Community Care Team Leader

**Field Care Supervisor/Community Care Team Leader**

**Up to £22,000pa**

**BLACKPOOL**

**Life at Prestige**

People are at the very heart of Prestige, and we want to make life better for them. As a **Community Care Team Leader/Field Care Supervisor**, you'll grow and develop in an exciting business that puts people at the centre of everything we do.

Prestige Nursing & Care, part of the Sodexo Group, has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 35 local offices in England and Scotland. Our aim is to lead the care industry by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services to ourclients.

**Your role at Prestige**:
As Community Care Team Leader/Field Care Supervisor you will work under the direction of the Care Planner and Branch Manager, implementing systems to ensure that a domiciliary care service is delivered meeting and exceeding legislative standards, and inaccordance with company equal opportunities and health & safety policy

**Responsibilities**:

- To undertake domiciliary care risk and manual handling assessments on new clients/service users prior to the provision of a domiciliary care service
- To maintain an effective system in consultation with the Care Planner and Branch Manager for quality assurance management based on the outcomes for service users, in which standards and indicators to be achieved are clearly defined and monitored on a continuousbasis.
- To meet domiciliary care workers formally on a one-to-one basis for the purposes of direct supervision at least quarterly and keep written records on the content and outcome of each meeting.
- To assist the Care Planner and Branch Manager with the delivery of a care assistants' development and training programme to ensure members are able to fulfil and meet the changing needs of clients and service users.
- To participate in an on-call roster providing and co-coordinating cover for unplanned absence to maintain the service.

**Skills and qualifications we're looking for**:

- Experience of supervising others within a Health Care setting
- Articulate with the ability to put across ideas succinctly and clearly (good communication skills)
- Excellent assessment skills
- Ability to work on own initiative - self-starter, able to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively.
- Demonstrates the behaviors associated with Prestige Nursing & Care's values

**What we offer**:

- A competitive salary
- 28 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years' service
- An additional day off for your Birthday
- Blue Light Card
- Cycle to Work scheme for our Head Office, Regional and Branch staff
- Long Service Awards
- Workplace Pension
- Employee assistance programme (EAP) - confidential phone line and online support and resources available to you and your loved ones 24/7
- Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities.
- A friendly, agile and flexible working culture.

**Please note**:
**In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced DBS/PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice.**

**Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.**

**All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminatesagainst any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.**

**We reserve the right to close this position early.