Are you an experienced and compassionate Care Professional ready to take the next step in your career? Do you thrive on leading a team and ensuring the highest quality of care?
We are partnering with a large, well-known care provider to recruit a dedicated Senior Care Worker to join their committed team. This is a pivotal role where you will act as a senior member of staff, providing essential support to service users and efficiently managing your own care team.
The Role: What You'll Be Doing
As a Senior Care Worker, you will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination and support within the service, helping to maintain professional social care standards. Your key responsibilities will include:
* Team Leadership: Planning, allocating, and supervising the work of your staff team, including conducting formal supervision and appraisal meetings.
* Operational Management: Assisting with rota planning, providing management cover in the absence of the Service Manager/Deputy, and ensuring the safety and security of the building.
* Care Planning: Acting as a key worker for designated service users, leading the compilation, monitoring, and review of person-centred care plans.
* Quality & Compliance: Taking charge of medication management (ordering, administering, and auditing) and assisting in auditing against quality standards and service improvement plans.
* Staff Development: Being involved in recruitment, induction, identifying training needs, and assessing staff for SVQs.
* Promoting Wellbeing: Ensuring a safe, secure, and supportive environment, promoting the wellbeing of all service users with dignity and respect.
You will also be required to undertake occasional "sleep-in" duties.
What You'll Need
The client is looking for a proactive and experienced individual with:
* Essential Qualification: SVQ level 3.
* Professional Commitment: The ability to complete further qualifications such as PDA supervision, PDA medication, SVQ 4, and the workplace assessor's award.
* Core Skills: Basic computer literacy, including experience with Microsoft Office and the internet.
* Registration: Must be registered with the SSSC and be a member of the PVG Scheme.
Important Note: As this role involves working within the organisation's Christian ethos, the successful applicant must possess a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold this ethos. This is an Occupational Requirement.
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.