Vacancy - Quality & Outcomes Lead

About Teamwork

Teamwork Trust provides care and support to autistic adults and adults with mental health needs, learning and physical disabilities. We promote a friendly, engaging environment where individuals are supported to progress in line with their own aspirations.

Teamwork is committed to delivering a service that enables people to live the life they choose. We aim to lead in the areas of quality person centred support for an increasing number of individuals in North Northamptonshire.

Job purpose

As a senior member of Teamwork’s staff team, the post holder will lead in the assessment, monitoring and feedback of achievement of person centred outcomes, risk assessment and progression benchmarked against commissioning guidance.

The role requires the post holder to work across our centres, working with members and supporting, influencing and challenging colleagues to utilise a strength based approach to ensure meaningful progression for every individual who Teamwork supports.

In addition to supporting colleagues, the post holder will lead assessment and integration of new service users, working with brokerage and our internal transitions support.

In facilitating member voice, the post holder will also be taking a leading role in attending steering group and member meetings, and will work to produce easy read and easy to access documentation.

The post requires strong influencing skills, the ability to support a variety of people whilst leading by example, supporting a culture of developing our people and creating chances, choices and opportunities.

 

Main duties

• Lead on the development of person centred planning which utilises a recognised auditable framework e.g. RARPA, Therapy Outcome Measures, Skillsbuilder, Recovery Star or other appropriate tool/system to chart progress towards individual outcomes.
• Actively encourage person centred planning where individuals can raise their aspirations and feel safe to explore the life they choose through positive risk taking.
• Be the main point of contact for brokerage, coordinating the assessment and requesting further information/engagement with other provision & services. Working with colleagues to assess suitability and integrate individuals into our centres..
• Work with other team members to put in place PBS strategies which focus on quality of life and improved outcomes for individuals based on their own strengths and motivations.
• Work as part of the cross centre team to support development of services, uniformity in application of a strength based approach to skills development.
• Deliver appropriate training or provide assistance where necessary to staff, develop training offer and support the selection of external training in line with best practice and development in quality.
• Model engagement of members, delivering sessions around personal progress and ensuring service user leadership in as far as possible across the organisation.
• Carry out and implement relevant risk assessments. Arrange specialist care and support assessments. 
• Support the ongoing development of a culture of professional curiosity and being pro-active around safeguarding, raising issues appropriately in the absence of the designated safeguarding lead.
• Lead a culture of effective, timely and accurate reviewing of individual and service records.
• Support the running of the centres by assisting with timetabling, rotas and registers, collection and filing of data and storing securely including using IT systems as needed.
• Provide the day-to-day point of contact for multi-disciplinary professionals and meetings as well as building relationships with relatives and advocates.
• Represent Teamwork Trust at relevant external meetings such as LAP meetings and provider forums.

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Hours per week	37.5 Mon - Fri
Salary band	£26,500-£28,000
Location	Corby, Kettering, Wellingborough
DBS status	This role requires an enhanced DBS disclosure appropriate barred list checks.
Accountable to:	Service Users & Head of Services and Operations

TO APPLY

Please send your C.V. and a covering letter (maximum one side of A4) demonstrating skills, experience and why you would like to be part our team to Sophie Toseland by Tuesday 30th April 2024.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with a view to close the advert when the right candidate is recruited.

Teamwork Trust is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes diversity and encourages inclusion. We aim to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.  

Our recruitment selection criteria and procedures (including the areas or media sources which are used in the recruitment process) are frequently reviewed to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted, and treated on the basis of their relevant merits and that no applicant or employee is disadvantaged by provisions, criteria or practices which cannot be shown to be justified.  

As part of our values, we welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and actively celebrate our employee’s differences.