Team Leader - Daisy Chain

At Daisy Chain, we believe every child and family deserves to feel welcomed, supported, and understood. We’re looking for a compassionate and motivated Team Leader to help create a nurturing environment where children can thrive and families feel truly included.

About the role
As our Team Leader, you’ll take the lead in the daytoday running of the service, ensuring that every child and family who walks through our doors experiences safety, warmth, and genuine connection. Working closely with the Project Coordinator, you’ll guide staff and volunteers, build strong relationships with families, and help shape a service rooted in relational practice and Christian values.

You’ll play a key role in supporting families facing challenges, linking with partner agencies, and ensuring our work reflects the GIRFEC wellbeing indicators helping children feel safe, nurtured, respected, and included.

You will
* Lead daily operations to ensure the service runs smoothly, safely, and in line with CrossReach policies.
* Build trusting relationships with children, parents, and carers, offering support, guidance, and advocacy.
* Support and supervise staff, students, and volunteers to deliver highquality, relational practice.
* Work alongside partner agencies to ensure families receive the right support at the right time.
* Contribute to planning and development, helping shape the future direction of the service.
* Carry out quality assurance, ensuring safeguarding, health & safety, and recordkeeping standards are met.
* Promote our Christian ethos, supporting spiritual wellbeing and contributing to a compassionate, faithbased culture.

What you’ll bring
* Experience working with children and families in a social care setting.
* Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build meaningful, supportive relationships.
* Confidence in leading a small team and supporting volunteers.
* A calm, reflective approach and a commitment to inclusion, advocacy, and relational practice.
* The ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
* An active Christian faith, and the ability to uphold and contribute to our Christian ethos (an occupational requirement under the Equality Act 2010).
* A qualification in Social Work, Social Care, or Early Years. (Desirable)
* Knowledge of child development, attachment theory, and local family support resources.

What we offer
* A role where your leadership and compassion can make a lasting difference to children and families.
* Opportunities for ongoing training, development, and reflective practice.
* A supportive team who share your passion for helping families feel safe, valued, and connected.

If you’re ready to help shape a service where children and families feel truly seen and supported, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and be part of something meaningful.

We also offer you a range of benefits that you would expect from an organisation that support others.

Firstly, there is access to a wide range of exclusive retail and leisure discounts through our rewards scheme and the Blue Light Discount card. We also ensure that your future and that of your loved ones is secured with a generous contributory pension plan and death in service benefit. Balancing work and family are made easier with our suite of enhanced family friendly policies and your health and wellness are prioritised with access to our health cash plan, giving you cash back for a wide range of health treatments. We even have access to a care concierge service to assist you with life's challenges, providing invaluable support when you need it most.

But we also know that your training and development is important to you, and as well as a contribution to your professional membership fees, we are keen to support you in making the right steps to learn, grow and develop in ways that are right for you.

CrossReach has been at the forefront of high quality social care for over 150 years, providing loving care to people of all ages and supporting them to live life to the full whatever their circumstances. During that time, we have worked hard to understand the needs of the people who turn to us for help and with them have been at the forefront of pioneering services which have literally changed thousands of lives for the better.

Today we are one of the largest social care providers in Scotland, with experience across a broad range of services. We are still growing, learning, and improving, thanks to the incredible people we have the privilege to support, and all those who support us. We are part of the Church of Scotland and aim to provide social care services and specialist resources in Christ’s name to further the caring work of the Church to people in challenging circumstances.

As we do our work in Christ’s name the job you have applied for requires you to have a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos. This is an Occupational Requirement under Part 1 of Schedule 9 to the Equality Act 2010.

This post requires you to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme and undertake the necessary vetting checks. You will also be required to be registered with SSSC and it is your professional responsibility to ensure that you meet the standards and criteria for registration.

We have a legal obligation to ensure that we do not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category.

We are committed to ensuring that we attract, retain, and develop the very best people to build a diverse and talented team and we recognise that every individual’s unique background, experience and ability contributes to our success. We aim to create an inclusive and inspiring environment where individuals feel valued and respected and where people can belong, thrive and be their very best, whoever they are.
If you have any queries regarding this role or our recruitment process, please contact the Recruitment team on recruitment.team@crossreach.org.uk

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert prior to the closing date. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

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