Shift Leader - Children's Residential Home
1 day ago
Kendal
Care Team Shift Leader Salary: £30,122£32,597 + £3,276 sleep in allowance Locations: Kendal and Grange over sands (2 roles available) Hours: Full time, rota + sleep ins The Role Were recruiting a Care Team Shift Leader for a therapeutic childrens residential home. Youll support the Team Leader, coordinate staff, and ensure children receive safe, nurturing, high quality care. Key Responsibilities • Lead staff during shifts to deliver consistent, child centred care, • Ensure childrens safety, wellbeing and positive daily experiences, • Build strong relationships and support behaviour, social skills and life skills, • Contribute to care plans, reports and accurate record?keeping, • Organise activities and maintain a homely, structured environment, • Complete daily checks, logs, household tasks and medication administration, • Communicate professionally with families, schools and external agencies, • Support inspections and quality improvement initiativesRequirements, • Experience working with children in a residential care setting, • Strong understanding of safeguarding, child development and behaviour management, • Excellent communication, teamwork and resilience, • Level 3 Children & Young People qualification, • Full drivi...