Care Manager
Salary up to £39,000 per annum based on experience
Driver essential with use of own vehicle
This role is primarily home based with travel across Guildford and surrounding areas with occasional travel to London for team meetings.
Join our team as a Care Manager supporting clients and carers helping to drive the smooth delivery of high-quality, safe, and compassionate home care..
We think there’s nowhere better than The Good Care Group to grow your career as a Care Manager, where you’ll receive second to none training and be part of an award winning, and CQC “Outstanding” rated team. We think there’s nowhere better because:
* Great place to build your skills with potential development opportunities across the business - in 2024, over 30% of Head Office positions were filled through internal hires.
* Access to innovative technology for record keeping and medication management means you
* Benefits package: Family friendly benefits including: grandparents leave and enhanced bereavement leave, Holiday buy and sell scheme as well as 2 paid volunteer days
* Level 2 Disability Confident Employer
* Peer lead steering groups, including LGBTQ+, Ethnicity and Culture and Neurodiversity
* Employee Assistance Programme offering confidential advice and support
* 96% would recommend working with us to others on Glassdoor
About the role:
As a Care Manager you will be mentoring and supporting a team of around 35 live-in carers. You’ll help them provide the best 24/7 care possible to around 17 - 19 clients in your region including areas Guildford, Sussex and parts of London. Getting to know every Carer and client, you’re the person our Carers will turn to for advice. You’ll be at the heart of our care, keeping everything running smoothly, providing the all-important link between our clients, Carers, operations team and service centre.
You’ll be responsible for identifying the needs of your portfolio of clients and then creating and implementing a plan of care to meet these needs and bring about positive change. You must have strong planning, organisation and prioritisation skills as well as assertiveness, compassion and empathy.
You’ll have:
* Experience of leading teams in the care sector
* Good planning, organisation and prioritisation skills
* Assertiveness, compassion and empathy
* Good communication skills and the ability to build lasting relationships
* As there will be some travel involved you’ll need to be a driver with your own car and live in or close to the area.
Desirable:
* Level 5 diploma in Health and Social Care, or equivalent
Equal opportunity statement
The Good Care Group and Oxford Aunts is an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be a disability confident, and age diverse employer. To support a fair and inclusive hiring process, we anonymise all applications before they reach the hiring manager to help reduce unconscious bias.
Successful candidates will also be required to undergo a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
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