Reference SCW260825
- Area
- Torbay
- Contract
- Full time
- Hours
- Full time, pro rata considered
- Pattern
- Flexible, including covering team leader shifts
- Pay
- £23,500 to £32,500 a year
- Driving
- Licence and use of a car needed
This role runs the care team day to day: making sure the right people are in the right place, that standards hold up, and that support reaches people when they actually need it rather than when it happens to be convenient.
What you would be doing
- Organising the care team around people’s changing needs, and setting out clearly what each shift is expected to do
- Directing, mentoring and supervising the team, and acting as a model of how the work should be done
- Making sure dignity, respect and choice are not just words — that the team works that way every time
- Keeping senior staff informed of any concern or change in someone’s health and wellbeing
- Making sure people have daily opportunities for meaningful occupation and activity, and that the team supports them to take part
- Administering medication where the role requires it
- Driving up standards by upskilling the team through observation and mentoring, and supporting new starters
- Covering team leader shifts when needed, with a flexible working pattern
- Contributing to care planning by passing on what you have noticed about someone’s needs, wishes and changes
- Making sure records are completed accurately and close to the point of care, including how someone has spent their day
- Following safeguarding processes without exception, and monitoring care practice, addressing concerns proactively and documenting them
- Protecting senior staff’s time so they can complete medication rounds and care plan reviews properly
What we ask
- Real experience in care, and the confidence to hold a team to a standard
- Good written records, because other professionals rely on them
- A driving licence and your own car
- The willingness to have the difficult conversation early rather than late
What we offer
- £23,500 to £32,500 a year, pro rata, depending on experience and qualifications
- Fully funded training, including all NVQ levels
- A free company iPhone
- Fuel card, available on request
- Mileage allowance
- Paid holidays
- Refer a friend and earn up to £250
If you would rather talk it through before applying, ring us and ask for an informal chat.
How to apply
You do not need a CV. The application form asks you everything we need, and it opens with this role already filled in. If you would rather talk it through first, that is genuinely fine — ring and say so.
The same on every role
Health and safety
As an employee of MKJ Care Services you have a duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to take reasonable care of your own health and safety and that of anyone else affected by what you do at work, and to co-operate with us in meeting health and safety law. That includes not interfering with or misusing anything provided in the interests of health, safety or welfare, and reporting accidents, incidents and unsafe practice to the right person.
Data protection
You must respect the confidentiality of information at all times, in line with the Data Protection Act. Where the role requires you to obtain, process or use information held on a computer or a phone, it must be done fairly and lawfully, held only for the registered purpose, and disclosed only to authorised people or organisations as instructed by the Deputy Manager or Operations Director. Our data protection policy sets this out in full.
Equal opportunities
MKJ Care Services is committed to anti-discriminatory policies and practices, and we ask everyone who works here to contribute positively to promoting them. Support is delivered in a way that is sensitive to each person’s culture, disability, race, age, sexuality, marital or civil partnership status, transgender status, religion or belief.
Confidentiality
You are required to observe strict and complete confidentiality about information you obtain in the course of your duties, as set out in our policies and procedures. That covers the people we support and their families, and MKJ Care Services itself.
Scope of this description
This describes the role as it stands now. It is not an exhaustive list of duties, and the detail may vary as demands and priorities change. Any substantial change is made in consultation with the person doing the job.
Know someone who would be good at this?
Most of the best people we take on were told about us by someone they know — and if they join us, you could get up to £250 through our refer-a-friend scheme.