Team Lead

Position Summary 

This position requires you to be available to work any shift

2 YEARS of Behavior Management experience required

The Team Leader is responsible for assisting the Cottage Supervisor in maintaining a functioning cottage. The Team Leader will be under the direction of the Cottage Supervisor and the Director of Residential Programs. Under the guidance of the Cottage Supervisor, the Team Leader will serve as a direct supervisor to the Cottage Life Assistants and will serve as an authoritative force on the cottage. The Team Leader is expected to communicate well with the Cottage Supervisor and keep him/her informed of any potential problems that may pose a risk to the effective operation of the cottage. The Team Leader is expected to serve as a role model to Cottage Life Assistants. The Team Leader is expected to hone and expand such skills as proactive problem solving, supervising staff, handling a variety of tasks, and effectively prioritizing them. The Team Leader is responsible for running the cottage in the absence of the Cottage Supervisor. Other duties include: seeing the basic needs of the residents are met, providing necessary individual attention to the residents, making sure each resident’s treatment plan is implemented properly, communicating and interpreting to the residents the basic philosophy, rules, programs, procedures of the agency, and making recordings on all appropriate forms. 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities 

1. Supervise employees effectively to enhance work performance, praise positive work performance, and develop corrective action plans for any poor employee work performance. 

2. Use effective approaches to solving problems in a timely and efficient manner. 

3. Initiate effective communications and relationships. 

4. Able to assist in training new employees in conducting LSI documentation and utilization of supervisory debriefings. 

5. Anticipate needs of residents and team members in resident and unit activities. 

6.Actively participate in required meetings and in-service training. 

7. Initiate suggestions for improving job duties and developing solutions to individual, cottage and agency wide problems. 

8. Available for consultation with employees. 

9. Participate in physical restraints when necessary. 

10. Anticipate unit need and initiate activities to meet that need.