Team Leader - Children's Home

Team Leader - Children's Home

Job reference:005233

Salary:£29,977.37

Closing date:21/04/2026

Location:St Albans

Job Description

Lead a team. Shape young lives. Make every day matter.

We’re looking for a dedicated, full-time (38 hours per week) Team Leader to join our welcoming children’s home in St Albans. This is a rewarding opportunity to step into a meaningful leadership role supporting children with learning disabilities and autism.

Working closely with the Registered Manager, you’ll help guide a passionate, supportive team while ensuring the home remains a safe, nurturing place where every child can thrive.

About the home

You’ll lead a team supporting four incredible children and young people, each with their own unique personalities, routines and interests. From outdoor adventures and community outings to sensory play and celebrating important milestones, no two days are the same. You’ll be part of a close-knit, compassionate team, helping young people build confidence, develop life skills and enjoy meaningful experiences.

Your role

As Team Leader, you’ll support the day-to-day running of the home and step up in the Registered Manager’s absence. You will provide calm, consistent leadership so Support Workers feel confident, valued and connected. You’ll build strong relationships with families, social workers and other professionals to ensure each child’s voice is heard and respected. You’ll create and adapt personalised support and behaviour plans, support recruitment, training and performance management, and maintain high standards in line with Ofsted requirements, Children’s Home regulations and safeguarding practices. You’ll respond promptly and thoughtfully to safeguarding concerns, always putting children’s wellbeing first. You’ll also play an active role in daily life, from morning routines and meals to activities and household tasks.

You’ll work a varied shift pattern including days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays.

Why join us

This is more than a job. It’s a chance to lead with compassion, inspire others and make a lasting difference in young people’s lives.

If you’re ready to bring out the best in others and be a steady, supportive presence for children who deserve exceptional care, we’d love to hear from you.

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About you

You'll be passionate about helping children and young people with learning disabilities and/or autism to live independent lives, and truly believe in their potential. You’ll also be a great team player with experience leading or supervising a team. Your other skills will include:

• Creativity and a genuinely person-centred approach
• Resilience and flexibility when plans change
• Communication and respect for both your team & the young people
• IT literacy, and confidence managing rotas and budgets
• Eagerness to make a difference in children’s lives.

You must also have a full UK manual driving licence & hold a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare.

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.

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

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 us and 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.

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.

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