Support Team Leader

Outside the Box Cafe, Ilkley

30 hours (This will include some weekends and evenings)

An exciting opportunity, helping to transform the lives of people with learning disabilities.  We are growing rapidly and are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic and suitably qualified person to join our team.

Set up and run by award-winning local charity Ilkley Community Enterprise Ltd, Outside the Box (OTB) provides a range of services and activities all designed to enable and support people with a learning disability to lead more independent, fulfilled and healthier lives.  These include OTB community café, OTB Choices and OTB Works; these services currently support around 60 people with learning disabilities (our members) each week.  

As a charity we are relatively small but have expanded rapidly over recent years and have an ambitious plan for further growth and development in the future. We are due to relocate OTB café to substantially larger premises and this will drive and support increased scale and depth of the services we provide and increase the number of members we engage and support.

Adults and young people with a learning disability are at the heart of what we do at OTB: they are our ‘members’ and a critical part of the overall OTB Team. We work with our members, their parents/carers, and others involved in their lives, to help them to fulfil their potential, to learn and achieve their goals. Members participate in OTB café to learn new skills, improve confidence and self-esteem, achieve qualifications, gain meaningful experience of the world of work and as appropriate progress into paid employment.

We have recently restructured the OTB staff team and this role of Support Team Leader is part of the new team that will help sustain and build on the success of OTB to date.  

To lead the Support Team for adults and young people with a learning disability within Outside the Box Café ensuring the delivery of personalised support, learning and development that enables all our members to gain maximum benefit.

The Support Team Leader will be responsible for providing frontline service delivery, providing direct support on a 1:1 and group basis to our members within a busy café, In addition to supervisory responsibility for the Café Support Worker Team,

Working closely with the OTB Skills and Employment Manager, Operations Director and other staff, the Team Leader will plan and deliver Support Worker Team supervision, guidance, rota coordination and leadership, to ensure high quality and impactful support services to all cafe members.

Please see job description and person specification for further information on the role and how to apply. 

Closing date: Monday 23rd September 2019