Care Team Leader

Good Oaks Home Care; Epsom; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading home care company based in Epsom seeks a Team Leader to enhance their exceptional care team. This full-time role involves overseeing care staff, ensuring quality service, and supporting professional development. Ideal candidates should possess care experience and strong leadership skills, with an opportunity for career progression.

Benefits

Paid mileage

Supportive management

Continuous professional development

Long stay bonus

Referral bonus scheme

DBS and right to work check

Qualifications

• Previous care experience required.
• Ideally some leadership experience or strong desire to progress.
• Valid driver's license and access to a vehicle essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide team leadership and supervision.
• Ensure clients receive quality care.
• Manage team morale and resolve issues.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Time Management

Professionalism

Job description

Join Our Award-Winning Team at GoodOaks that value and rewards the caring people who work with us!

At GoodOaks, we're proud of the professional yet personal care that our carers provide. As an award-winning home care company, we strive to be the go-to provider of quality care by valuing, developing, and rewarding the dedicated individuals who work with us.

We’re looking for a Team Leader to join our brilliant care team in Epsomworking around Surrey, to provide support to your team of home carers to ensure the highest level of care is consistently provided to all our clients.

We work hard to develop care roles into a rewarding career that people can progress in; we offer salaried and flexible contracts, paid mileage and career progression through funded diplomas.

What will you do?

• Team leadership to support your care team including regular supervisions, spot-checks, performance management and auditing
• Ensuring all clients are provided quality care that is respectful, dignified and encourages independence whilst adhering to the support plan.
• Manage team morale, problem solve and resolve issues and/or escalate to the office
• Organise meetings, review and events for your team
• Support the other Team Leaders, new starters, office team and Branch Manager
• Provide care to your own clients and set the highest example to your team
• Ensure regular communications are happening, deliver reports and reviews

Who are you?

• You’re a caring individual with a good work ethic and previous care experience
• Ideally you have some leadership experience or a strong desire to progress now
• You have excellent people and communication skills including in writing
• You’re able to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively so you can best support your team
• You can demonstrate professionalism and can treat people with respect
• You’re reliable and trustworthy and can maintain confidentiality of carer and client information
• You're willing and able to work full time and ideally available to work every other weekend
• You have a valid driver's license and access to a vehicle for work

What do we offer?

• £15+ an hour plus paidmileage

• 35 or37.5 hours per week plus extra for an on-call or overtime work completed

• Supportive, professional and common-sense management and ongoing support

• Pay and benefit package includes paid training, blue light card, paid volunteering and flu jab

• Ongoing professional and personal development, training and progression

• Long stay bonus and referral bonus scheme
• We will undertake a DBS and right to work check prior to you starting.

If you’d like to work for a company that values and develops your career while doing a rewarding, life-affirming job, click the apply button below!

We are an award-winning visiting and live in home care company and pride ourselves on the professional yet personal service that our carers provide.