<p> MILESTONES TRUST</p><p>JOB DESCRIPTION</p><p>JOB TITLE: Trainee Team Leader</p><p>BASE: Designated Home/Project or rotational as required</p><p>HOURS: Full Time – 37.5 hours per week (rotational) Flexible as required</p><p>REPORTS TO: Home Manager/Team Leader</p><p>Purpose of Job: </p><p>To work with the Home Manager/Team Leader to provide a high quality service for service users ensuring their holistic needs and aspirations are met.</p><p>To manage shifts in the absence of the Home Manager/Team Leader supervising staff working at a lower level.</p><p>To assist the Home Manager/Team Leader in the assessment of Service Users and associated care plans and risk assessments. </p><p>Key Result Areas:</p><p>Operations - </p><p>1. To manage in the absence of the Home Manager/Team Leader the day to day operation of the home ensuring a homely/safe and happy environment for the service users is adopted and maintained and the provision of support is provided to a high standard. </p><p>2. To foster good relationships with service users’ relatives and within the locality, especially with the local shopkeepers, neighbours and local groups. </p><p>3. To ensure individual care programmes are provided for service users, in liaison with the Support Team. </p><p>Service Users – </p><p>1. To participate in the assessment of support needs ensuring its delivery is carried out and to monitor/evaluate its effectiveness. </p><p>2. To stimulate interaction between the service users by motivating them to take part in their own development by participation in group, occupational, recreational activities and Including community activities where appropriate.</p><p>3. To ensure that the service users obtain any prescribed drugs from their General Practitioner and that the drugs are correctly administered and stored safely.</p><p>Y:JobDescriptions/TraineeTeamLeaderGenericAugust20071 4. To support the development of service user involvement and empowerment in the planning and delivery of care.</p><p>5. To enable service users to comment and complain about any aspect of their treatment or the service.</p><p>6. To encourage the service users, if desired, to make full use of community facilities and to encourage the use of volunteers.</p><p>7. To promote health education and well being of service user group.</p><p>Communication: </p><p>1. To assist in maintaining close liaison between medical, nursing, statutory voluntary bodies, and services within the community.</p><p>2. To liaise with members of the public, visitors and relatives visiting the home.</p><p>3. To liaise with other internal and external support staff across the Trust.</p><p>4. To attend on a regular basis and if required to facilitate Staff Team meetings and to represent the Trust/home at other meetings, both internally and externally if required. </p><p>Personal/Staff Team Development – </p><p>1. To be familiar with the modern trends of residential/nursing support and its associated practices which are appropriate to the service user group.</p><p>2. To fully participate and take responsibility for own development through regular ‘Job Chats’/effective learning and appraisal/performance review systems.</p><p>3. To share responsibility with the Trust for own and professional/career development and use supervision and support of Managers as required.</p><p>4. Provide support with the NVQ process including being an assessor or expert witness for assessing purposes.</p><p>5. To make constructive proposals for change and improvement where appropriate.</p><p>Line Management Responsibilities – </p><p>1. To accept delegated responsibilities of operational unit on a regular basis.</p><p>2. When required, to lead a staff team appropriate to the registration of the Home, allocating responsibilities as required across the whole home. </p><p>3. To ensure the staff team build good relationships with the service users.</p><p>4. To monitor staff work performance effectively, providing support and guidance where necessary and in a timely manner.</p><p>Y:JobDescriptions/TraineeTeamLeaderGenericAugust20072 5. To maintain good working relationships and authority within the house in accordance with Trust Policies e.g. Absence Management.</p><p>6. To ensure all staff are aware of and adhere to the Trust’s Policies and Procedures and involve the Home Manager where appropriate.</p><p>7. To ensure appropriate and efficient use of Home and Trust Resources involving the Home Manager where appropriate.</p><p>8. To assist and support the Home Manager/Team Leader in the induction of staff team members. </p><p>Administration and IT – </p><p>1. To ensure electronic and manual filing systems are adopted in a logical and user friendly manner and appropriate to the Assistant Team Leaders role. </p><p>2. To undertake specific administration tasks as directed by the Home Manager/Team Leader.</p><p>3. To be aware and proficient at all record keeping, care planning, risk assessments, transport, HR, finance, person centred planning (PCP) and Health and Safety.</p><p>4. To work within the Data Protection Act 1998 on the handling of sensitive information. </p><p>Finance –</p><p>1. To ensure that the finance systems for the house are appropriately maintained in the absence of the Home Manager/Team Leader in line with the policies issued by the Finance department and relevant legislation.</p><p>2. To ensure that service users’ monies are maintained and that their resources are spent in an appropriate manner. </p><p>Additional Responsibilities – </p><p>1. To ensure in the absence of the Home Manager/Team Leader that a lead in all matters pertaining to the home as the ‘person in charge’, including in emergency situations, service user and staff issues.</p><p>Policies and Procedures – </p><p>1. To work with Milestones Trust’s Mission Statement, Milestones Trust policies and local operational policies.</p><p>2. To work within Milestones Trust’s Equal Opportunity Policy.</p><p>3. To maintain appropriate records in accordance with local and Milestones Trust Procedures.</p><p>4. To work within the NMC, GSCC and Trust codes of conduct.</p><p>Y:JobDescriptions/TraineeTeamLeaderGenericAugust20073 Health and Safety – </p><p>Under the provisions contained in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, it is the duty of every employee to – </p><p>1. Take reasonable care for themselves and for others at work.</p><p>2. Take responsibility for the promotion of Health and Safety regulations as are appropriate to this area of care.</p><p>3. Co-operate with the Trust as far as is necessary to enable them to carry out their legal duty.</p><p>4. Not to intentionally or recklessly interfere with anything provided, including personal protective equipment for health and safety welfare at work.</p><p>The job description is not an exhaustive list of duties but is intended to give a general indication of the range of work undertaken and will vary in detail in the light of changing demands and priorities within the service and organisation. </p><p>Substantive changes in the range of work undertaken will be carried out in consultation with the individual working within the role. </p><p>Updated – </p><p>August 2007</p><p>Y:JobDescriptions/TraineeTeamLeaderGenericAugust20074</p>