About the role
LIVE is an enabling supported employment service, focussed on delivering learning, independence, volunteering and employment pathways for our customers. Our LIVE Team Leader oversees the LIVE sites and staff team, supporting positive risk taking, creative delivery and quality service. This role requires flexibility to travel across sites and to attend meetings in person and using Teams and tech to raise the profile of our team, develop new opportunities and enhance existing ones.
What will you be doing?
Areas of focus for this role are;
- Leading and motivating the team
- Supervising
- Promoting our service and raising its profile
- Representing LIVE in meetings and at events
- Planning and organising workloads
- Problem solving and decision making
- Ensuring health, safety and wellbeing
About you
We are looking for somebody to join our team who;
- Empowers people
- Has a passion for inclusion
- Focus' on solutions
- Coaches and mentors
- Has excellent communication skills
- Is resilient and able to remain positive, especially on tricky days
- Is person centred
- Flexes their approach and resources to meet the needs of the team and service
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)
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