Acting Team Leader - Adult Residential Services

ACTING TEAM LEADER – Navan, Co. Meath

Embrace Community Services provides residential support services for adults and children with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and acquired brain injuries.

An opportunity has arisen in one of our adult’s residential houses in Navan, Co. Meath for the position of Acting Team Leader.

The role of the Acting Team Leader is essential to ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality strengths-based service that focuses on our residents’ core interests and encourages their development of new skills.

As Acting Team Leader you are responsible for ensuring our services are built on recognising each resident’s strengths and abilities to support each individual to continue learning and growing socially. 

As Acting Team Leader, you are responsible for providing your team with guidance and support and ensure that they deliver on our promise of a strengths-based approach with our residents.

Your key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Encouraging a supportive and collaborative culture among your team

• Ensuring the ongoing focus on residents’ strengths and uncovering new ways of developing these

• Understanding and delivering on Embrace’s core Vision, Mission and Values

• Assuming management responsibilities in the absence of the Person in Charge

• Fostering the development of team members to become future Team Leads while we support you on your professional journey

Job Requirements:

• Hold or be actively pursuing a Level 7 qualification in Social Care / Applied Social Studies or equivalent OR hold a FETAC Level 5 qualification with 5+ experience in Disability Services

  OR

• Hold a Nursing Degree (be registered in the relevant division of the live register of nurses, maintained by the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)

• Experience in overseeing the supervision of staff would be highly desirable

• Experience in Disability Services would be desirable

• Full driving licence

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

  
  

If interested in applying for this position, please send your CV and cover letter to MARIAN at recruitment2@embraceliving.ie by 5pm on closing date of Friday 17th January

By submitting your application online, you agree that your details will be used to progress your application for employment. If your application is successful, your details will be used to administer your personnel record. If your application is unsuccessful, we will retain your details for a period no longer than two years in order to consider you for prospective roles at Embrace.