Team Leader Care - Ipswich, United Kingdom - Care UK Residential Care Services

Care UK Residential Care Services

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Ipswich, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Exciting opportunity for a Team Leader at Asterbury Place Care home
Hours - 7am - 7pm / 8am - 8pm including alternative weekends.

Pay - £12.09 per hour plus excellent benefits.

If you have NVQ Level 3 and proven experience of caring for older people, and are looking for a rewarding role that comes with excellent training and great opportunities for personal development, join Care UK as a Team Leader and make a real difference.

Being a Team Leader at Care UK:

Team Leaders at Care UK are flexible in approach and have broad experience of caring for others and leading shifts.

They're great at building relationships and inspiring others too.

Collaborating and sharing information and ideas comes naturally to them, as does using tact and diplomacy to deal with challenging situations and quickly resolving them.

Their innovations help to raise standards, while their passion for what they do is second to none. And, they consider it a privilege to be trusted to look after others. Do you have the same sort of attributes? Then we could have just the role for you.

What you'll be doing:

Being a Team Leader Is about acting as a role model by leading and supervising carers day-to-day, working alongside them and completing regular staff appraisals.

It's also about taking responsibility for case managing residents and liaising with families, health care professional and other stakeholders to ensure that the best care plans are created and delivered.

Working closely with nurses to develop the services we provide is an important aspect of the role too, as is administering medication and carrying out risk assessments.

Put simply, it's about making a difference. A real difference.

What you'll need:

Well-organised, IT literate and adept at allocating and delegating work appropriately, you have a proven ability to lead and supervise others and a good understanding of care planning processes.

What's more, you're trained, or willing to train, to administer medication and used to contributing to, monitoring and implementing changes that improve outcomes for residents.

Above all, you have a natural ability to help make the lives of others more fulfilling and want to work in an environment where the work can be hard, but also fun and rewarding.

The benefits:

Competitive rates of pay we continuously review pay in your local market
Opportunities to progress through our personalised career paths into more senior and management roles whilst growing your earnings
Earn whilst you learn and take on a variety of apprenticeships applicable to your role enabling you to increase your pay once achieved
Competitive refer a friend scheme of up to £1000 depending on role
Quality and free training to help develop and enhance your skills
Bank holiday enhancements
Cycle to work scheme
Flexible hours, including day, night or weekend shifts
Free DBS
Thousands of online and instore discounts across big known retailers enabling our colleagues to make big savings on every day shopping such as holidays, supermarkets and travel.

Employee Assistance Programme

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
One of the UK's leading care home providers, Care UK run over 120 homes and day clubs across the UK that provide residential, nursing, dementia and endoflife care for older people. A top rated employer in best quality results, our goal is to help every employee fulfil their potential by providing firstclass training and support._
Fulfilling lives, fulfilling Careers._

Asterbury Place care home provides personalised residential and nursing care for older people 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The care home on Aster Road in South Ipswich also delivers residential dementia care for older people living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

Everything the dedicated team at Asterbury Place do is focused on enabling residents to enjoy a fulfilling life, whatever their needs and abilities.

We work with them and the rest of their family to find out all we can about their life stories, interests and preferences so that we can create care and activity plans that will meet and exceed their needs.