Job Title: Home Care Registered Manager
Employer: Agincare
Location: Home Care Services in Eastbourne (Domiciliary Home Help)
Salary: Up to £36,000 per year
Contract Type: Permanent
Package Description
Are you looking for a rewarding career where you can really make a difference? Are you an experienced care professional looking for a change? Come and join the Agincare family as a home care Registered Manager in Eastbourne.
A Day in the Life of a Registered Manager
As the Registered Manager, you will lead the team to provide a safe, caring, responsive, and effective service for your clients, ensuring delivery of the highest possible care standards fully compliant with all CQC statutory regulations, whilst making sure you achieve your operational and quality assurance KPIs.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensuring all your clients understand the care and treatment choices that are available to them and that the care is provided in a way that promotes choice, dignity, and individuality.
- Reviewing existing care provision to ensure it meets the current physical and mental health needs of your clients, and in turn liaising with the clients, internal staff, health professionals, social workers, and other interested parties to adapt existing plans to meet current needs.
- Ensuring that auditing is carried out to fully understand the quality of the service being provided and taking quick reparative action if any concerns are raised.
- Ensuring that effective risk assessments are in place to protect the needs of your clients.
- Inducting new staff and ensuring that existing staff are regularly trained, motivated, supervised, and supported.
- Carrying out any potential disciplinary or formative action against team members as and when required.
- Effectively staffing your service to ensure that personnel can cover the needs of your clients' care calls, and having effective contingency plans in case of unexpected absence or events.
- Investigating any complaints surrounding safeguarding, abuse, or delivery of your services and ensuring notifications and duty of candour are sent to the right parties.
What Is Required From You
- A minimum of 12 months on your right to work in the UK.
- Management qualification at QCF level 4 or equivalent, or a willingness to work towards this qualification.
- QCF level 4 or higher in Health and Social Care or equivalent.
- Previous registration in a home care service is preferable.
- Demonstrable up-to-date knowledge of the care sector, including the running of a home care service and regulatory framework.
- Excellent leadership and management skills.
- Experience of working with vulnerable client groups.
- A flexible approach to working hours to meet the needs and availability requirements of the service.
As an Agincare employee, you will enjoy
- Refer a friend scheme—earn up to £1000 (subject to terms and conditions).
- Outstanding career development.
- Fully funded training up to QCF level 5.
- Blue Light care discount package.
- Company pension scheme.
About Agincare
We are a family-run business that has been caring for and supporting people since 1986. With over 4,500 team members, we are one of the UK’s largest care providers and are continuing to grow.
We have over 100 locations across England, including care and nursing homes, home care branches, extra care schemes, supported living properties, and live-in offices. All of our care services are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Equal opportunities are important to us at Agincare and we welcome applications from all.
Care Leaver Support
Agincare is a signatory of the Care Leaver Covenant and are committed to supporting care leavers to live independently. We are proud to be able to offer a guaranteed interview to care leavers, or an informal conversation about our career opportunities
