants.
2. Enable staff to achieve their full potential through effective leadership and management.
3. Identify the individual talents and abilities of staff, and reflecting the needs of people supported, develop these through training and development.
4. Develop the individual staff to become a team through training, development and regular meetings.
5. Recruit and induct new staff in conjunction with the development manager.
6. Provide support and supervision for all staff per the Support and Supervision Policy.
7. Manage rotas, sickness, absence, and annual leave to provide fully for people supported and also to ensure staff can have a balanced life.
8. Act as a role model for staff.
9. Manage and direct staff in line with organisations Working Values (Above).
10. Ensure all staff comply with policies, procedures and systems.
11. Develop, implement and evaluate annual Team Action Plans.
12. Carry out disciplinary investigations when necessary.
Finances and Administration:
1. Assist people supported to maximise their income.
2. Manage service income and expenditure, keeping full records of all income and expenditure and monitor this on a monthly basis.
3. Ensure people supported have maximum control over their finances.
4. Ensure all staff fully comply with financial and administrative procedures.
5. Complete a monthly review of actual expenditure against budgeted expenditure.
Management and Organisation:
1. Participate in the on-call system.
2. Implement and work to all policies and procedures.
3. Promote positive relationships with those closest to people supported, and all others helping to support them.
4. Liaise with other professional staff involved in support.
5. Ensure effective communication between all parties.
Self-Development:
1. Develop effective self-management with the assistance of the Development Manager.
2. Attend and participate in all training and development as identified to develop ones own skills, and abilities. (This may well be in addition to contracted weekly hours and up to 15 days per year.)
3. Maintain a constant desire to learn and grow.
Person Specification
Team Leader
Experience
At least one years experience of working in a supported living environment with people with learning disabilities.
A track record of making things happen in peoples lives.
Qualifications
None.
Skills, Values and Knowledge
Positive Value Base and Person Centred Approach - committed to ensuring that people with learning disabilities are valued and enabled to take control of their own lives. To champion this when the going gets tough.
Leadership Skills - demonstrate the ability to set direction, lead staff, to motivate them and to ensure things get done within the context of teamwork and enabling staff. Able to develop and deliver comprehensive and detailed plans.
Listening Skills - able to actively listen to what people supported are communicating, and to design support to reflect this.
Relationship Skills - to get on well with people supported and others around them. To be comfortable and relaxed in their presence, supporting them and involving others in the community.
Positive Role Model - hard-working, motivated, flexible and pro-active, someone who sees what needs to be done, gets it done but can be relaxed about the pace at which some things will happen.
Communication Skills - able to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with strong inter-personal skills.
Integrity - have a clear desire and commitment to working out ones values openly and honestly.
Problem Solving Skills - demonstrate skills in understanding complex situations and difficulties, and work thoughtfully, sensitively, creatively and purposefully to solve these.
Personal Learning and Development -show a desire and openness to learn and develop evidenced through continuous training and development. Be prepared to ask when help is needed.
Driver - a driver with less than 8 points on license. Driver desirable, but not essential.
Summary of Terms and Conditions
Team Leader
Hourly Rate of Pay
Incremental Scale Points
(YR 1 & 2) - £14.03
(YR 3 & 4) - Increase
(YR 5) - Increase
Overtime Paid at the Support Worker rate, unless authorised otherwise.
Sleep-in payments
Where the person we support requires a sleep in, an allowance will be paid per night details of which are held by the Finance Department. Not everyone we support requires a sleep in; therefore, sleep-in payments are not always applicable.
Sick Pay
5 days (one calendar week) full pay per year (after the first 6 months of service) and after a waiting period of 3 days.
Pension Scheme
Subject to eligibility, we will automatically enrol you into our nominated pension scheme after you have worked for us for three months. You can opt-out if you do not wish to be in the Scheme. If you do not opt out, we will deduct your contributions to the pension scheme from what we pay you. Current details of the Scheme and your rights relating to it, and of your and our contributions, will be provided to you separately.
Holidays
28 days, pro rata.
Training
Training and development will be available
Benefits:
Blue Light Discount
Stagecoach Travel Club
Cycle to work
Learn to drive
Employee Assistance Programme
Company pension
Referral programme
Company Events
Casual dress
Company events
Specsavers Eye Care Scheme
How to apply:
If you are interested in joining our team, please hit the apply button. We look forward to hearing from you!
All successful applicants are subject to a DBS and pre-employment checks.
We currently do not hold a sponsorship licence, therefore are not able to offer sponsorship of employment at this time.
If you have any questions regarding this job please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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