About this role
Job summary ABOUT THE ROLE 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. 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
Main duties of the job As a Team Leader at Barchester care home, you'll make residents' lives fulfilling with person-centred care. You must focus on respecting independence, privacy, dignity, and choice, while leading Carers and Senior Carers with support from a Registered Nurse or Care Practitioner. The role involves ensuring care plans are meticulously followed for high standards and providing quality one-to-one time for residents. You'll have clinical duties like recording weight and blood pressure, and dressing wounds. Being a role model for the team and a trustworthy figure for residents' families forms a key part of the job. You need senior-level care experience, should have supervised others, and understood how to deliver clinical care for the elderly. A Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care is required, with a willingness to acquire the assessor qualification. Barchester values enthusiasm, tenacity, integrity, and strong communication skills to inspire trust and supports a culture that prioritizes residents and their families.
About us Barchester Healthcare is dedicated to providing quality care, offering a stimulating and fulfilling environment for residents in its care homes. Barchester emphasizes person-centred care and aims to uphold residents' independence, privacy, dignity, and choice. The organization's commitment to high standards is supported by thorough adherence to individual care plans and ensuring that every resident receives quality one-on-one time. The Barchester team is led with integrity and strong communication skills, fostering an environment where residents and their families feel supported and reassured. Barchester Healthcare not only offers competitive salaries but is also known for its generous rewards package in the care sector. This includes free learning and development, automatic enrolment into a profit-share scheme, and various discounts for holiday, retail, and leisure activities. Through their commitment to these values and rewards, Barchester creates a vibrant culture that empowers employees to prioritize residents' care and wellbeing.
Job description 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.
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Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
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.
Employer details Employer name Barchester Healthcare
Address Barchester Healthcare
Stamford
PE9 3TJ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)