Care Home Community Lead

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Full time
Location: Battle
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Job offered by: NHS
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As a Community Lead within Barchester's Residential Care Homes, you'll help to make residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling, delivering person-centred care and support. You'll lead and supervise a team of Carers and Senior Carers, taking on some clinical responsibilities, and acting as a role model for the team. Main duties of the job

The role of Community Lead will involve recording observations on weight and blood pressure, and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. You'll build key relationships within the home and externally, and be someone residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring, and happy environment. About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of quality care and support services in the UK. They operate a network of residential care homes, nursing homes, and retirement villages, dedicated to delivering exceptional care and support to their residents. Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Community Lead within our Residential Care Homes at Barchester, you'll help to make our residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling so that we can deliver the person-centred care and support they deserve. Always focusing on respecting our residents' independence, privacy, dignity and choice, while leading and supervising our team of Carers and Senior Carers. The role of Community Lead will involve some clinical responsibilities, including recording observations on weight and blood pressure, and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. Across everything you do, you'll be a role model for your team and someone our residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring and happy environment. You will build key relationships within the home and externally. ABOUT YOU

You'll need senior-level care experience to join us as a Community Lead. You'll also have supervised others and developed a good understanding of how to provide clinical care for the older person. We'll look for a Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification. Enthusiastic, tenacious and full of integrity, your caring approach and strong communication skills mean you inspire trust in others. Most of all, you'll share our commitment to maintaining a vibrant, supportive culture that empowers our people to put our residents and their families first. Person Specification

Qualifications

You'll need senior-level care experience, including supervising others and providing clinical care for older people. A Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care, plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification, is required. Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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