Job Description

Rivendell Care Home:



Job Title: Senior Team Leader (Days/Nights)

Reporting to: Deputy Manager/ Manager

Job Purpose: Support the Management Team in ensuring that Rivendell provides a home for life for residents. Take a Lead role with the Senior Care Team and support the Care team to ensure a high standard of care for residents, liaising with other professionals where appropriate. Contribute towards the continuous development of the care provided within Rivendell in line with the Care Standards.

Section A

Lead the Senior Care Team and the Keyworker system to ensure a high standard of care for all residents.

Keyworker System

1. Lead, guide and give support to, your Senior team as well as the Care Team.

2. Develop the individual members of your Senior Care Team.

3. Maintain, Review and develop the work of the Senior Care Team.

4. Ensure the continuous development of your team in meeting the changing needs of the Residents.

Senior Team Leader

To lead your senior team in ensuring all systems and policies are being met. To ASPIRE to improve and develop the service we provide.

Shift Coordinator/Shift Leader

The role will involve doing shift work. But will also include some supernumerary time for service, staff and personal development.

1. When in charge of a shift, coordinate the running of the shift to ensure all residents' needs are met.

2. Plan ahead to ensure that the needs of the residents are met on your shift, the next shift and future shifts as can reasonably be expected.

3. Ensure that all appropriate communication systems are up to date and maintained, including communication books, diaries, care plans, shift handovers, reviews, supervisions and any other communications required to ensure the continued High Quality of Service Provision within Rivendell House.

4. Provide leadership and training to other members of the shift team to give residents the most informed and professional support possible.

5. Carry out supervision in line with Policy and Procedures.

6. Liaise with GPs and other professionals when appropriate.

7. Lead and give direction about appropriate activities.

8. Use the care plan system effectively, ensuring accurate records are kept.

9. Communicate any concerns to a member of the Management Team.

10. Ensure suggestions as to how the Services provide by Rivendell House may be improved, are passed to a member of the Management Team.

11. Work with Management team and to support and lead the Senior Team and Support team to implement any new policies and to facilitate the continued service development.

12. Administer medications according to best practice.

13. Ensure that Policies and Procedures and any best practice guidelines are carried out at all times by Senior Team and all members of staff.

14. Take any new practices and ideas from staff on recent training and discuss these with Management and senior team identifying areas for further development and improvement of the Service Provision within Rivendell House.

14. Take any new practices and ideas from staff and discuss these with Management senior team identifying areas for further development and improvement of the Service Provision within Rivendell House.

15. Be open to new ideas, practices and actively develop yourself and your staff team.

Needs of Residents

1. Work with the management, Senior Care Team and Care staff team to ensure all residents are offered a home for life.

2. Work proactively to enable residents to express their needs, put forward their views, state their opinions.

3. Work within Rivendell policies and procedures to meet the needs of the residents.

4. Take a lead role in reviewing and updating polices.

5. Liaise with residents' relatives and friends, while maintaining confidentiality.

6. Enable the continuation of community links

Section B

Care Commission Standards

1. Become familiar with the Care Standards.

2. Have an understanding of the big picture and how the different aspects of and systems within and out with Rivendell House inter-act and impact upon the meeting of a High-Quality Service as set out by the Care Inspectorate Quality Standards.

2. Work with and help lead the whole staff team to develop Rivendell in line with the Care Standards and Quality Assessment process.

3. Be prepared to undertake training and assessment (SVQs) relevant to your work and the needs of the Residents.

Section C

Staff Leadership

1. Contribute to the development and maintenance of good channels of communication within Rivendell.

2. Ensure that staff behave in a professional manner and carry out their duties to a high standard.

3. Enable cooperative working within the staff team.

4. Train, direct and support staff as needed.

5. Carry out staff supervision and appraisals as appropriate.

6. Work to ensure that shifts are covered with the required staff skill mix.

Section D

Registration

1. Meet and maintain Registration Requirements as set out by the SSSC, Care Commission or any other legislative Body.

Other

1. Maintain confidentiality at all times both inside and outside the home

2. Work to help cut down on waste and make savings wherever possible.

This highlights the main duties and responsibilities of the Senior Support Worker. It should not be taken as a complete list. The Senior Team Leader will be expected to do everything within their abilities to achieve the job purpose.

This job description should act as a guide in meeting the job purpose and filling the role as Senior Team Leader. It is expected that over a period of time this job description will be updated and developed on an ongoing basis in line with any changes in role or purpose as they occur. These changes may be due to changing Care Standards, Service User needs, Legislative requirements, changing needs of the Organisation and any other relevant factor.

Support worker/Care worker; are interchangeable in this advertisement. We prefer to use the term Senior Support Leader and Support worker as we feel these terms better reflect the roles and responsibilities. However, we recognise that within the Care Sector, Care worker is often the used and recognised term.

Care as a term is often used from a medical perspective and tends to mean that care workers care for and do for the patient. We prefer to have support workers who support and enable the residents within their home to be able to do as much for themselves as they are able to do. To promote independence and to help them live life.

We prefer the term Senior Support Leader and Senior Team leader as this reflects the leadership incorporated into the role. To lead is a proactive action.

Your role as Senior Team leader is to support the Management team in leading our Senior Support Leader team. Who in turn lead and support our Support worker team. Who in turn support our residents to enable them to live life.

ASPIRE*

Assess the needs of the service and our residents: working with the staff team.

Set out and work towards agreed goals.

Plan with the team how these goals will be achieved.

Implement and take a lead role implementing the plans with the team.

Record - Progress, issues, feedback. (if it is not recorded it did not happen)

Evaluate

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: Up to 30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Discounted or free food Free parking Transport links
Schedule:

12 hour shift 8 hour shift Weekend availability
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 09/07/2025