Care Unit Lead

Healthcare Homes; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A senior care company in Bury St Edmunds is seeking a Unit Leader to assist in managing nursing care and enhance the quality of service for residents. The ideal candidate will have prior supervisory experience in elderly care, understand care planning, and have excellent communication skills. This role includes staff management, training, and ensuring compliance with care standards.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential support 24/7

Qualifications

• Previous supervisory/management experience.
• Experience in an elderly care environment.
• Understanding of care planning processes.
• Experience in administering medicines.

Responsibilities

• Organise staff and monitor care standards.
• Induct new staff and manage training needs.
• Conduct formal staff supervision meetings.
• Maintain administrative records as required.
• Conduct assessments and update care plans.
• Ensure medication procedures are followed.
• Liaise with relatives and health professionals.

Skills

Effective relationship development

Service delivery improvement

Confidentiality

Written and oral communication

Team collaboration

Attendance and time keeping

Results-oriented

Flexible work approach

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the team as a Unit Leader. The main responsibility of this role is to support the registered Home Manager with the overall management of nursing care within the home, whilst also promoting and maintaining the highest quality of service for our residents through development of person centred care plans.

Responsibilities

• Daily organising of staff, supervision and monitoring of standards and ensure rotas reflect staffing needs across the home.
• Responsible for the induction of new staff and involvement with staff training needs.
• Carrying out the formal staff supervision meetings and ensuring that staff performance action plans are managed to the company standards.
• To ensure that the administrative records are maintained to the standards required by the company.
• To carry out pre-admission and respite assessments and ensure re-admission care plans are updated.
• To ensure that the administration procedures for ordering and dispensing of medication are strictly adhered to.
• To liaise and consult with relatives and other health professionals when devising individual care plans to ensure the plans are person centred, relevant and revised to reflect any changes.

Daily Duties

• Maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Respect the confidentiality of information in line with the requirements of the Data Protection Act at all times.
• Ensure the dignity and respect of every resident is maintained at all times.
• Travel as required within the area and other areas within the company for business and training.
• This list is not exhaustive and you may need to carry out other duties within the remit of the role.

Healthcare Homes offer an Employee Assistance Programme which is immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to include support such as financial and family concerns.

Knowledge and Experience

• Previous supervisory/management experience
• Previous experience working within an elderly care environment.
• Understand care planning processes and have experience of writing care plans.
• Previous experience of administering medicines.

Skills and Abilities

• Develop good and effective relationships with all aspects of the business internally and externally.
• Ability to contribute to, monitor and implement changes that improvement service delivery and outcomes for residents.
• Demonstrate an ability to ensure confidentiality.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Excellent attendance and time keeping record
• Ability to achieve results
• Flexible approach to work and manage, prioritise and work to deadlines