We are recruiting for a Team Leader, to work within our Young People Services 

Salary: £30,105 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week, predominately Monday-Friday 3pm-11pm, working 1 Saturday in 4 (with a day off during the week), once a fortnight to work a 10am-5pm or 11am-6pm instead.
Location: Young People - Chichester


Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you are able to empower people every day to develop their skills and achieve their potential? Do you enjoy working in an environment where every day is different to the next? Are you wanting to progress your career into management within the health and social care sector?  Then this could be the role for you.

We are looking for enthusiastic, positive and driven individual to join our team. You will manage a team of night workers who work with our clients across Chichester. You will love supporting others and helping them to progress and achieve their goals. Your positive attitude towards your work and your team will help to contribute to a great working environment. You will have a calm and personable manner and be able to handle potentially difficult situations.

Duties will include:

• Work with clients, manager, and team to understand and monitor complex needs of the clients in the services. Lead the team in understanding the need to crisis manage, safety plan with the client and debrief the team post incidents.

• Quickly identify those that are at risk and in need of urgent, specialist support through liaising with service manager and team and to support the manager in engaging a multi-agency approach.

• Liaise between the day and night teams to ensure consistent and effective communication and provide a handover to day staff after each shift

• Manage incidents through the on-call service, emergency services or by providing assistance. This will be part of the on-call service

In order to be successful in this role you will need:

• The ability to enable staff to motivate and inspire clients to make positive life changes
• The ability to forge effective working relationships within a team
• Ability to communicate with a wide range of people using excellent active listening skills to form healthy and constructive relationships
• Good computer literacy skills and ability to make effective use of systems
• Experience of delivering support to vulnerable people including those with complex and enduring needs
• Able to prioritise and manage challenging situations

The benefits of working at Stonepillow:

• Actively supporting those in need in your local community
• Healthcare and wellbeing support including access to in-app virtual appointments with NHS registered GPs and access to a comprehensive Employee Assistance programme with face-to-face counselling
• A medical cashback scheme and retail discounts
• Stakeholder pension, employer contribution of 5%
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

A valid driving licence and access to a car will be essential.

A bit about us:

Stonepillow support and empower homeless and vulnerable people with compassion and commitment to achieve sustainable independence and wellbeing and make positive changes in their lives.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications have been received. 

Early applications are encouraged, interviews will commence before the closing date if suitable candidates are identified

Stonepillow is committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.  All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

• Please view the YP Night Team Leader JD document