Team Leader

Team Leader

Job reference:005234

Salary:£29,977.37

Closing date:24/04/2026

Location:Wingrave

Job Description

Step into Leadership and Help Young Lives Flourish in Wingrave (6–9 Month Secondment)

Are you ready to take the next step in your career and make a genuine difference every day? We are offering an exciting 6–9 month secondment opportunity for someone that is compassionate and motivated to step into a Team Leader role at our residential children’s home in Wingrave.

This is a rewarding chance to build your leadership experience while supporting children with learning disabilities and or autism. Working alongside a passionate team and a supportive Registered Manager, you will help create a home where every child feels safe, valued and able to thrive.

What the role involves

No two days are the same. You will lead and inspire a small, close knit team supporting incredible children in a warm and nurturing home. This secondment offers a valuable opportunity to develop your leadership skills in a real world setting, with guidance and support throughout.

You will:

• Guide and mentor your team to deliver creative, person centred support tailored to each child
• Work closely with families, social workers and professionals to ensure support plans are meaningful and up to date
• Help create a safe, encouraging environment where children can be themselves and grow in confidence
• Develop consistent, positive approaches to behaviours that may challenge, with support from experienced colleagues and your manager
• Take a hands on role in daily care, promoting dignity, independence and choice

About the secondment

This is a full time role (38 hours per week), including a mix of days, weekends and bank holidays. As a secondment, this opportunity is ideal for someone looking to gain leadership and management experience, build confidence in leading a team, and broaden their skills within a supportive environment.

Above all, this is a meaningful and fulfilling opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of young people while investing in your own professional development.

If you are ready to step into leadership, support your team to be their best, and help children grow in confidence and independence, we would love to hear from you.

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What we need from you

You will have experience of supporting vulnerable people, ideally those with a learning disability. You will have managed a team.

You’ll be creative in your thinking and your approach to staff, the people we support and their families, able to inspire and motivate.

You'll need to be well-organised, with a good understanding of budgeting, and be IT-literate.

You must be a driver with your own transport, as you will travel regularly between services in the area, as well as to meetings, conferences and training.

About us
MacIntyre is a national charity which supports over 1,200 people with a learning disability and/or autism.

We were founded in 1966 by the visionary parent of a child with disabilities and have been growing steadily ever since.

We celebrate and develop everyone’s unique gifts, talents and contributions.

Pay and Rewards

We provide a range of benefits to reward and thank our staff which includes:

• Six weeks' annual leave including statutory public holidays
• Workplace Pension scheme – MacIntyre will contribute 3% of your salary to all eligible employees
• MacIntyre Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) to support your health and wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan which provides money back on core health treatments such as: optical, dental, physiotherapy, chiropody (at reduced cost)
• MacIntyre Sick Pay (qualifying period)
• Life assurance scheme offering valuable benefits to your dependents
• MacIntyre Rewards Scheme which recognises and rewards staff
• MacIntyre Perks which offers up to 6% discount off leading retailers including Tesco, Curry/PC World, Costa and many more
• Access to the Blue Light Card which offers thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street for emergency and social care staff.
• Enhanced DBS Certificate (cost paid by MacIntyre)

Training and Development

At Macintyre we fully support your training and development. We know it can be daunting to start a new job, and not everyone learns the same way, so throughout your probation we will provide you with a mixture of eLearning, face-to-face training and mentoring support whilst on the job.

But it doesn't stop there - throughout your career with us you will have access to our own dedicated in house Learning and Development team, Quality Specialists and HR Teams. These teams, along with your Area Manager, will provide you with opportunities to learn and develop professionally as well as enabling and supporting you to achieve professional qualifications and career progression opportunities - all free of charge.

How to apply
If this job sounds like the right fit for you, click on the Apply button on the MacIntyre website, complete some brief details and upload your CV.

Alternatively if you would prefer to complete a manual application form, call usand we will send an application form to you.

Please note: we reserve the right to close this advert early if we have received a sufficient number of applications, so don't delay, apply today.

Please note: We are currently unable to offer sponsorships while we await further guidance from the Home Office. Applications requiring sponsorship cannot be considered at this time. We appreciate your understanding.

Safer Recruitment and Diversity statement

MacIntyre safeguards and promotes the welfare of the children, young people and adults we support. Therefore we work with successful candidates to complete appropriate checks prior to joining.

MacIntyre is committed to promoting equality, encouraging diversity and embracing inclusion among our workforce. We want our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and the people we support. As part of this commitment, our accessibility toolbar allows you a number of options: read adverts in another language (including Welsh for our Services located in Wales), change the font to Open Dyslexia, change the colours, and many others. Just click the button marked “Accessibility” at the top of the screen.

COVID-19 Information

We will take every precaution to keep you and everyone involved safe during the recruitment process and your employment with MacIntyre. We encourage all our employees to follow Government advice and get vaccinated against COVID and flu.