Team Leader Children's Residential

🌟 Team Leader – Children’s Residential Home 📍 Tarleton, Lancashire
💷 £14.50 per hour £60 sleep-in
🕒 2 on / 4 off shift pattern
Looking for a role where your leadership genuinely changes lives?
Our client is a leading therapeutic children’s care provider in the Northwest. We support young people aged 8–17 with EBD, high-risk challenging behaviour, and complex needs, delivering consistent, compassionate, trauma-informed care.
We’re now recruiting a Team Leader to lead practice on shift, support staff development, and help drive positive outcomes for the young people in our care.
🔹 The Role As Team Leader, you’ll be a key figure on shift, setting standards, supporting colleagues, and ensuring high-quality care is delivered at all times.
You will:

• Lead shifts and maintain high standards of care and conduct
• Mentor and support staff, including new starters
• Conduct staff supervisions and provide feedback to management
• Act as a key point of contact during shifts and escalate concerns when required
• Act as Key Worker where necessary, supporting individual young people
• Support care planning, assessments, and care reviews
• Organise and participate in activities, outings, and holidays
• Liaise with external professionals and agencies
• Ensure accurate record-keeping and sign off written work
• Promote best practice in line with the home’s SOP and company policies

✅ What You’ll Need Essential:

• NVQ Level 3 or 4 in Children & Young People’s Workforce (or equivalent)
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a children’s residential setting

Desirable:

• Full UK manual driving licence

🎁 What’s in It for You?

• ✔ Paid training & funded qualifications
• ✔ Clear career progression & structured development plans
• ✔ Length of Service Holiday Scheme (up to 3 extra days)
• ✔ Long Service Awards: £200 (2 yrs) | £400 (5 yrs) | £600 (10 yrs)
• ✔ Outstanding Employee of the Year – £3,000 voucher
• ✔ £100 Refer-a-Friend bonus
• ✔ Gym membership & Medicash healthcare
• ✔ Employee Assistance Programme

💙 Our Values you’ll champion every day:
✔ Professionalism | ✔ Respect | ✔ Integrity | ✔ Development | ✔ Equality

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