Team Leader - Seaview Respite Unit - 11829_1761737156

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 …...

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. As a workforce this means 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.

PURPOSE OF JOB To lead a team responsible for specific service areas. Specific area of responsibility may be changed over time by the Head of Service or Service Director, considering the specific skills and practice knowledge of the post holder. To 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, providing professional leadership, support, and direct supervision to the team. 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, wherever safe to do so is integral to our work approach and this post requires advanced skills to support and guide this approach within the team.

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.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're 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 new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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