Team Leader - Reading Extra Care

Care Outlook is an expanding leading home care provider in London and South East of England since 2005.

Our Care team is friendly, and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide. We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career.

We are currently recruiting for a Team Leader to maintain and develop three of our local extra care services in Reading.

Core Duties & Responsibilities as Team Leader:

Direct Management of the care team monitoring staff development through supervisions, appraisals, and training to assist them in delivering a high-quality service
Creating, managing, and monitoring customer care plans, ensuring staff rotas meet service users’ needs and aspirations
Ensuring care assessments, care and risk planning meets best practice and customers aspirations
Work with Recruitment Team to ensure sufficient current and future staffing levels
To provide care services to service users in an emergency, arrange emergency cover when required and cover all/ any calls reasonable where required
To ensure that the telephones are answered promptly, and people are spoken to in a polite and respectful manner
To work alongside the Branch Manager ensuring that all quality standards, complaints, and comments are dealt with promptly
Participate in the paid on-call rota
Put in place measure to comply with CQC regulations and work to achieve the best care standards possible

As a Team Leader, you will be offered the following:

Salary £23,000 - £25,000
Company issued mobile phone
Ongoing support and Professional Development
20 Days Holiday plus Bank Holidays
Opportunity to work in an expanding leading home care provider

We are looking for a Team Leader to join us who are:

100% committed to helping improve the quality of life of vulnerable people
Flexibility to cover on call to meet the needs of the business (essential)
Knowledge of CQC standards and CQC Compliance (essential)
Experience in Care Coordinating or 2 years working within Health & Social Care (preferred)
Full Driving Licence and access to a vehicle (preferred)
NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care (preferred)

If you have the skills and experience listed above and are interested in working for an organisation that can really make a difference to people’s lives, then this could be your next role