Team Leader - Short Breaks Home

About the role

As a Team Leader at Conway House, you will play a key role in leading the delivery of high-quality short breaks care for children and young people aged 8–18 with additional needs. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will support both operational delivery and staff performance, ensuring consistently high standards of care and safeguarding.

You will take responsibility for coordinating and leading shifts, ensuring a safe, structured and supportive environment where children can thrive. Working within Children's Homes Regulations and best practice standards, you will oversee care delivery and ensure that routines, activities and transitions run smoothly. You will be part of a supportive, friendly and dedicated team who are passionate about delivering high-quality short breaks for children with additional needs.

The team works closely together to create a safe, inclusive and nurturing environment, where children can enjoy their stay and families feel confident in the care provided. At Conway House, we value teamwork, respect and open communication. Staff support each other on shift, share knowledge and experiences, and work collaboratively to ensure the best outcomes for children.

Key responsibilities include:

• implementing behaviour and support plans
• managing incidents effectively
• guiding and supporting staff while maintaining a calm and organised approach during busy or challenging situations
• building positive relationships with children, families and professionals
• ensuring consistently high standards of care delivery

To apply for this role, contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk if you have questions about the status of your application. Please note that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.

About You

You will be an experienced and confident practitioner with a background in supporting children or young people with SEND or complex needs, ideally within a residential or respite setting. You will have strong leadership skills and be flexible, resilient and committed to delivering high-quality care.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have experience supporting children or young people with SEND or complex needs, preferably in a residential or respite setting
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills with the ability to guide and support staff
• Maintain a calm and organised approach during busy or challenging situations
• Show a solid understanding of safeguarding, behaviour support and child-centred practice
• Build positive relationships with children, families and professionals
• Be flexible, resilient and committed to delivering high-quality care

We are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities. This role requires an enhanced DBS check with barred list.

Haringey's Offer to You

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. We'll be celebrating all this and more as the "rebel borough" when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

We are committed to ongoing learning and development, and provide regular training, supervision and opportunities to build your skills and confidence in the role. Our benefits package includes:

• Leave entitlement of 31 days plus bank holidays
• Potential hybrid working opportunities
• Health and wellbeing support
• Generous local government pension scheme
• Range of discount schemes across leisure and culture providing financial and money-saving discounts