Overview
Team Leader (Residential Manager) – Seaview Respite Unit
Salary: £54,476 - £65,184
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks
We are recruiting a Team Leader (Residential Manager) to lead our dedicated staff team at Seaview House, where we provide regular short breaks for children who have disabilities. We aim to provide children with a high quality short break, whilst ensuring they have fun within a safe environment. This is a registered position.
In Edinburgh we are committed to keeping the Promise and our Corporate Parenting responsibilities to ensure every child and young person grows up feeling safe, loved, and respected. We focus on what matters to children and families, listen, and follow through. We understand and act on the impacts of poverty and honour children\'s rights. We are respectful to all those we work with, treating them as unique individuals using our language with care and sensitivity.
Responsibilities
* Lead a team responsible for specific service areas; responsibilities may be adjusted over time by the Head of Service or Service Director based on skills and practice knowledge.
* Be accountable to the Service Manager for the management, professional oversight and organisation of a team offering an integrated range of specific social work services.
* Provide professional leadership, support, and direct supervision to the team.
* Uphold professional values and a commitment to supporting children and young people to remain in or return to their own homes and communities through participation and effective family and community support.
* Apply advanced skills to support and guide the team in pursuing a safe, child-centred approach.
Regulatory and Employment Checks
* This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007.
* The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check.
* Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check.
* An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
Equality, Diversity and Culture
We\'re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work. We recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
Interview Approach and Our Behaviours
We are changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This will help assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working. More information can be found on Our Behaviours pages and related resources.
Salary and Additional Information
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annual increases until it reaches the top of the range. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.
Employer Contact
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