Overview
We are looking for a supportive, customer focussed team player to join our Community Equipment Service within Adult Social Care as Supervisor.
Westmorland and Furness Council's Community Equipment Service currently holds equipment in 14,500 homes across the area. You’ll be joining the team that works with both Health and Social Care Services to provide, install and maintain Community Equipment to help people stay active, comfortable and independent in their home.
Responsibilities
* Supervision, training and support of the wider team, including our community and buildings-based staff, for example, Operations Coordinators, Maintenance, Warehouse and Driver Technicians, ensuring a high quality, cost effective, service to the people of Westmorland & Furness.
* Promote effective inter-team collaboration and partner with other services to deliver equipment provision.
* Maintain Health and Safety with incident reporting and risk assessments; identify issues and implement solutions; work with your team to improve the service.
What we are looking for
* Effective interpersonal skills; ability to work closely with the wider team, services and partner organisations.
* Awareness of Health & Safety issues, incident reporting and risk assessments.
* Ability to identify issues and implement solutions and drive service improvement.
* Value alignment with the vision: "People living in a place they call home with the people and things that they love, in communities where they look out for one another, doing the things that matter to them."
* The service is a unique front-line role; we are not requiring applicants to have prior experience in Care Services or logistics if you have transferable skills and share our passion to bring our vision to life.
What can we offer you
Working at Westmorland and Furness Council you will receive a variety of benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and other various perks and discounts schemes. For more information about life at Westmorland and Furness Council and what we can offer you, please visit our Careers site.
Would you like to find out more?
For further information about this role, such as responsibilities and essential criteria please view the attachments below:
* Post Specification
* Role Profile
To apply please click the Apply Now link below.
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