Team Leader

About the role

We’re looking for a Team leader to join our Adult Social Care day services, supporting adults with a learning disability. This is a hands‑on leadership role, ideal for someone who enjoys working closely with people and supporting a small, dedicated team. Our day service supports adults with a learning disability to develop skills, build confidence, and take part in meaningful activities within their community. We focus on being Person-centred, and supportive, making sure people feel safe, valued, and listened to.

You’ll manage a small team of staff and work closely with the Team Manager to keep the service running smoothly. The role requires flexibility, as you may be asked to cover sites across North Northamptonshire Council

What will you be doing?

• Leading the day‑to‑day running of the service
• Supporting and supervising staff, including inductions and ongoing development
• Helping plan timetables and rotas to meet service needs
• Overseeing care plans, reviews, audits, and record keeping
• Making sure health & safety ismaintainedacross the building, staff, and people using the service
• Supporting quality checks, audits, and service improvements
• Making sure safeguarding and policies are followed at all times

About you

• NVQ Level 4 in Social Care (or equivalent) and a management qualification
• Experience supporting adults with a learning disability
• Experience supervising staff
• A good understanding of current legislation
• Strong organisation, communication, and IT skills
• A positive, flexible approach and commitment to person‑centred support

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)