Hull - Victoria House, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Job Description
Posted Friday 25 April 2025 at 00:00
Hull
Up to £15.75 per hour
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals.Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.
About us:
Victoria House is a beautiful service situated on the bank of the Humber and provides accommodation, support, and care for people with brain injury and complex needs. It is part of Brainkind, a leading national charity, providing innovative care, rehabilitation, and support solutions for people with profound physical impairments, acquired brain injury.
You will get huge job satisfaction from seeing the people you are supporting do more for themselves and live the life they want to live. If you are interested in building a career, we are here to support you all the way on your own journey.
* Brainkind has employed new management to support Victoria House.
* Boundaried, dignified and able to keep own counsel.
* Have genuine empathy for our residents, with the positivity, patience, and resilience to support them through the challenging times of their rehabilitation.
* Enjoy teamwork and take pride in getting a job done well alongside your colleagues.
* Have excellent face to face communication skills and a good standard of literacy.
* Have good time management skills and the ability to prioritise your own workload .
* Have experience in moving and handling including hoists.
* Enjoys providing people with excellent quality care.
* Understands the importance of person-centred night checks, security and providing basic night care support such as repositioning.
MAIN PURPOSE
* To contribute to and have responsibility for providing quality social and vocational support services for service users within a specified group at a specified location or group of locations.
* To lead, supervise and develop a team of support workers to ensure the needs of the service users are met according to their individual support plan in line with company policy and procedures and regulatory standards.
MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
The Team Leader is expected to be fully competent in all aspects of the Support Worker.
* Establish and maintain professional relationships with stakeholders to compliment and contribute to the positive reputation of the company.
* To provide line management to a designated team of staff within a specified group at a location or group of locations within the allocated division.
* To undertake any reasonable traveling requirements to fulfil the tasks and responsibilities of the role. This may include supporting other locations within the Division as required.
* To set and communicate high standards of care and professional conduct within the team supervised.
* To lead and support compliance with Brainkind quality audits.
* To lead and support in health and safety duties as appropriate.
* To contribute information for the accurate notification of incidents/accidents/safeguarding as appropriate.
* Represent Brainkind at meetings and seminars and any other external events, where appropriate.
* Contributing to effective liaison with stakeholders and external agencies with local authorities, families, advocates, GPs, local safeguarding teams, other DT departments and professionals within the realms of Health and Social Care that have an impact on service provision in consultation with senior colleagues.
* To monitor and be responsible for the day-to-day spending at the location, to include Trust and service user monies.
* To empower staff and service users to maintain a homely environment.
* To plan and organise in advance staff rotas to include annual leave, training, and an appropriate skills mix, ensuring that the staff rota compliments service user needs and individual programmes and meets contractual obligations to commissioners. Where applicable to be supported by line management
* Ensure Administration of Medication is effectively managed, audited, ordered, and stored in line with individual service user requirement and Brainkind Policy and Procedures.
* To be responsible and manage in line with local procedures various resources e.g. Walkie Talkies, location keys, iPad, and mobile phones etc.
* To contribute to the recruitment, selection, and induction of support staff.
* To supervise, appraise, develop, and train within a designated group of support workers.
* To contribute attend, plan and participate in staff meetings as appropriate.
* To contribute to, monitoring and facilitation of training.
About you:
* NVQ / QCF level 3 HSC or willingness to work towards within 12 months.
* Previous experience of working in a care setting
* Knowledge of current relevant legislation relating to care standards, health and safety and food hygiene
* Demonstrate ability to be flexible and adaptable in approach, being able to prioritise, plan and organise the workload.
* Ability to contribute to the development of service user plans.
* Knowledge and experience of managing and administering medication
* Ability to use and promote Person Centred Working demonstrating service user outcomes.
* Excellent communication skills to communicate effectively on all levels.
* Literacy skills to meet the requirements of defensible documentation.
* Good time keeping, time management attendance skills.
Rewards
You can look forward to excellent benefits including:
* A competitive rate of up to £15.75 per hour
* 33 Days AL
* Buy/Sell up to 5 days Annual Leave per year.
* Health Cash Plan (from June)
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
* Excellent training and support
* Company Pension
* Long service and staff awards
* Free parking
To join our friendly team, click the Apply Now button.
**Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. **
*All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks*
BrainKind are a Disability Confident Employer. As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. BrainKind is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive organisation. It is a place where we recognise, celebrate, and live our values which includes offering a range of inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support employees from all backgrounds.
Hull - Victoria House, Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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