Team Leader (Days) - Citywide - #1773599

Team Leader (Days)

Care Homes Citywide



Salary: £32,010- £37,626

Hours: 36 per week



Social care is a challenging and rewarding career. Our care staff work with some of Edinburgh's most vulnerable residents. Working in Adult Social Care is a way to make a real difference to the lives of adults and it is extremely rewarding. Care workers help people to live independent, full and valued lives, they will also help maintain their dignity while helping with personal care such as bathing, dressing, meals and medication

Your key responsibilities will include:

Supervising all care staff and monitoring the care given to our residents

Contributing to the personal needs of each individual resident

Promoting a friendly, caring and safe environment

Ensuring that residents retain their dignity, choice and individuality

Helping induct, train and supervise colleagues and junior members of staff in all aspects of their work in the Home

Writing, updating and maintaining residents' Care Plans

The successful applicant will have:

A minimum of an SVQ3 Health and Social Care

Medication administration training

At least one year's experience working in a care setting

To adhere to the SSSC Codes of Practice at all times and obtain SSSC registration

To ensure all information of a confidential nature gained during duty is not divulged to third parties

We can offer you excellent training, good rates of pay, excellent holiday entitlement, a generous pension scheme and range of staff benefits

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work

To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range



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