Team Coordinator - Meadowside

Role Responsibility

Team Coordinator Position at Meadowside in Deal

Meadowside in Deal offers overnight residential stays for individuals with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and/or autism. We are currently seeking a part-time Team Coordinator to join our team for 16 hours per week.

Role Overview: We are looking for a flexible, collaborative individual who shares our commitment to improving outcomes for adults. As a Team Coordinator, you will lead shifts and work as part of a team to provide a nurturing and safe environment that promotes the emotional and physical well-being of adults accessing our overnight residential short breaks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate shift plans and ensure accurate record-keeping (quality assurance)
• Liaise with other professionals and manage care planning
• Perform personal care tasks and provide supervision and support to staff
• Monitor standards of care

Requirements:

• Level 3 qualification in health and social care (or equivalent)
• Experience supporting people with disabilities and complex needs
• Supervisory management experience
• Knowledge of safeguarding practices
• Ability to take personal and professional responsibility for actions and performance
• Willingness to work shift patterns, including evenings, weekends, bank holidays, and sleep-in/night duties

Benefits of Working for Kent County Council: We value our staff as individuals and aim to help you achieve your full potential. Our employment package includes competitive salaries, a range of benefits, and flexible employment conditions to ensure you make the most of your time with us. We offer a generous annual leave entitlement of 27 days pro rata plus bank holidays.

Additionally, we provide professional occupational health services, counselling (Support Line), coaching, and mediation services to help you stay physically, emotionally, and mentally well. Our staff groups offer support and development opportunities for our diverse workforce.

If you are passionate about making a difference and meet the above criteria, we would love to hear from you!

Learning and development is an area Kent County Council is keen to provide, we want you to be the best you can be. That means investing in your development, so you have the right skills and mind set needed to do an excellent job.  

Other rewards open to you at Kent County Council include the Kent Rewards scheme and provides:

- tax saving schemes for Childcare

- cycle2Work scheme

- discounts at Kent County Council Adult Education classes

- discounted high street reloadable cards and vouchers including discount from over 1,200 national and local retailers

- pensions and financial support

This post involves working closely with 16 year olds and over.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This is role is based in Deal Kent, England.  All applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

To be considered for this role, please use the reasons for applying section within the job application to demonstrate your skills and experience relevant to the job description and person specification for the post; applications will be assessed against this.

Interviews will be confirmed but may include written exercise or presentation.

Contact Details

Please call Joanne Neiles, Acting Manager on 07929461424 or email joanne.neiles@kent.gov.uk or Kelly Field, Service Manager on 03000 415026 or email Kellyanne.field@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

Work that works for you and us - let’s talk flexibility!

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.