Team Leader

**Cathkin House Care Home,**147 Glasgow Rd, East Kilbride, Glasgow, G74 4PA

Team Leader - Days (7:45pm to 8am) / nights (19:45pm - 08:00am
Part time hours - 22/27.5 hours per week
Full time hours - 33/38.5/44 hours per week

Working every second weekend + time and a half overtime enhancement
- Pay Rate - £12

Role Highlights
- **Must hold an SVQ L3 Health and Social Care Qualification**

If you have S/NVQ Level 3 or HNC/D Care qualification 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 Leaderand 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 afterothers. 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 carryingout 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 administermedication 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 behard, but also fun and rewarding.

**The benefits**

oFlexible pay via Wagestream (withdraw up to 40% of your wage at any time)

oOvertime enhancement (time and a half)

oEarn whilst you learn and take on an apprenticeship (SVQ L2 or 3)

oQuality bespoke training to develop your skills

oCompetitive refer a friend scheme of up to £1000 depending on role

oCycle to work scheme

oFree uniform

oFree PVG (Disclosure Scotland)

oThousands of online and in-store discounts

oEmployee 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

Where you'll work

**Cathkin House offers modern facilities and a warm welcome from our team.**

Cathkin House is a modern, purpose-built care home in the small village of Nerston, East Kilbride. Our dedicated team provides expert residential, nursing and respite care for older people, including individuals with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

Everyone at Cathkin House enjoys one-to-one attention and care. To help us learn about each individual and their likes, dislikes, hobbies and interests, we work with residents and their families to complete special 'All about me' booklets.

We also hold monthly meetings with residents, to talk about upcoming activities and get everyone’s suggestions about things like our menu. Our manager’s door is always open to residents and their relatives if anyone has a query or question.

Cathkin House has a cosy and welcoming atmosphere, and family pets are very welcome to visit. The home is within walking distance of local amenities and shops, and the village offers good bus connections to East Kilbride and Glasgow.
- Care UK is committed to ensuring that it employs people with the right mix of talent, skills and potential and will assess every applicant fairly regardless of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, responsibilities for dependents, age, physical/mentaldisability or offending background. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent you from working with us, it will depend on the nature of the role and background of any offence._