Team Leader - Care

NHS; Beverley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading care home provider as a Team Leader, where you'll lead a dedicated team to provide person-centred care. This role involves supervising Carers, ensuring care plans are followed, and taking on clinical duties. Your leadership skills will help create a reassuring environment for residents and families alike.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday, retail, and leisure discounts

Refer a Friend bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Supervised a team in a care setting.
• Understanding of clinical care for older persons.
• Willingness to undertake assessor qualification.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise team of Carers and Senior Carers.
• Ensure individual care plans are followed.
• Carry out clinical responsibilities including observations and wound dressing.

Skills

Senior-level care experience

Strong communication skills

Integrity

Education

Level 3 NVQ in Health & Social Care

Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care

Job description

As a Team Leader at a Barchester care home, you'll help to make our residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling so that we can deliver the person-centred care and support they deserve. You'll lead and supervise our Carers and Senior Carers, ensuring individual care plans are followed to the highest standards. The role also involves some clinical responsibilities, such as recording observations and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures.

Main duties of the job

The Team Leader role at Barchester Healthcare involves leading and supervising a team of Carers and Senior Carers to ensure the highest standards of person-centred care and support for the residents. You'll be responsible for ensuring individual care plans are followed, and you'll also have some clinical responsibilities, including recording observations and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. You'll be a role model for your team and someone the residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring, and happy environment.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care homes in the UK. They are committed to delivering the best possible care and support to their residents, with a focus on respecting their independence, privacy, dignity, and choice. Barchester Healthcare operates a network of care homes across the country, providing a range of services including residential, nursing, and dementia care.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Team Leader at a Barchester care home, you'll help to make our residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling so that we can deliver the person-centred care and support they deserve. Always focusing on respecting our residents' independence, privacy, dignity and choice, you'll lead and supervise our Carers and Senior Carers with the support of a Registered Nurse or Care Practitioner. We'll rely on you to make sure individual care plans are followed to the letter so that we can achieve the highest standards. You'll also ensure each resident has lots of quality one-to-one time.

The role of Team Leader here also involves some clinical responsibilities, including recording observations on things like weight and blood pressure, and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. Across everything you do, you'll be a role model for your team and someone our residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring and happy environment.

ABOUT YOU You'll need senior-level care experience to join us a Team Leader. You'll also have supervised others and developed a good understanding of how to provide clinical care for the older person. As well as that, we'll look for a Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification. Enthusiastic, tenacious and full of integrity, your caring approach and strong communication skills mean you always inspire trust in others. Most of all, you'll share our commitment to maintaining a vibrant, supportive culture that empowers our people to put our residents and their families first.

REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

Free learning and development Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts Unlimited access to our Refer a Friend bonus scheme

If you'd like to use your leadership and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• You'll need senior-level care experience to join us as a Team Leader. You'll also have supervised others and developed a good understanding of how to provide clinical care for the older person. As well as that, we'll look for a Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.