Overview
Care Team Leader – Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Lead with Care. Inspire Change. Transform Lives.
Langley is looking for a compassionate and confident Care Team Leader to guide our dedicated team in Cheltenham. In this permanent, full-time role, you’ll lead by example, support colleagues and help clients build safer, more independent futures. You’ll work 40 hours per week across three 12.5-hour shifts, including some weekends and participation in the on-call rota.
In return for your leadership and commitment, you’ll receive a competitive salary of £32,694 per annum.
Rewards Package
- Up to 30 days annual leave (after 2 years service) plus Bank Holidays
- Pension scheme, matched up to 8%
- Funded Health Cash Plan including discounts portal
- Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
- Flexible benefits package that can be tailored to meet your individual needs. Such as cycle to work scheme and holiday trading.
- Access to private holiday home getaway in Torquay
- Wellbeing Support – our Employee Assistance Programme including free counselling and legal advice and free online GP service available 24/7
- Menopause support
- Enhanced Maternity Pay
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
About the Role
- Lead the day-to-day running of The Knole, supporting the Registered Care Manager and Deputy Manager and deputising when required to ensure a safe, well-managed service.
- Build positive working relationships with clients, delivering key working sessions, support and resettlement planning to help them reduce reoffending, develop independence and move on successfully.
- Assess and manage risk, maintain security and accurate client records, respond calmly to challenging behaviour and liaise effectively with probation, health, social care and other partner agencies.
- Provide and oversee person-centred personal care, medication administration and care planning, ensuring clients’ health, dignity and individual needs are supported.
- Supervise and support staff, coordinate rotas and handovers, complete reports and referrals, and help maintain a clean, welcoming and compliant service; the role includes on-call duties, unsocial hours and occasional travel or overnight stays.
About You
- You have strong literacy, numeracy and digital skills, plus a relevant qualification—or willingness to work towards one—and complete required training.
- You communicate well, work reliably in a team and stay calm in challenging situations; relevant experience is desirable.
- You share our commitment to helping others, equal opportunities and the Trust’s Christian mission.
If you want to join our team as our Care Team Leader, please apply now as we would love to hear from you.
We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.
A satisfactory Enhanced DBS with adult barred list check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.
This role is eligible for consideration under the Employee Referral Scheme. For further information around the referring principals and scope, please consult the Employee Referral Scheme Guide.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
