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Non-Clinical Unit Manager
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Job Description:
Unit Manager (Non-Clinical)
Location: Fountains Lodge Care Home, 13 - 17 London Road, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells TN4 0RJ
Contract: Permanent – Full Time
Hours: 44 hours per week on a rota basis
Salary: £17.10 per hour
CQC rating: Good
Carehome.co.uk rating: 9.7 / 10
Fountains Lodge provides personalised nursing and residential care to people living with cognitive impairments, including dementia care. The purpose-built home in Tunbridge Wells offers short stays too (including palliative care), to help both carers and their loved ones at times when they need a break or a little extra support.
- All bedrooms are tastefully decorated and offer en suite facilities, while some come with patio doors providing direct garden access.
- It also has a suite suitable for couples.
- The home has its own café as well as lounges and private dining areas for family and friends to come and enjoy when visiting their loved ones or celebrating a birthday or anniversary together.
Situated in Southborough, the home is a few minutes from all its amenities – shops, cafes, restaurants, and pubs, and has good transport and road links, making it ideally located for visiting family and friends.
Staff take great care to focus on the person. It’s important for residents to feel at home, so it creates a friendly environment with an individually appropriate balance of care and independence.
- Enjoying food is an important part of life. The chefs create well-crafted menus made with the freshest ingredients and try to cater for all ethnicity groups. Soon after a resident arrives at Fountains Lodge, staff discuss their personal preferences and dietary needs with them.
- There’s a real sense of community at the home. The staff work to discover what residents enjoy doing and the home's social calendar is organised around those interests. So whether your loved one already has a hobby or would like to take up a new one, there are lots of exciting activities to get involved in.
We make health happen
Here at Bupa we support those when they need it the most. Our care homes are dedicated to delivering person-centred care, supporting independence, and honouring choice to help our residents live their best lives.
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You’ll help us make health happen by:
- Whether you’re taking charge of a unit or a floor, you’ll promote our resident’s independence, choice, and dignity by ensuring that the team provide the highest standards of care at all times.
- With the help of your team, you’ll assess each resident’s wellbeing – making sure their physical, emotional, and social needs are met – always maintaining accurate records.
- Delivering clinical guidance to your team, you’ll lead by example; motivating and mentoring the team to ensure the safe, smooth, and efficient running of the care home.
- You’ll build lasting relationships with the residents and the people they care about, as well as caring about the home itself - fostering a sense of community.
- Creating and developing strong relationships with local partners, you will liaise with these partners, playing an important role in raising the care home’s profile in the local area and beyond.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
- Experienced NVQ Level 5 qualified Care Assistant, or Senior Carer with medication experience.
- You’re passionate about caring for the elderly and infirm (change as necessary) and have a flair for helping people maintain their independence, choice, and dignity.
- An effective communicator who’s able to build strong and honest relationships with residents and their families.
- Someone who’s ready to use their experience to lead, motivate, and mentor a team – who’s able to delegate effectively and promote excellent customer service and relationships.
- A respectful and compassionate team player with the belief in giving your personal best.
Benefits
Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social, and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.
Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:
- My Healthcare - Free access to 24/7 support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP appointments, physiotherapy, and mental health support.
- Annual allowance which you can redeem against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350.
- Wagestream - Have early access to up to 40% of your earned wages within minutes.
- 28 days holiday.
- We offer a sick pay scheme to our frontline teams, as an addition to statutory sick pay, to help provide some reassurance and financial support during longer absences.
- Long service - For every milestone at Bupa we will reward you with ecards, extra holidays, and money!
- Free meal on every shift.
- Interest-free annual travel loan to enable the purchase of public transport annual season tickets.
- We offer a range of Bupa pension plans - find out more on our career site.
- Parental leave - We have schemes for adoption, birth parents, and co-parents - find out more on our career site.
- Menopause Plan - Specifically designed to empower women to seek advice, choose their treatment, and take control of their health.
- Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK.
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Why Bupa?
We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring, and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role.
We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Time Type:
Full time
Job Area:
Care Home – Care Assistants
Locations:
Fountains Lodge
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