Team Leader

Crewe, CW1

£13.21 per hour

Rolling rota (nights)

About the Role

My client is a well-established provider of high-quality care to elderly residents. Offering 24/7 care for all residents.

In return for hard work and commitment you can expect, in addition to competitive pay and conditions and a range of benefits, to have a high-quality induction and ongoing training and development.

Responsibilities

You will be required to

• Supervise a team of Healthcare Associates and to ensure that good quality care is provided, in accordance with departmental procedures, guidelines and professional standards, ensuring that individual members maintain their maximum potential and independence.
• Uphold the standards of the Company in day to day practice and to represent the Company in a professional and positive manner when dealing with others.

Skills & Qualifications Required

• Working towards an NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care
• Must be able to work as part of a team to cultivate a safe, homely and trusting environment
• Must be able to communicate effectively
• Promote good team working by example and sharing of best practice
• Must be able to relate to the people who live at the care home
• Must be able to work in a professional manner at all times
• Responsible for attending and maintaining ongoing mandatory and other training as required
• A satisfactory DBS check
• Maintain and improve professional knowledge and competence
• Qualification in safe handling of medicines

As a Team Leader you will be responsible for

• Support and training of junior staff members in all aspects of their work in the home, under the supervision of the Home Manager.
• Ensure that tasks are performed that a caring relative might normally carry out. To respond to the physical, personal, emotional, religious, cultural and spiritual needs of the resident.
• Ensure care staff have received a handover either verbally or written.
• Report to the Home Manager or person in charge, any illness of an infectious nature incurred by a resident, colleague, self or another.
• Order, store and dispense medication and ensure correct recording of all relevant information relating to medication
• Complete supervision for care staff
• Completing audits when required
• Review assessment of need and individual care planning consultation with the Home Manager, family and Social Services
• Report on the well-being of residents and liaise with GP's and other professionals as necessary.
• This may include personal care around continence management, bathing, household/domestic tasks, and providing general support in a sensitive and empowering way: ensuring at all times that privacy, dignity and self-esteem are respected
• Encourage communication with residents, to assist the individual in retaining their sense of identity. This may include reminiscence work, life history albums, reassurance techniques etc, under the direction and guidance of the Home Manager, family and other professionals
• Use equipment and aids safely and appropriately.
• Ensure effective, clear channels of communication with other staff and professionals, and to work as part of a team with colleagues to cultivate a safe, homely and trusting environment.
• Respectfully maintain professional relationships and clear boundaries with residents, visitors and staff.
• Honour confidentiality by protecting residents and staff information at all times.
• Continually strive to work in a respectful and tactful way, with regard to equal opportunities, and challenging negative attitudes to; age, disability, ethnicity, religion, gender, class and sexuality.
• Regularly report to the Home Manager any problems, concerns, training needs and other relevant issues.
• Understand and follow policies and procedures.
• Undergo personal supervision and performance appraisals with line manager
• Assist the line manager with monitoring and evaluation of home activities
• Report incorrect use or wasting of resources to the Home Manager.
• Notify the Home Manager or person in charge as soon as possible of your inability to report for duty and also on your return to work for your next shift from all periods of absence.