Field Care Supervisor

Company Description

Field Care Supervisor

Location: Barnstaple - EX31 3TA

Contract type: Part Time – 20 Hours

Salary: £13,258 per annum

Job Description

The role of the Field Care Supervisor is to support the delivery of the highest quality care support services by carrying out a range of functions in the field, including the assessment and review of individual services and the practical supervision, instruction and support of care workers.

Working with Care Coordinators to support the planning of realistic, effective care worker rotas, with due regard for the particular needs of the individual and the particular skills and attributes of the worker. Carrying out regular reviews of individual services, including repeated and renewed needs and risk assessments. Participate as required in multi-disciplinary review of service users’ needs.

Shadow new care workers in the field to ensure their competence. Carry out on-site observation and evaluation of care worker practice as part of routine supervision, in response to particular performance concerns, or as otherwise directed.

Field Care Supervisors are expected to spend the majority of their working time in the community carrying out their primary functions, but their role will typically also entail a certain amount of office-based administrative work.

Qualifications

Experience in carrying out initial risk and needs assessments in respect of individual service users, either in the service user’s home or, where required, in other settings such as hospitals or residential/nursing homes; work in partnership with service users, their family, carers, advocates, healthcare professionals and others to ensure the seamless delivery of holistic packages of individual care support.

Benefits

We offer thorough training and the opportunity to develop through self-directed learning, coaching conversations, e-learning modules and access to further qualifications and courses. You'll have the support to develop your career, either within your branch or the wider City & County Healthcare Group. We'll also empower you to feel proud of the impactful and meaningful work that you do.

We'll reward you with a benefits package that includes wellbeing resources, financial advice and up to 14% discount at over 40 retailers including Tesco and John Lewis.

• 22 Days Holiday (increasing to 25 days after 3 years’ service) plus bank holidays
• Occupational Maternity Pay & Adoption Pay
• Occupational Paternity Pay
• Death in Service Payment
• Occupational Sick Pay

Homelife Carers is an Equal Opportunities Employer and part of the City and County Healthcare Group.

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