Night Care Team Leader

Aster Group; Andover; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Aster Group seeks a Night Team Leader to enhance care quality in their homes. You'll guide a dedicated team, ensuring residents receive exemplary support while upholding high standards. Ideal candidates should possess strong leadership, communication skills, and relevant care qualifications.

Benefits

Colleague wellbeing workshops

Employee assistance programme

Health cash plan

Defined Contribution Pension

Volunteering hours

Savings at various services

Personalised recognition initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience leading a care team.
• Knowledge of Care Quality Commission Fundamental standards.
• Willingness to develop skills post-qualification.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a team of caregivers ensuring high standards of care.
• Promote dignity, respect, and self-directed care for residents.
• Administer medication and oversee Personalised Care Plans.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Compassion

Literacy

Numeracy

Advocacy

Education

Level 2 diploma in Health and Social Care

Willingness to work towards Level 3

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As a Night Team Leader at Enham Trust care homes, you'll be working with residents and the staff team to ensure residents receive a high standard of care. Ensuring the service offered upholds the principles of promoting person centred care and through strict adherence to the Skills for Care Code of Conduct for Adult Social Care Workers in England.

You'll work in partnership with residents encouraging choice, control participation and motivation always adhering to Enham Trust and the Aster Group values, you will have the opportunity to help improve the lives of those in need, where you can make a real positive difference.

This would be a perfect opportunity for you if you are already working in a senior care role, or you are looking to take the next step into a role with more responsibility and greater autonomy.

Supported by the Home Manager, you will take the lead in supervising a dedicated team of caring professionals, working with them to ensure standards of care are maintained at the highest level and that each resident’s individual needs are met.

Night Team Leader shift pattern is 36 hours per week, working 12-hour shifts, 3 Nights per week covering across Monday – Sunday, 8pm - 8am.

About us

We are Enham! Together we have been making a difference to the lives of disabled people for over 100 years and we are looking forward to continuing this for the next 100 years!

Together we explore opportunities with people so they can live the lives they choose by overcoming limitations and expanding possibilities.

Through first class care, personal development, housing options, and employment, we support people to exercise individual choice and control in their lives. We live by our values, TOGETHER we do amazing, we WOW people every day and we dare to be DIFFERENT!

About you

An excellent communicator who has knowledge of the Care Quality Commission Fundamental standards for care homes.

You will be able to be able to deliver care and support to people with complex needs, promoting, dignity, respect, and self-directed care, you'll hold a Level 2 diploma in Health and Social Care and be willing to work towards Level 3 and be able to demonstrate post qualification learning and development.

You will need:

• To have experience leading a team.
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of administering medication. Excellent understanding of Personalised Care Plans
• To have knowledge choice, self-advocacy, and empowerment of individual residents
• Very good literacy and numeracy skills
• To be compassionate and patient Level 2 diploma in Health and Social Care and willingness to work towards Level 3
• To pass our DBS check or be on the update service

Even better if you have previous experience of a care environment, having a knowledge of disabilities, issues relating to physical access and adaption will be advantageous in addition to having a commitment to and understanding of equal opportunities.

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives.

Please note that we are actively shortlisting candidates throughout the duration of the advert, interviews will be held as soon as possible and we will make an offer immediately if we find the right candidate. Apply without delay!

Enham as part of the Aster Group is not a sponsorship organisation and all candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.