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Directorate: People Services 
Hours: 37 hours a week 

Salary: Grade G £32,115 - £35,235 a year 
Contract Type: Fixed Term for one year 
Location: Carelink - The Gatehouse, Kedleston Road, Derby 

Are you an excellent Team leader, with the capacity to lead and motivate your team, using a data backed approach to drive continuous improvement? Would you like to make a difference to vulnerable citizens across the city? If the answer is Yes! Then we have the role for you! 

An exciting transformation project “Care Homes Falls Support Service” is being developed between Derby City Council Carelink and Team Up Derbyshire working together in partnership. 

The service will be working with care homes to support them with management of falls and to improve the experience and outcomes for residents who have fallen. 

The aim of the project is to promote falls prevention and provide care homes with falls lifting equipment along with the appropriate training to use the equipment and support them with post fall management. This will involve working alongside care home staff to effectively manage residents who are at risk of falling and linking in with the aligned PCN and MDT to ensure that local pathways of care are embedded, ensuring community based clinical advice and guidance is available when required. 

 We are looking to recruit an individual as a Team Leader to project lead a small team that will engage with care homes to implement and deliver the project outcomes. The individual would preferably have subject knowledge of falls prevention and management approaches. 

The Team will work within the hours of 8am – 6pm Monday to Friday. However, they will be expected to occasionally work outside of these hours, including weekends, to meet the demands of the work and to fit in with care home routines. 

 Who We Are 

Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities. Working for us - Derby City Council 

What We Offer 

You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive: 

• Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
  • 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
  • Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract) 
  • Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts 
  • Tusker Car Benefit Scheme 
  • Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training 
  • Employee Assistance Programmes & Support 
  • Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network 
  • Support for colleagues who are carers 

The Opportunity 

 In the role of Team Leader, here’s an example of what you’ll be doing to make an impact: 

• Joining us with your experience of staff management, you will lead, develop, and supervise staff teams visiting, older, vulnerable, and disabled people in care homes.
  • Developing falls awareness within staff teams.
  • Work as part of a team to support individual care homes with falls care and management.  
  • Acting as project lead to ensure work is planned, documented, and implemented in line with project requirements and timescales. 
  • Developing a comprehensive knowledge of factors that increase risk of falls and ensuring that homes can work effectively as a local partner in care re local Team Up and Urgent Community Response (UCR) developments. 
  • Working within an appropriate supervisory and monitoring framework to provide specialist clinical evidence-based advice, aimed at falls reduction and fracture prevention across care homes. 
  • To carry out quality improvement projects with homes which positively impact Derbyshire and Derby City care homes to reduce the incidence of falls and associated harm. 

About You 

To be successful in this role, you’ll ideally have... 

• Proven experience in leading, supporting and motivating a team.
  •Level 3, Management qualification or relevant experience
  • Specialist knowledge and experience in the assessment, prevention and management of people who are at risk of falling. 
  • Ability to extract and analyze data and formulate reports to improve performance,.  
  • Essential Skills: Communication, engagement, organisational and a wide range of computer skills 
  • A full and current driving license and access to a vehicle for work with business use insurance is an essential requirement of this post (Mileage will be paid) 
  • Enhanced Adults DBS 

Next Steps 

The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on 3 February 2025. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted. 

If you would like to apply for this vacancy, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website. 

Important Information 

 Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below. 

All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job. 

Before you complete your application form please read our guidance on filling in your application form. 

Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification. 

Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to 

redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority. 

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion 

We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility. 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job. 

We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for. 

Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality. 

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at recruitmentteam@derby.gov.uk. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/

Please see Job Description here

Please see Person Specification here

Please see DBS Code of Conduct here