Care Team Leader
| Posting date: | 15 January 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 February 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG8 3LD |
| Company: | Nottingham City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3658 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 per week (8.40am-4.30pm Monday-Thursday and 8.40am-4pm Friday)
Worker Type: Onsite Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £35,235 (Level one) rising to £37,938 (level four) per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Location: The Martin Jackaman Centre, Robins Wood Road, Aspley, Nottingham, NG8 3LD
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
The Martin Jackaman Centre specialises in providing Day support for citizens with physical, sensory, and learning disabilities, helping them lead healthy, active, and independent lives.
Our centre offers an active and sociable environment, providing Citizens with opportunities to develop friendships alongside a wide range of activities designed to promote confidence, independence, self-worth, and an understanding of health and wellbeing issues.
You will be part of the Management Team, responsible for the efficient running of the Centre. You will manage and supervise Care Workers to ensure the delivery of safe, appropriate and high quality personalised care and support for our citizens. You will ensure this is in a way that respects their dignity and enables them to maintain or regain maximum independence and fulfilment in all aspects of daily living.
About You
The ideal candidate will have:
- The ability to supervise, manage, monitor and directly observe the practice of Care Workers
- Responsibility for ensuring that each citizen has an up to date care plan, which is reviewed regularly and that their needs are met in line with all relevant codes of practice
- Overall responsibility for the coordination of staff, ensuring there are sufficient numbers of suitable staff to cover duty rotas
- Previous experience working in a social care setting, ideally supporting Citizens with Learning Disabilities and/or experience supporting Citizens who exhibit behaviours that challenge
A DBS enhanced check for a regulated activity is required for this post.
You can find the job description for this post here
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact Maria Chapman, Care Team Leader, by email at maria.chapman@nottinghamcity.gov.uk
Closing Date: 28th february 2025
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: TBC
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