The Private Care Company is a private, award winning and fully independent home care agency. We pride ourselves on our excellent reputation to provide high quality home care services which support our clients to remain independently living in their own homes for as long as possible.

We are currently looking to recruit a full-time Care Supervisor to join our friendly team covering the Brighton & Hove area. In return for your skills, experience and commitment we offer excellent working conditions and benefits including:

• A highly competitive salary + paid holiday
• Enhanced rate of pay on Bank Holidays
• Fully funded Health and Social Care Diplomas (Levels 4 or 5)
• Excellent career progression and training opportunities to Registered Manager
• A friendly and supportive management team
• Regular communication including newsletters and recognition awards
• Free counselling and wellbeing support

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• To carry out and assist clients of The Private Care Company with a variety of personal and practical care tasks including assisting with attending appointments and leisure activities as specified on each care plan
• To support client’s food and fluid intake as directed by the care plan, and to ensure documentation of all intake as per training
• To maintain care skills at the required level and undertake such training and development as may from time to time be required
• To communicate with and report any incidents to the Care Manager as necessary to ensure high standards of care are delivered
• To liaise with other professionals such as district nurses, doctors, pharmacists, occupational therapists etc, to ensure that clients receive a high standard of care
• To provide support to the Care Manager with staff supervisions, training, risk assessments, client reviews and assessments and to offer ongoing support to the care team
• To provide occasional assistance with office administration and answering the phone
• To carry out any other duties which may be reasonably requested by the Registered Manager or Care Manager

SKILLS / EXPERIENCE / KNOWLEDGE:

• The Care Certificate
• Significant prior experience as a Care Assistant, ideally in a senior role
• Experienced in delivering more complex care
• Experienced in multi-skilled care delivery
• Good working knowledge of IT systems such as Office, Excel, Word, Outlook and the ability to learn and use computer software
• Extremely well organised and professional
• Very good written and oral communication skills
• A full clean UK driving licence and own call essential

Please refer the Job description for details