Reporting to the Advice Services Manager, the Team Lead will oversee the effective and efficient operation of their assigned team, ensuring a safe, organised, and professional environment for clients, volunteers, and employees.
As a key member of CA Cornwall’s leadership, you will be responsible for line-managing a team of paid staff and/or volunteers, supporting and coordinating recruitment, induction, training and development, and leading on team-based Health & Safety measures and requirements for the office/outreach locations you oversee.
This role works collaboratively with the Quality of Advice & Technical (QAT) team, to provide the pastoral care and development needs of your team alongside the QAT’s input, feedback, and supervision of team members advice work.
Job Specification
Essential
- Proven experience in supervising or managing staff and/or volunteers, with a strong understanding of pastoral care and line management needs.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and manage teams, projects and multiple operational tasks.
- Good working knowledge of office health & safety requirements and procedures.
- Experience in recruitment, onboarding, and identifying/facilitating learning & development needs.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to adapt interpersonal skills to approach situations sensitively and appropriately.
- Proven ability to build effective working relationship with external stakeholders
- The ability to give and receive feedback objectively and sensitively and a willingness to challenge constructively.
- Comfortable working independently and using initiative to problem-solve, as well as collaborating as part of a wider team.
- Strong IT literacy, including use of Microsoft Office, shared drives, and basic database use.
- Commitment to the aims and values of the Citizens Advice Cornwall, including the ability to create a positive working environment in which equality and diversity are well managed, dignity at work is upheld and staff are empowered and motivated to do their best.
- Ability and willingness to travel and work across multiple locations, where required for the role.
Desirable
- Experience working in an advice, legal, or social welfare organisation.
- Experience/understanding of working within a volunteer-based charity.
- An ability to help build a collaborative ‘one-team’ culture whereby staff and volunteers, as far as possible, contribute their skills, experience, and time flexibly across our service to meet the needs of our clients and colleagues. Therefore, a flexible approach to working and planning would be desirable.
In accordance with our local policy the successful candidate will be screened by the DBS. However, a criminal record will not necessarily be a bar to your being able to take up the job.