Field Care Supervisor

Advantage Healthcare; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Maidstone seeks a Field Care Supervisor to ensure the delivery of high-quality care services. The role involves assessing individual service needs, supervising care workers, and actively participating in service planning. Candidates are required to have experience in conducting assessments and collaborating with healthcare professionals. This position offers numerous benefits, including enhanced pay entitlements and opportunities for career growth within an expanding company.

Benefits

Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay

Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement

Death in Service Payment

Benefits and Well-being Platform

28 days annual leave (pro rata)

Refer a friend scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in assessing individual service users' needs in various settings.
• Ability to collaborate with families and healthcare professionals to ensure effective care.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of high-quality care support services.
• Conduct assessments and reviews of individual services.
• Supervise and support care workers in the field.

Skills

Experience in risk and needs assessments

Partnership work with service users and healthcare professionals

Job description

We’re creating brighter days. Fresh challenges. Exciting opportunities. Plenty of ups, downs and curveballs. With a career as a Field Care Supervisor at Kent SCP every day will be different to the next. Each will offer you the opportunity to do meaningful and rewarding work that makes a real difference to our clients lives and your career.

What you’ll get

• Enhanced occupational maternity and adoption pay
• Enhanced occupational paternity pay entitlement
• Death in Service Payment
• Benefits and Well-being Platform
• 28 days annual leave (pro rata)
• Refer a friend scheme
• Cycle to work scheme

Job Description

What you’ll do

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 the 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

What you need

You would need 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.

This is a great chance to be part of one of the UK’s most exciting business’s within Domiciliary Care, who are going from strength to strength focusing on their growth and quality of care.

Additional Information

What you’ll get

We see extraordinary achievements happen every day thanks to the talent and commitment of our people. We want to transform the care industry by working smarter, using innovative tech and driving forward positive change. As the largest care company in the UK, we have the size and success to offer you a world of career opportunity, choice and security. Join us on our journey and continue yours.

Kent SCP is an Equal Opportunities Employer and part of the CCH Group.