Job Title: Field Care Supervisor
Location: Dartford
Salary: £19,800pa
Hours: 30 hours per week, Monday to Friday with on-call responsibility and flexibility required to support the needs of the business
Life at Prestige:
People are at the very heart of Prestige, and we want to make life better for them. As a Field Care Supervisor, you'll grow and develop in an exciting business that puts people at the centre of everything we do.
Prestige Nursing & Care has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 30 local offices in England and Scotland. Our aim is to lead the care industry by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services to our clients.
Your role at Prestige:
We are looking for a dynamic and independent care sector professional with solid care and supervisory experience and a flexible, enthusiastic and can-do attitude to join the Dartford Branch as a Field Care Supervisor.
As Field Care Supervisor you will work under the direction of the Field Care Manager or Care Planner and Branch Manager, implementing systems to ensure that a domiciliary care service is delivered meeting and exceeding legislative standards, and in accordance with company equal opportunities and health & safety policy
Responsibilities:
- To undertake domiciliary care risk and manual handling assessments on new clients/service users prior to the provision of a domiciliary care service
- To maintain an effective system in consultation with the Field Care Manager or Care Planner and Branch Manager for quality assurance management based on the outcomes for service users, in which standards and indicators to be achieved are clearly defined and monitored on a continuous basis.
- To meet domiciliary care workers formally on a one-to-one basis for the purposes of direct supervision at least quarterly and keep written records on the content and outcome of each meeting.
- To assist the Field Care Manager or Care Planner and Branch Manager with the delivery of a care assistants' development and training programme to ensure members are able to fulfil and meet the changing needs of clients and service users.
- To participate in an on-call roster providing and co-coordinating cover for unplanned absence to maintain the service.
Skills and qualifications we're looking for:
- Experience of supervising others within a Health Care setting
- Articulate with the ability to put across ideas succinctly and clearly
- Holding a valid UK driving licence and access to a car is desirable, however other travel arrangements are possible and will be taken into consideration
- Excellent assessment skills
- Office based role with a requirement to visit clients in their own homes so experience of working on own initiative - self-starter, able to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively.
- Demonstrates the behaviors associated with Prestige Nursing & Care's values
What we offer:
- A competitive salary
- 28 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years' service
- An additional day off for your Birthday
- Blue Light Card
- Refer with the Care Friends mobile app and earn extra money
- Cycle to Work scheme for our Head Office, Regional and Branch colleagues
- Long Service Awards
- Workplace Pension
- Employee assistance programme (EAP) - confidential phone line and online support and resources available to you and your loved ones 24/7
- A range of Family Friendly Benefits - designed to offer you more support, flexibility, and additional time off when you most need it.
- Annual leave purchase (ALP) scheme
- Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities.
- A friendly, agile and flexible working culture
Please note:
In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced DBS/PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. You may be asked to provide your employment details through HMRC.
Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.
As a private provider of Homecare in the UK, Prestige Nursing & Care are not affiliated to the NHS, as such we are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of any employment Visa at this time.
All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.
We reserve the right to close this position early.
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