Job Description

Supported Living Team Leaders

37 Hours Per Week

Positive Support for You CIC are passionate about providing high-quality person-centred support to adults with Learning Disabilities/ Mental Health / Autism and other complex needs. We support people to build a life in their own home and their community. We ensure a person centred and bespoke service is provided to meet a person's needs.

Our Supported Living Services at Cresswell, on the Northumberland Coast, has been developed in partnership by Northumberland County Council, the Northumberland NHS Trust and ourselves.

We are looking to recruit a new supported living team leader who is flexible, creative, enthusiastic, hardworking and has the drive and resilience to provide excellent support to those individuals we support with complex individual needs to have great lives in their homes and the community. Come and join us and be a part of this exciting project!

Team leaders will 'lead from the front' offering direct support to service users and be practice leaders in Positive Behaviour Support.?This will enable you to identify changing needs of individuals and ensure the staff team are providing consistent support, following routines and PBS strategies, working towards goals and outcomes.

As part of the leadership element of the role you will be involved in rota preparation, formal supervision of staff, completing audits and ensuring support plans and risk assessments are up to date.

You must have at least one year of social care experience and be qualified to at least Level 3 in Health and Social Care. Previous leadership experience is desirable, as is experience of working with people whose behaviour challenges services.

A successful applicant may be eligible to progress to Level 5 diploma in Health and Social Care as part of our dedication to personal development.

Salary 30,667 per annum

(Additional Payments made for sleep-in and on call duties by roster)

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 15.94 per hour

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 12/09/2025