Job Description

Team Facilitator (Team Leader)

Thornliebank / Govan

39 hours per week (15 hours on shift support and 24 hours facilitative support managing team remotely)

Are you a driven and motivated social care professional who enjoys supporting individuals to live meaningful lives within their local communities? Do you thrive on new and unique opportunities to improve the lives of people and their families who have complex needs? If so we might have the ideal opportunity for you...

Enable are looking for a Team Facilitator (Team Leader) to join our team in Thornliebank, East Renfrewshire to lead a team of Personal Assistants (Support Workers) for Isla\'s service.-

Isla loves spending time at home, watching her favourite programmes on STV and films, especially any with Colin Firth or Hugh Grant. A fan of the Royal Family, Isla loves to keep up to date on all things royal and is especially looking forward to the King\'s coronation!

Isla also enjoys, on the odd occasion, social activities out with the home however recently this has caused heightened anxiety for Isla and must be planned and managed very well by her staff team. Isla benefits from structure and routine and likes to have a flow to her day and her team members will be committed to maintaining this. Part of your role as Team Facilitator (Team Leader) will be to review and develop support strategies for Isla as well as create and maintain new ones as you get to know her and as her confidence begins to build with her new team.

To lead Isla\'s team successfully, you will be will be an enthusiastic and hands on leader with a good understanding of Positive Behaviour Support strategies and understands the challenges that comes with supporting individuals with complex needs. You will be a resilient person and ideally share some similar interests with Isla.

It is essential you are an effective communicator with a calm demeanour, methodical approach and a can do attitude.

About You

Successful applicants will be able to demonstrate the following:

• Experience working with adults and/or children with complex support needs including learning disabilities, epilepsy, autism and physical support needs.

• Experience in using person centred planning techniques in addition to delivering and leading excellent support practices.

• Strong facilitation skills to encourage staff teams to take ownership and responsibility for the quality of support they deliver.

• The ability to effectively communicate with the people we support, staff teams, families and external care professionals.

• Creating and delivering robust service designs, support strategies and risk assessments whilst managing individual budgets.

• Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise your workload whilst working under pressure.

• SVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent.

• Full driving licence with access to your own vehicle for business use.

About Us

We believe in developing all our staff and we provide an extensive learning programme together with in-house career development opportunities. Training will include:

• Person Centred approaches, planning and thinking
• Introduction to autism
• Epilepsy awareness
• Moving and Handling
• Adult support and protection
• First Aid
• Positive Behaviour Support
• Safety Interventions

In addition we will support staff to achieve their relevant social care qualification within the first 12 months of employment.

We also have an excellent range of staff benefits on offer including but not limited to:

• Health cash plans providing a wide range of health benefits to help people cover the cost of their everyday health care.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Season Ticket Loans*

Starting a career with ENABLE Scotland is the first step towards making a real difference in our award-winning charity\'s mission to help create an equal society for every person who has a learning disability.

ENABLE Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on values, skills and competencies required of the specific roles.

Note: The successful applicant will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) within 6 months of their start date.

*Terms and Conditions Apply

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