Lead Practitioner; Team Leader

Overview

Are you an experienced Health & Social care professional looking for an exciting new role where you can really shine? We have a great opportunity for you in Ayrshire as a Lead Practitioner (Team Leader) on a part-time (20 hours per week), permanent basis across services.

The Role:

As a Lead Practitioner, you'll demonstrate great communication, organisational and interpersonal skills and will lead and inspire your team of Support Practitioners. You'll provide support, guidance and mentor your teams to ensure that they are professional, accountable, engaged and motivated resulting in them delivering first class, high quality care and support. Alongside our Service Lead, you’ll also contribute to ensuring that our service(s) are running within agreed budgets and in conjunction with our contractual requirements.

For a full list of key responsibilities, please see our role profile attached to this advert.

Lead and inspire a team of Support Practitioners. Provide support, guidance and mentoring to ensure professional, accountable, engaged and motivated staff delivering high quality care and support. Contribute to running services within agreed budgets and meet contractual requirements as part of the team alongside the Service Lead.

• Knowledge of what it takes to run an effective service within the Health & Social Care sector
• A passion for and experience of delivering high quality, person-centred care and support
• Sound knowledge of SSSC Codes of Practice and Health & Social Care Standards
• Proven record of building and maintaining positive and professional relationships with supported individuals, their families and other stakeholders
• The ability to lead others and work collaboratively
• Great communication skills; both verbal and written
• A sound understanding of professional boundaries, accountabilities and responsibilities and how they relate to supporting vulnerable individuals
• A commitment to undertake and achieve a SVQ Social Services & Healthcare Level 7 qualification and PDA in Health & Social Care Supervision (if not already attained)

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will need to have a full UK manual drivers licence with a years experience on the roads.

As a Lead Practitioner, you will usually work during office hours Monday-Friday, however, there may be occasions where we will need you to be flexible to work evenings, sleepovers, waking nights and weekends due to the needs of our service. On call duties will also be part of your role on a rotational basis.

Along with hosting our annual celebration to recognise the impact and dedication of our colleagues and the achievements of the people we support, there are additional perks when you join our team:

• Your job actually changes and improves lives – you’ll make a difference in your local community
• We have a culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork
• No uniform – we wear our own casual clothes
• We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons
• We reimburse your yearly SSSC registration fees
• Access to funded qualifications through our SQA approved, award winning Training Academy
• Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities
• Recommend a colleague bonus scheme
• Long service awards
• Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline
• 26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays
• Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave
• Access to lots of discounts, including cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping

Sound interesting? Apply today! We’re waiting to hear from you. For any questions, please contact Caroline Mac Donald on

Successful candidates will be invited to interview on the 17th, 18th and 19th February at our office in Irvine. Successful candidates will be required to join the Protection of Vulnerable Groups Scheme and work towards a relevant SVQ in Social Services and Healthcare with support from our Training Academy.

We are looking to fill this role as soon as possible and reserve the right to close our advert early should we find a suitable candidate before the closing date. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.

Please note:

If you have spent more than 12 months out with the UK (excluding France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain) within the last 10 years while over the age of 18, you will be asked to provide a criminal record certificate from the relevant government/police authority as part of our pre-employment checks.

Cornerstone welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively seeks to increase the diversity of our workforce.