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Nurse Next Doors purpose is Making Lives Better through Happier Ageing. We have a mission to help seniors continue doing what they love most. We are not just another homecare company fulfilling daily tasks, we are a company that admires people and seeks to make a difference in everything we do.

We are looking for a Senior Carer/ Field Care Supervisor to join our team in delivering an extremely high standard of quality care to our customers living in their own homes. This is a great opportunity to develop your career in care further and will involve updating care plans and staff records in the office one or two days a week following quality checks as well as continuing to carry out care calls on the remaining days.

We focus on outcome-based support planning tailoring our service to each individual customer and customer service is at the top of our agenda.

Duties will include:

• Work effectively alongside colleagues within the company to ensure the safe, effective and efficient delivery of a flexible, high quality service
• Ensure continuity of delivery of high quality person centred care
• Ensure that safeguarding incidents are reported in accordance with policies and practices
• Identify training and development needs of carers
• Carry out spot checks, supervisions and quality reviews
• Have a commitment to developing others
• Be a proven team player
• Ensure support and care plans are reviewed and updated
• Liaise and communicate effectively with other professionals
• Ensure that customers are fully included in any decisions made in relation to the service they receive
• Conduct risk assessments
• Be flexible to meet the business needs including on-call duties on a rota basis
• Delivering Care

Benefits:

• Free uniform
• Free DBS check
• Local work and Paid mileage
• Pension scheme
• Career progression
• Competitive rates of pay
• 28 days annual leave (pro rata)

Key skills and attributes required:

• Previous experience of working in Health Care is required
• NVQ level 2 or 3 in Health care is preferred
• Caring, compassionate and a good listener
• An energetic, happy person who enjoys forming relationships with all sorts of people
• Happy to offer support with a range of tasks, including personal care, preparing meals, administering medicine, shopping and light household duties
• Able to drive and preferably have access to a vehicle
• Able to motivate and lead others
• Working hours 08:30 - 17:00 (Can be flexible)

Benefits:

• Company car
• Company pension
• Referral programme

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Overtime
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Sutton, Greater London: reliably commute or be willing to relocate with an employer-provided relocation package (preferred)

Experience:

• Home care: 1 year (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Licence/Certification:

• Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Reference ID: seniorcarer