Team Leader

Job Description

Murrayside House Care Home, 34 S Beechwood,Corsorphine, Edinburgh EH12 5YS

• Team Leader - Days (7:45pm to 8am) / nights (19:45pm - 08:00am)
• Full time hours / Part time hours
• Pay Rate - £11.68

Role Highlights

• Must hold an SVQ L3 Health and Social Care Qualification or willing to work towards it.

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 UKTeam Leaders at Care UK are flexible in approach and have broad experience of caring for others and leading shifts. Theyre 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 youll be doingBeing 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. Its 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, its about making a difference. A real difference.What youll needWell-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. Whats more, youre 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 benefitsoFlexible 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 skillsoCompetitive refer a friend scheme of up to £1000 depending on roleoCycle to work schemeoFree uniformoFree PVG (Disclosure Scotland)oThousands of online and in-store discountsoEmployee 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 concernsOne of the UKs 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 everyemployee fulfil their potential by providing first-class training and support.Fulfilling lives, fulfilling Careers.

• Where youll work

• Our team at Murrayside care home in Edinburgh offer an impressive range of care, from short-term respite to permanent care for residents living with dementia including residential, nursing and end of life care in a state of the art care purpose build carehome which opened in 2018. Murrayside has 63 en-suite bedrooms and has a cinema room, hairdressers, caf and large spacious living areas.We were delighted to receive a good overall rating by the Care Inspectorate after our routine inspection in November 2019.Based in Corstorphine, Murrayside care home is close to local bus routes and is commutable from other towns around Edinburgh including Livingston and Broxburn.
• At Murrayside, we offer rewarding, fulfilling careers that are full of opportunity.
• We support all our team members with innovative training and clear career paths, and you can enjoy working in a friendly, supportive environment where our residents wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do.

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.

Keyskills :
AdministeringCare PlansDementiaMedicationWellbeing