Community Care Team Lead - Bridport

TN United Kingdom; Dorchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading home care provider is seeking a Community Care Team Lead in Bridport, Dorchester. This role involves launching a new service, leading a team, and ensuring exceptional care delivery. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and experienced in home care, with strong leadership skills. You will work closely with a supportive management team and have the opportunity for career growth in a respected organization.

Benefits

Paid overtime for evenings and weekends

Full support and training

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in home care or health and social care is essential.
• Must be confident in leading and recruiting a new team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the launch and growth of a new home care service in Bridport.
• Ensure high quality care that responds to customer needs.
• Support and supervise care assistants.

Skills

Self-motivated

Ambitious

Enthusiastic

Confident in leading

Good communication

Organisational skills

Education

Experience in home care

Experience in health and social care

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Community Care Team Lead - Bridport, Dorchester

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Client:

Bluebird Care

Location:

Dorchester, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

17.05.2025

Expiry Date:

01.07.2025

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Job Description:

Ready for a new challenge? We’re hiring a Home Care Team Leader to lead the launch and growth of our new home care service in Bridport.

Bluebird Care is a premium home care provider, known for delivering exceptional, person-centred support. We’re expanding our West Dorset services into Bridport and are looking for a self-motivated leader to grow a new team in a new area.

This is a community-based role, home-based in Bridport - perfect for someone ambitious and driven. In the early stages, you’ll be hands-on delivering care, while actively building your team and leading the development of the service from the ground up.

You’ll be fully supported by our Registered Manager, Director, and dedicated Marketing and Recruitment Team - so while you’ll lead locally, you’ll never be working alone.

About You:

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Self-motivated, ambitious, and enthusiastic about building something new
• Experienced in home care or health and social care
• Confident in leading from the front and recruiting a new team
• Willing to work flexibly, including some evenings and weekends during the initial launch phase

What we offer:

• The opportunity to build and lead a new service in West Dorset
• A community-based leadership role with home working
• Paid overtime for evenings, weekends, and on-call work
• Full support, training and professional development from an experienced leadership, marketing and recruitment team
• Career growth with a respected, premium home-care provider

You will make sure customers receive excellent quality care and support to keep them safe and comfortable in their own homes. Compassion, good communication and organisational skills together with a calm and caring manner are vital for this important role in our company.

Key responsibilities

Support the registered manager:

• With the efficient running of a designated area and the supervision of care assistants
• Make sure Bluebird Care provides safe, effective, high quality care that is responds to each customer’s needs and preferences
• Make sure our services respect customers’ choices and promote their dignity and privacy at all times
• Take part in the company out of hours rota.

Duties

Work well with customers

Prior to each service commencing, carry out with customers (and/or their chosen representatives) an assessment of what the customer needs and what they would like to achieve from their care and support, together with a risk assessment

• Create and agree a written individually tailored plan of care and support that respects the customer’s wishes and promotes their dignity and privacy. Agree appropriate risk control measures to reduce identified risks. Keep care and support plans up to date

Provide the customer and, where appropriate their representatives, with information about the service so they are clear about what to expect and how they can raise any concerns

Keep all information about customers and their families secure and confidential except where policy require you to share to protect the interests of our customers

Work well with staff

Give care assistants appropriate information and guidance to effectively and safely provide care and support as agreed in the care and support plan

Work with the Bluebird Care coordinator to appropriately match care assistants to customers. Attend the customer's first call to introduce the care assistant. Report changes to care schedules without delay to the coordinator, customer and care assistant

Support, supervise and assist with training of care assistants

Take part in the out of hours emergency on-call rota as and when required. Effectively deal with emergency on-call issues e.g. covering calls either directly or indirectly when care assistants are sick or absent. Record emergency calls and pass the information to appropriate parties

Arrange and manage staff changeovers and briefings for live in care assignments in the absence of the registered manager

Quality improvement

Investigate matters relating to the quality of the service and implement improvements

Monitor the performance of care assistants and carry out quality reviews at the customer’s home to make sure the service is being delivered in line with company procedures

Apply Bluebird Care policies and procedures at all times and make sure that accidents and incidents are recorded, reported and acted upon

Work effectively with customers, their families and representatives, other social and health care professionals and managers and staff from Bluebird Care to deliver high quality homecare service.

To find out more about the role or for an informal chat please call 01935 584184

You must be based in the UK to apply for this role. We do not offer sponsorship or visa switches.