Team Leader Care

**Care Team Leader**

**Full Time - 38.5 hours per week**
**Must have a S/NVQ L3 Health and Social Care or HNC/D Care **Qualification or experiencing administrating medication.**

If you have S/NVQ Level 3 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 Leader and 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 after others. 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 carrying out 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 administer medication 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 be hard, but also fun and rewarding.

**The benefits**:

- Flexible pay via Wagestream (withdraw up to 40% of your wage at any time)
- Overtime enhancement (time and a half)
- Earn whilst you learn and take on an apprenticeship (SVQ L2 or 3)
- Quality bespoke training to develop your skills
- Flexible hours, including a choice of day, night or weekend shifts
- Free uniform
- Free PVG (Disclosure Scotland)
- Thousands of online and in-store discounts
- One of the UK’s leading care home providers, Care UK run over 130 homes and day clubs across the UK that provide residential, nursing, dementia and end-of-life care for older people. A top rated employer in best quality results, our goal is to help every employee fulfil their potential by providing first-class training and support._
- Fulfilling lives, fulfilling Careers._

**We provide the best quality care combined with a warm welcome from our friendly team.**

Caledonian Court is a spacious, purpose-built care home in Larbert, near to Falkirk in Scotland. We provide specialist nursing and respite care for older people living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia. We also offer supportive and sensitive end of life care.

Our approach focuses on respect and individuality - we put residents' needs first and make them feel a valued member of our family here. Our warm, friendly team encourages each person to continue making their own decisions and to be involved in the day-to-day life of the home.

We give residents the highest standards of comfort and security, and we're always delighted to see their relatives and friends when they visit. Family and friends are also welcome to join residents in our fun activities or to come along on an outing to somewhere special.