Team Leader required for 35 hours per week in Knowsley - driver needed in Knowsley inKnowsley PUBLISHED MON 27 OCT 2025 Jump to job information section

Team Leader required for 35 hours per week in Knowsley - driver needed Job details Posting date: 27 October 2025 Salary: £32,195 per year Hours: Full time Closing date: 10 November 2025 Location: Knowsley, Prescot Remote working: On-site only Company: Alternative Futures Group Job type: Permanent Job reference: ID:1324 Apply for this job Summary Job Title Team Leader Division / Function Operations Reports To: Area Manager Responsible For: Support Workers Job Purpose • To lead and direct a team in developing and delivering person centred service. • Manage resources to successfully deliver service user and contract outcomes. • To develop staff skills and knowledge in delivering high quality services that are designed and delivered to meet the needs of individuals. • To apply the tools of person-centred planning, review, and team development. • Embed a quality assurance framework at a service level. Living our Values • To ensure that staff develop positive relationships with service users, and they actively support individual outcomes. • Work with the team to deliver what is important to the people they support and what they want for the future. • To keep the people supported and those important to them central in the planning and review of their service. • Demonstrating the principles of person-centred practices. • Acting as a positive role model and coach to the team. Principal Accountabilities • To follow the principles of person-centred approaches in all areas of operation. • To be responsible for assessment, planning, monitoring, and reviewing of individual support. • To ensure appropriate information is captured, reported, and analysed. • To lead and manage staff to ensure that the highest levels of performance and standards are achieved and maintained at all times. • To ensure that staff skills, gifts, qualities and strengths are put to best use. • To manage the recruitment of staff • To co-ordinate and deploy staff resources efficiently and effectively. • To develop and maintain a customer focussed ethos at all times and to ensure excellent working relationships with other professionals. • To ensure all staff receive appropriate levels of support through on-the-job coaching, regular supervisions and appraisals. • To ensure staff training and development needs are identified and met. • To organise and facilitate positive and productive team meetings. • To promote and nurture good practice. • To ensure practice in line with company policy, procedure and legislation. • To ensure the service delivery meets the required quality standards. • To promote community connections. • To ensure that all internal and external reportable events are appropriately managed and resolved. • To evidence quality service delivery. • To assist the Area Manager in effect resource management. Please only apply if you meet the below requirements: Essential Criteria Experience: • Significant experience of person-centred planning and review. • Significant experience of supporting people with learning disabilities and mental health needs. • Significant experience of people management. • Experience of leading and managing a staff team. • Experience of undertaking staff supervisions and appraisal. • Experience of partnership working. • Experience of managing resources within agreed budget. • Experience of using IT systems in the management of service and people. Skills & Knowledge: • Knowledge of equality and anti-discriminatory practices. • Excellent time manager who has the ability to plan and prioritise a complex workload. • Ability to inspire and drive person centred principles and practices. • Ability to assess, plan and monitor care and support to achieve individual outcomes. • Ability to engage with service users and their families and carers, to develop positive and trusting relationships. • Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal. • Ability to demonstrate a significant knowledge and understanding of the needs of people with mental health or learning disabilities and be familiar with the current views and best practice. • The ability to lead and manage a team. • The ability to use person centred tools to develop individuals and teams. • Ability to apply policy and procedure in a way that results in quality outcomes for people. • Ability to demonstrate initiative, self-motivation, and resourcefulness. • Effective resource management. • Ability to use ICT for information, performance reporting and communication. Qualifications & Training: • NVQ3 qualification in management or care (or equivalent) or a willingness and ability to complete such a qualification within a set time period. • Training in Person centred practices (planning, review, team development). Other • Willingness to work flexible hours according to the needs of the business and ability to work on call. • Willingness to work 7 days a week including unsocial hours and weekends. With our extended flexible working options, you can also choose to work a 9-day fortnight or a 4.5 day week, supporting our employees with their work life balance. Due to travel as part of the role, we require a driver for this position. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .