Care Home Community Lead

As a Community Lead within our Residential Care Homes at Barchester, you'll help to make our residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling so that we can deliver the person-centered care and support they deserve. The role involves some clinical responsibilities, including recording observations and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. You'll be a role model for your team and someone our residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring and happy environment.

The Community Lead role at Barchester Healthcare involves supervising a team of Carers and Senior Carers, while also taking on some clinical responsibilities. You'll need senior-level care experience, as well as a Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care. Your caring approach, strong communication skills, and commitment to empowering your team and putting residents first will be essential.

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of high-quality care and support services in the UK. They operate a network of residential care homes, focusing on delivering person-centered care and creating a vibrant, supportive culture for their employees.

ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Community Lead within our Residential Care Homes at Barchester, you'll help to make our residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling so that we can deliver the person-centered care and support they deserve. Always focusing on respecting our residents' independence, privacy, dignity and choice, while leading and supervising our team of Carers and Senior Carers.

The role of Community Lead will involve some clinical responsibilities, including recording observations on weight and blood pressure, and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. Across everything you do, you'll be a role model for your team and someone our residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring and happy environment. You will build key relationships within the home and externally.

ABOUT YOU You'll need senior-level care experience to join us as a Community Lead. You'll also have supervised others and developed a good understanding of how to provide clinical care for the older person. We'll look for a Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification. Enthusiastic, tenacious and full of integrity, your caring approach and strong communication skills mean you inspire trust in others.

Most of all, you'll share our commitment to maintaining a vibrant, supportive culture that empowers our people to put our residents and their families first.

REWARDS PACKAGE
As well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

• Free learning and development
• A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts
• Unlimited access to our Refer a Friend bonus scheme

If you'd like to use your leadership and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

• Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care, plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.