Team Leader - Young People

Do you recognise adolescence as a difficult time? Do you have empathy for young people who struggle to navigate the changes? Do you have the creativity, innovation, and drive to lead impactful interventions? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!, We are looking for a Team Leader at Bristol Foyer- supported accommodation for young people aged 16-25. This is a new role which will support our team manager to work collaboratively with young people, colleagues and external organisations to enhance and promote the life experiences and independent skills of young people. You may provide key worker support for some young people through advocacy and 1-2-1 support.

We take a strength based approach, called Advantaged Thinking, in all the work we do; encouraging young people experiencing homelessness to aim high, dream big and fulfil their ambitions.

You will be able to motivate colleagues to be their best; to meet targets and standards; to go the extra mile for young people. We are looking for someone who really cares about the Service, about young people, and who understands the impact of trauma, and how to respond to contextual harm. You will support our practitioners to be resilient and persistent; be solution-focussed; look past challenging behaviours; build positive relationships with young people and those that work with them, and to inspire young people to reach their potential.

You will support the team manager to deliver a highly effective and impactful team; delivering high quality services for young people in need of supported accommodation and support services.

Every day is different; you could be delivering colleague supervision, reviewing a risk assessment, supporting a young person, contributing to a multi-agency meeting or supporting group activities as part of the learning programme.

We want you to be able to bring your own personality. Our young people come from a wide range of backgrounds and we try to mirror that in our staff team.

This role is being offered on a full time, permanent basis, working 37 hours per week on a rolling rota, to include bank holidays and will work one weekend in 4. Bandwidth hours will be 8 am to 10 pm. You will predominantly work at the Foyer, with a flexible approach to hours as team members will work shifts including nights and weekends.

Experience in providing supervision to others.
- Experience of working effectively with young people with diverse strengths, needs and aspirations and an awareness of needs and risk assessments.
- Good leadership skills and a proven track record for delivering good outcomes for individuals.
- An ability to make good quality judgements and sound decisions in situations of increasing complexity, risk, uncertainty and challenge.
- Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures.
- An ability to build sound, productive working relationships with customers, colleagues and partners.
- An Ability to maintain records and write high quality written reports which are suitable for a variety of professional settings.
- Innovative and creative in your ways of working.
- Resilient and flexible in dealing with others.
- An ability to reflect on your own practice.
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.

The most important part of this role is to have pride in your work and have a positive attitude, a proactive approach and the confidence to support a diverse range of young people. You will be able to balance your passion and commitment with good organisational skills, and the ability to maintain professional boundaries., Disability Confident
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LiveWest provides over 40,000 homes to over 80,000 people throughout the South West from Gloucestershire to the Isles of Scilly. We have plans to build over 5,000 homes in the area over the next five years, developing new homes of all tenures including low-cost rent and sale, market rent and sale, and a range of supported housing and intermediate housing products, creating choice and flexibility.

As well as developing new homes, we continue to invest in existing properties and communities. Through the stability of good housing, we place better living for better lives at the centre of our mission both today and for generations to come. At LiveWest we believe in a home for everyone.

Defined Contribution pension scheme - employer contribution of 6% - 9%.
- Discretionary Bonus scheme.
- Death in Service benefit (3 x salary).
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays with service related increase to your entitlement up to 30 days plus an option to purchase extra annual leave.
- Family Friendly policies.
- Health Cash Plan including dental and optical cover (worth up to £1,100 per annum).
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health and Wellbeing programme which includes enhanced sick pay, monthly campaigns, training and yearly flu jabs.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Car Benefit scheme.
- Learning and Development including coaching and professional qualification support.
- Volunteering days.