About The Company
Our mission is to create a nurturing and comfortable environment where the people we support receive the highest quality of care from our skilled and passionate team. Our services stand out because they reflect our core values.
Our values:
🌟We are Supportive by promoting opportunities for everyone so they can reach their full potential
🌟 We are very Ambitious to provide the best possible outcomes for the people who use our services
🌟 We are Loyal because we put the people that we support and our staff at the centre of everything we do and we deliver on our promises. We also are committed to ensuring that our services are meeting the needs of all stakeholders
🌟 We are Unique because we are ambitious and innovative about the diversity of the services that we provide without compromising quality
🌟 We are Transparent by being open, honest and fostering a culture of mutual respect. We promote a culture where we learn by our experiences, and we are committed to doing things better and setting the highest standards in what we do
🌟 We are Engaging because we work in partnership with the people that we support, our staff and all our stakeholders
🌟 We encourage everyone to experience a Meaningful life by being aspirational and by offering opportunities
Why choose us?
At Salutem Care and Education, we believe that happy employees create a positive impact. That's why we prioritise the well-being of our colleagues and their families. With our Salutem Extras benefits platform, we offer a comprehensive range of perks designed to support you in every aspect of your life. Some of our benefits are:
Emotional Support Benefits:
✅Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 emotional, financial and legal support for you and your partner from qualified counsellors.
✅Hub of Hope - where you have access to the UK’s leading mental health data base
✅Medito App - allowing you to explore how meditation can boost your wellbeing
✅Bereavement support – licensed counselling service, support groups and resources
Medical Support Benefits:
✅Free Online GP – 24/7 access to a qualified GP for you and your household prescribing to a pharmacy near you at a time that suits you
✅Health Cash Plan – for a price of a coffee a week, you can claim back on a range of healthcare expenses
✅Cancer Cover – Our cover can support you with bills, alternative therapies and much needed time out in the unfortunate event of a diagnosis
✅My Menopause Centre – Discounted access to an ‘Outstanding’ CQC provider where treatments are tailored to your needs and information is evidence based
Financial Support Benefits – annual savings per household is over £1000!
✅Wagestream - Where you can receive flexible pay, savings buildings, credit building card, flexible loans at competitive rates, chats with a trusted expert and benefits tracker
✅Freeze your utility bills – saving you up to £329 per year on your energy bills.
✅ Money helper – get a personalised action plan to help you stay on top of bills
✅Life Assurance – protecting you from day one of employment
Physical Support Benefits:
✅Online workouts – easy to follow videos to work out from home or at the gym
✅Cycle to work scheme – with salary deductions, save on tax and NI costs
✅ Gym discounts – no join up fees and up to 20% off gym memberships country wide
✅National trust and discounted days off – wide range of activities for you and your family
Still not convinced?
👍We have been recognised as a Top Employer in the United Kingdom.
👍We have been named as a Top 50 Inspiring Workpace.
👍We are a Disability confident committed company.
👍We employ nearly 3000 colleagues and support nearly 2000 people.
👍We have a high percentage of Good or Outstanding homes and all our children’s home are rated Good or Outstanding.
About The Role
Beaumont College is a very special place. We provide highly personalised pathways for special school leavers, and we support them in the journey to become adults, and to live independent and fulfilling lives as far as possible.
Many students live in, and extend their learning from the College day into life outside a timetable. Area Team Leaders have oversight of a cohort of residents, alongside the staff team who work to support them in fulfilling their potential.
The role of an Area Team Leader can start during a future student’s application stage, including reviewing pre-entry information and supporting overnight assessments and transition-in arrangements. The Area Team Leader will have oversight of the production, review and revision of the care plan, ensuring the requirements for each individual are highly person centred, and staff are supported and enabled to deliver services to a consistently high level. This will include working with the support of a multidisciplinary team of nurses, occupational physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, dietetics and nutrition specialists, assistive technologists and a positive behaviour team.
The role holder will have responsibility to provide oversight, supervision, mentoring and guidance to a staff team, including undertaking practice checks.
Post holders will work shifts alongside their team, although some of their time will be supernumerary to the ratios of support, post holders will provide direct support to students in their care.
Team Leaders will plan and manage rotas, to allocate staff resources based on collective and individual student needs. They will take responsibility to ensure physical resources are maintained and fit for purpose in a well-planned manner. This will include liaison with other departments and that physical resources are used safely and appropriately through the necessary training and competency arrangements.
Post holders will lead on vacancy management, occupancy and compatibility arrangements, oversight of staff training and student transition planning; they will have oversight of any housekeeping budget in line with the financial procedures of the college and Salutem and to oversee the area finances including auditing student’s individual finances. To advise the deputies of any issues that might contravene the college or Salutem financial procedures.
Location: Lancaster
Hours: 37 hours per week (52 week)
Job Responsibilities:
This document outlines the duties required at the current time to indicate the level of responsibility. It is not a comprehensive or exhaustive list and may vary to include other reasonable requests as directed by Beaumont College Managers which do not change the general character of the job or the level of responsibility entailed.
- To work within policies, procedures and guidelines to provide excellence in person-centred care and support for students
- Take part in pre-entry processes to determine compatibility and transition support needs, in consultation with the Deputy Manager for the service
- Devise Person-centred Care Plans using the agreed, preferred software, and ensure training of staff, and competency requirements are met within a well-prepared staff team for each shift.
- Be a named point of contact for residents and their parents/carers
- To provide effective support to the Deputy Manager of the service, the Assistant Principal (Care) and other stakeholders to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of support services.
- Maintain an audit and service inspection ready residential provision at all times maintaining currency with CQC Regulatory Requirements to ensure good or better provision at all times.
- To uphold the Salutem and college values, celebrating individuality through an open and accessible service, supporting and embracing diversity in staff and students in the context of Keeping Children Safe in Education.
- To provide direct line management to staff including undertaking appraisals / PDRs, supervision, practice checks and mentoring. To support and promote staff to deliver sustainably high quality services and support for residents. Use HR Policy to support progression, and to challenge poor or marginal performance to improve services and provide consistency for service users.
- To attend and contribute to Care Leadership and Management Meetings, Area meetings or other meetings where appropriate or required.
- Promote and protect relationships with internal and external stakeholders including education and therapies
- Attend and where appropriate lead or improve the quality of daily handovers
- Undertake the role, duties and training associated with a Designated Safeguarding Officer for Safeguarding (adults and children)
- Ensure compliance in staff training within the area of responsibility ensuring effective use of appraisal/PDR, and practice supervision monitoring.
- To lead the recruitment of staff and on-going staff training development in a timely manner to ensure person centred care is well planned and consistent.
- To participate in activity to support student transition including supporting intake assessments, completing protocols, attending internal meetings and undertaking external assessment visits.
- To monitor students’ individual support plans, objectives and contracts to ensure that these are in place and being effectively delivered.
- Ensure effective communication through a range of approved strategies to ensure staff are provided with current and accurate information in a timely manner
- Plan and monitor the development and revisions of care plans / protocols, including safe and emergency medication across the staff team.
- To ensure multi-disciplinary working and communication with the many different college teams and external professionals.
- To support the college Duty Management function including undertaking a duty management role.
- To write and edit reports or other documents to a standard required by Beaumont College, Salutem or other bodies e.g. CQC./ Local Authorities
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