Job Description
🌟 Team Leader – Shaftesbury Horizons (Poole, Dorset)
Are you a passionate leader ready to make a real difference?
At Shaftesbury Horizons, we’re looking for a dedicated Team Leader to help shape a supportive, inclusive environment where people can truly thrive. Please note this role will be predominantly day work but will include the occasional night shift.
💙 About Us
At Shaftesbury, we believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live a full, flourishing life. Guided by our core values—Open, Enabling, Inclusive and Courageous—we provide outstanding support across adult care, children’s services and education.
Horizons is a residential transitional service supporting up to 13 young adults with physical and intellectual disabilities, as well as associated medical needs. We empower individuals to build independence, develop life skills, access education, and engage meaningfully with their community.
🚀 The Role
As a Team Leader, you’ll play a vital role in the day-to-day running of the service, ensuring high-quality care and support for both the people we support and your team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and supporting a team of care professionals
- Overseeing daily operations of the service
- Promoting independence, inclusion, and wellbeing
- Ensuring care is personalised, flexible, and of the highest standard
✅ What We’re Looking For
- NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or willingness to work towards it)
- A positive, proactive leadership style
- Passion for delivering outstanding, person-centred care
- Commitment to our values and making a difference
Additional requirements:
- Participation in on-call rota (£10 per session)
- Occasional sleep-in shifts (£60 per shift)
- Flexibility to work occasional nights
🎁 What You’ll Get in Return
At Shaftesbury, we know our people are our greatest asset. That’s why we offer a fantastic benefits package:
- 💷 £500 Welcome Bonus (after 12 months, T&Cs apply)
- 🎂 Birthday Off (taken from annual leave)
- 🎉 Recognition & Rewards – including vouchers up to £50
- ⭐ CQC Incentives – up to £50 depending on rating
- 📚 Comprehensive Training & Development
- 🌴 Generous Holiday – 25 days + bank holidays (rising to 28 days + BH)
- 💼 Pension Scheme
- 💬 Employee Assistance Programme
🌍 Why Work With Us?
At Shaftesbury, we believe it’s the little things that add up to a life well lived—friendship, independence, opportunity, and community.
We’re committed to helping the people we support participate, contribute, and feel valued, while creating a workplace where you can grow and succeed.
🛡️ Our Commitment
Shaftesbury is the disability charity that’s committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them.
What makes life liveable is never down to just one thing - it’s the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from a great chat to a challenge overcome, it all adds up – to Shaftesbury.
Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.
Shaftesbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS/Access NI check.
Shaftesbury is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme and to equal opportunities therefore we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.
✨ Ready to lead, inspire, and make a difference every day? Apply now and be part of something meaningful at Shaftesbury Horizons.