NHS

Care Home Community Lead


PayCompetitive
LocationReading/England
Employment typeFull-Time

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  • Job Description

      Req#: E0177-25-3571?language=en&page=1056&sort=publicationDateDesc

      Job summary

      As a Community Lead within Barchester's Residential Care Homes, you'll play a crucial role in making residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling, delivering person-centred care and support. With senior-level care experience, you'll supervise a team of Carers and Senior Carers, take on some clinical responsibilities, and build key relationships to ensure a safe, reassuring, and happy environment for residents and their families.

      Main duties of the job

      The Community Lead role involves supervising and leading a team of Carers and Senior Carers, as well as taking on some clinical responsibilities such as recording observations on weight and blood pressure, and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. You'll be a role model for your team and someone residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring, and happy environment. You will build key relationships within the home and externally.

      About us

      Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, offering high-quality residential, nursing, and dementia care. They are committed to empowering their staff to put residents and their families first, and provide a comprehensive rewards package including competitive salaries, learning and development opportunities, and a range of discounts.

      Details

      Date posted

      08 April 2025

      Pay scheme

      Other

      Salary

      £16 an hour

      Contract

      Permanent

      Working pattern

      Full-time, Part-time

      Reference number

      1278116591

      Job locations

      Barchester Healthcare

      READING

      RG31 5UG


      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Community Lead within our Residential Care Homes at Barchester, you'll help to make our residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling so that we can deliver the person-centred care and support they deserve. Always focusing on respecting our residents' independence, privacy, dignity and choice, while leading and supervising our team of Carers and Senior Carers.

      The role of Community Lead will involve some clinical responsibilities, including recording observations on weight and blood pressure, and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. Across everything you do, you'll be a role model for your team and someone our residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring and happy environment. You will build key relationships within the home and externally.

      ABOUT YOU You'll need senior-level care experience to join us as a Community Lead. You'll also have supervised others and developed a good understanding of how to provide clinical care for the older person. We'll look for a Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification. Enthusiastic, tenacious and full of integrity, your caring approach and strong communication skills mean you inspire trust in others. Most of all, you'll share our commitment to maintaining a vibrant, supportive culture that empowers our people to put our residents and their families first.

      REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

      Free learning and development A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts Unlimited access to our Refer a Friend bonus scheme

      If you'd like to use your leadership and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

      Job description

      Job responsibilities

      ABOUT THE ROLEAs a Community Lead within our Residential Care Homes at Barchester, you'll help to make our residents' lives stimulating and fulfilling so that we can deliver the person-centred care and support they deserve. Always focusing on respecting our residents' independence, privacy, dignity and choice, while leading and supervising our team of Carers and Senior Carers.

      The role of Community Lead will involve some clinical responsibilities, including recording observations on weight and blood pressure, and carrying out simple wound dressing procedures. Across everything you do, you'll be a role model for your team and someone our residents and their families can trust to provide a safe, reassuring and happy environment. You will build key relationships within the home and externally.

      ABOUT YOU You'll need senior-level care experience to join us as a Community Lead. You'll also have supervised others and developed a good understanding of how to provide clinical care for the older person. We'll look for a Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification. Enthusiastic, tenacious and full of integrity, your caring approach and strong communication skills mean you inspire trust in others. Most of all, you'll share our commitment to maintaining a vibrant, supportive culture that empowers our people to put our residents and their families first.

      REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

      Free learning and development A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts Unlimited access to our Refer a Friend bonus scheme

      If you'd like to use your leadership and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding place to be.

      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • You'll need senior-level care experience, as well as experience in supervising others and providing clinical care for older people. A Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care, plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification, are required.
      Person Specification

      Qualifications

      Essential

      • You'll need senior-level care experience, as well as experience in supervising others and providing clinical care for older people. A Level 3 NVQ or Advanced Diploma in Health & Social Care, plus a willingness to undertake the assessor qualification, are required.

      Disclosure and Barring Service Check

      This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

      UK Registration

      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

      Additional information

      Disclosure and Barring Service Check

      This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

      UK Registration

      Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Barchester Healthcare

      Address

      Barchester Healthcare

      READING

      RG31 5UG


      Employer's website

      https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

      Employer details

      Employer name

      Barchester Healthcare

      Address

      Barchester Healthcare

      READING

      RG31 5UG


      Employer's website

      https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

  • About the company

      National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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