Lead Practitioner - Dundee, United Kingdom - Cornerstone Community Care

Cornerstone Community Care

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Dundee, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you an experienced Health & Social care professional looking for an exciting new role? **We've got a great opportunity for you

Due to a promotion within our team, we have a rare and exciting opportunity for an organised and dedicated individual to join our fantastic #TeamFairfield as a
Lead Practitioner on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Role

This is an off-rota role where you'll demonstrate great communication, organisational and interpersonal skills and will lead and inspire your team of Support Practitioners.

You'll provide support, guidance and mentor your teams to ensure that they are professional, accountable, engaged and motivated resulting in them delivering first class, high quality care and support.

Alongside our Service Lead, youll also contribute to ensuring that our service(s) are running within agreed budgets and in conjunction with our contractual requirements.

For a full list of key responsibilities, please see our role profile attached to this advert._

The Service

Fairfield is a well-established, fully staffed and dedicated team where everyone works together to ensure we deliver the best possible support to the nine amazing individuals.

Each individual has their own flat within the same supported living complex, there's never a dull moment at Fairfield, every day is different

About you
**What we'll need you to bring: - **- Experience of managing people

Knowledge of what it takes to run an effective service within the Health & Social Care sector
A passion for and experience of delivering high quality, personcentred care and support
Sound knowledge of SSSC Codes of Practice and Health & Social Care Standards
Proven record of building and maintaining positive and professional relationships with supported individuals, their families and other stakeholders
The ability to lead others and work collaboratively
Great communication skills; both verbal and written
A sound understanding of professional boundaries, accountabilities and responsibilities and how they relate to supporting vulnerable individuals
A commitment to undertake and achieve a SVQ Social Services & Healthcare SCQF Level 7 qualification and PDA in Health & Social Care Supervision (if not already attained)

Shift patterns

As a
Lead Practitioner, your working hours will typically fall within office hours
Monday-Friday, however, there may be occasions where we will need you to be flexible to work evenings, sleepovers, waking nights and weekends due to the needs of our services.

On call duties will also form part of your role on a rotational basis.

Have questions? Please contact Pamela Duell on

If youre successful in joining our team, we will need you to register with the SSSC within 3 months of starting your employment with us.**.