Head of Residential Care - Eversfield Care Home

We're looking for a dedicated Head of Residential Care to help create a warm, safe and high-quality environment for our residents. You'll support the Home Manager in delivering excellent care, maintaining compliance, and leading a valued and motivated team.

What You'll Do

Resident Care & Wellbeing: Support residents to live safe, fulfilling lives by delivering high-quality personal care, promoting physical and mental wellbeing, and creating a warm, secure environment in collaboration with the General Manager.

Care Planning & Medication: Oversee assessments, care plans and regular reviews, ensuring accurate documentation, effective liaison with health professionals, and safe administration and monitoring of medication.

Leadership & Staff Management: Lead, supervise and support staff, ensuring effective induction, training, performance standards and compliance with policies and procedures.

Operational & Administrative Management: Manage rotas, records, complaints, and resources to ensure the smooth, efficient running of the home with appropriate staffing levels and skill mix.

Quality, Compliance & Safety: Uphold quality assurance standards, safeguarding (SOVA), health and safety, infection control, COSHH, moving and handling, and security procedures.

Financial & Resource Oversight: Contribute to budget management and financial performance by planning efficient rotas and ensuring equipment and supplies are available and well maintained.

Level 2 and 3 or equivalent care qualification
Experience managing or leading a care/clinical team in older people's services.
Strong communication, leadership and IT skills

Elizabeth Finn is a leading care provider providing exceptional care throughout our eight prestigious care homes. Our company values are Bring Love, Inspire More, Act with Purpose and Welcome All.

A warm welcome awaits at our Eversfield Home. From your first sight of its attractive stone facade and pretty, ornate entrance, you will feel right at home. Offering the highest levels of residential and nursing care provided by a team of experienced and committed staff.

In return for the wonderful contribution our employees make we offer the following benefits:

Fully paid induction programme
Enhanced pay for family leave
Flexible shifts
5.6 working weeks holiday per year
Overtime and bank holiday enhancements to pay
Group pension plan with option to join the more generous scheme with a 9% employer contribution on a salary sacrifice basis
Occupational sick pay after probation
Wellbeing support through various initiatives including an employee assistance programme with free counselling and Mental Health First Aiders.
Opportunity to earn rewards via Care Friends which you can cash in when you choose
Free Blue Light card - provides members with thousands of amazing retail discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Long service awards
Apprenticeships, continuous learning and development, professional development and study support opportunities
Free DBS unless leaving during probation
Uniform provided
Free on-site parking
Subsidised meals while on duty

Safeguarding:

In the process of recruitment, selection and appointment Elizabeth Finn Homes implement a range of procedures and actions including Police/Enhanced DBS Checks to ensure our employees, residents and everyone is safeguarded, and abuse is prevented. This is in line with our company values, which are Bring Love, Inspire More, Act with Purpose and Welcome All.

Criminal record checks:

As this role involves a regulated activity, successful applicants will undertake an enhanced DBS check, with barred lists check, and any offer of employment will be dependent on a satisfactory outcome. Having a criminal record will not necessarily bar a person from working for us, this will depend on the circumstances and background of any record.

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging:

Elizabeth Finn strives to treat all staff equally and be a diverse and inclusive workplace, where everyone can be themselves and everyone accepts each other's differences.

Our ambition is to ensure equality and celebrate diversity, working together to create an inclusive workplace, which attracts, nurtures and retains the best people.