Team Leader Young Carers inAberdeen inAberdeen PUBLISHED MON 27 JAN 2025

VSA currently have an exciting opportunity available to join our Aberdeenshire Carers Service as a Team Leader working with unpaid Adult Carers across Aberdeenshire. This will be a Full-Time, Permanent position and in return, you will receive a competitive salary and benefits.

VSA's Aberdeenshire carers service, supports adults, children, and young people who care for someone living in Aberdeenshire.

The advantage of our information and support is that we are a local based organisation. We have an in-depth understanding of the people of Aberdeenshire and take a localised approach to all our information and carers services.

We are also network partners with the National Carers Organisations, Carers Trust and Coalition of Carers which keeps us briefed with all matters relating to unpaid carers.

Hours: 35 hours per week

Rate of Pay: £15.75 per hour or £28,665.23 p.a

Location: Flexible approach to working hours- availability to work evening and weekend including residential trips (on a planned basis). A drivers license and access to your own transport is essential for this role.

Locations to be Covered: Aberdeenshire.

We Offer Our Staff Fantastic Benefits Including:

• Company pension
• Employee assistance programme
• Generous annual leave
• Refer a friend programme - Receive £200 when you introduce a family member or friend to VSA,
• Investment in your personal development and career through our learning and development programmes,
• Gain recognised SCQF Qualifications
• Access to our employee discount scheme
  
  

About The Role:

To co-ordinate, sustain and manage appropriate high quality provision for Carers in Aberdeenshire to contribute to the development of strategies for the services’ growth in an inclusive way.  You will make an effective contribution to the provision of appropriate information, advice, support, guidance and access to services and social opportunities for Young Carers in Aberdeenshire, according to their changing needs, working both on an individual and group work basis.  

Responsibilities Of Our Team Leader Will Include:

Supervising and supporting the work of Carers Advisor and Development Workers, and other staff, students and volunteers working with the Service

• Allocation and distribution of work, monitoring workloads and developing strategies for dealing with work which cannot be allocated.
• Taking the lead responsibility for the assessment of potential new service users and their suitability for the project.
• Ensuring the appropriate review of all service users’ responses and progress in the service
• Establishing, maintaining, and developing an effective working environment in respect of working relationships, identifying and minimising interpersonal conflict, and where appropriate implementing VSA disciplinary and grievance procedures.
• Facilitating all the team’s professional development through supervision and support sessions as per VSA policy and procedures, and ensure staff training needs are identified and known to the Training team.
• Taking the lead in the development, monitoring and maintenance of healthy and safe practices in the working environment, and in the development of systems to manage risk to self, service users and staff.
• Effective communication and consultation with Service Users and when appropriate, their families to ensure their involvement in decision-making about developments within the service.
• Representing VSA Aberdeenshire Carers Services at meetings, conferences and on working groups, both locally and nationally, if required.
• Taking the lead for developing partnership working across all disciplines, and raising the awareness of Young Carer issues.
• Carrying case loads of service users as required by the service, under the supervision of the Service Manager and General Manager, Aberdeenshire Carers Services.
• Working with the Marketing, Fundraising and Communications Department, contributing to agency efforts to raise funds to support the projects and in consultation with the Chief Finance Officer, to ensure there are appropriate monitored financial systems in place to support the project.
• Developing professional knowledge and practice continuously through participation in training and development activities and taking part in appropriate training as requested.
• Ensuring appropriate evaluation of Young Carers Services, and contribute to the forming of strategies to sustain and develop them in the future.
• Ensuring and observing the Child Protection Policy as per agency procedures and adhere to the Aberdeenshire Council Adult Protection Guidelines.
• Ensuring and observing the Protection of Child Policy as per agency procedures and adhere to the relevant Policy and Procedure for the Support and Protection of Adults at Risk of Harm.
• Any other duties which may arise from time to time provided they are both reasonable and within the post holder’s capabilities
  
  

Qualifications/Training/Education:

What we are looking for in our Team Leader:

Essential:

• Diploma in Social Work
• HNC/SVQ Level III or equivalent in relevant discipline eg. Health, Social Care or Community/Adult Learning
  
  

Desirable:

• Educated to Degree Level
• A qualification in Community Work, Social Work, Nursing or Teaching Relevant post qualifying training e.g. safeguarding
• Awareness and knowledge of current legislation relating to Adult Protection issues e.g. The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007, and to Disability issues e.g. the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.
  
  

Experience:

Essential:

• Demonstrable knowledge and understanding of Adult Carers Service
• Demonstrable experience of post qualifying work with adult carers and/or Young Carers
• Demonstrable experience of work with adults, in informal and formal groups as well as individually.
• Demonstrable exper