Care Unit Lead

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

Job summary

A reputable care provider in Bury St Edmunds is looking for a Unit Leader to support the Home Manager in overseeing nursing care. This role involves managing staff, ensuring compliance with care plans, and maintaining high-quality service for residents. Ideal candidates will have previous supervisory experience in elderly care and a strong understanding of care planning. The role also offers an Employee Assistance Programme, ensuring support for staff wellbeing. Join us to make a difference in residents' lives.

Benefits

Employee Assistance Programme

24/7 confidential support service

Qualifications

• Previous supervisory or management experience in elderly care.
• Experience with care planning processes and writing care plans.
• Experience administering medicines.

Responsibilities

• Organise and supervise staff ensuring high care standards.
• Induct new staff and address training needs.
• Conduct staff supervision meetings and maintain records.
• Update care plans and ensure medication administration procedures are followed.
• Liaise with relatives and health professionals for care planning.

Skills

Effective relationship building

Confidentiality

Excellent communication skills

Teamwork

Flexibility

Time management

Result orientation

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