Assistant Team Leader

Assistant Team Leader
Northfield House

Salary: £39, - £46,
Hours: 36 per week, 52 weeks - involves shift work and weekend working

You will work as part of the management team at Northfield House to ensure young people have the best support, care and guidance, linked to the aspirations contained within the Promise, to reach their full potential.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a leadership team committed to supporting young people. You will have a lead role in supporting and supervising Residential Care Officers as they work with the young people who call Northfield their home.

We are committed to the Promise and Edinburgh's Promise is supported by a plan which is underpinned by 5 fundamentals - what matters to children and families, listening, poverty, children's rights and language. Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility are the foundation for driving positive change in our workplace and support our way of working.

You will support the Team Leader to implement and lead departmental developments within Northfield. You will have the opportunity to be involved in service developments out with the house.

The Team Leader will provide you with ongoing support and supervision which focuses on practice and personal development goals

Experience required;

* Hold appropriate qualifications for "Residential Child Care Workers with Supervisory Responsibility" as laid down by the Scottish Social Services Council

* Appropriate registration for the position with the Scottish Social Services Council. (If Not currently held then this must be achieved within the timescales as laid out by the SSSC

* Direct experience of working with young people who are Looked After.

* Previous experience of working with young people in a residential setting.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act . The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. Anunconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.

Happy to talk flexible working.