Field Care Supervisor

Company Description

Location: West Lancashire

Pay rate: £12.50 per hour (weekdays) £13 per hour (weekends) plus 28p mileage

Shifts: Flexible shifts available

What we offer

We’re creating brighter days. Fresh challenges. Exciting opportunities. Plenty of ups, downs and curveballs. With a career as a Field Care Supervisor at Comfort Call, every day will be different to the next. Each will offer you the opportunity to do meaningful and rewarding work that makes a real difference to our client's lives and your career.

Job Description

What you’ll do

The role of the Field Care Supervisor is to support the delivery of the highest quality care support services by carrying out a range of functions in the field, including the assessment and review of individual services and the practical supervision, instruction and support of care workers. Working with care coordinators to support the planning of realistic, effective care worker rotas, with due regard for the particular needs of the individual and the particular skills and attributes of the worker. Carry out regular reviews of individual services, including repeated and renewed needs and risk assessments. Participate as required in multi-disciplinary review of service users’ needs. Shadow new care workers in the field to ensure their competence. Carry out the on-site observation and evaluation of care worker practice as part of routine supervision, in response to particular performance concerns, or as otherwise directed. Field Care Supervisors are expected to spend the majority of their working time in the community carrying out their primary functions, but their role will typically also entail a certain amount of office-based administrative work.

What you’ll get

Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement Death in Service Payment Pension scheme Benefits and Well-being Platform 28 days annual leave  Cycle to work schem

Qualifications

What you need

You would need experience in carrying out initial risk and needs assessments in respect of individual service users, either in the service user’s home or, where required, in other settings such as hospitals or residential/nursing homes. Working in partnership with service users, their family, carers, advocates, healthcare professionals and others to ensure the seamless delivery of holistic packages of individual care support. 

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