Team Leader - Nights

This role as a Team Leader – Nights at Avery Healthcare offers the opportunity to join a supportive, caring, and award-winning team. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality, person-centered care and supporting the home management team. The role requires strong leadership, communication, and care planning skills to create a safe and inclusive environment for residents, visitors, and staff.

Main duties of the job

As a Team Leader – Nights, your focus will be to support the home management team in delivering high-quality care with a difference. This includes leading in the person-centered care planning process, assisting with resident discharges, monitoring resident well-being, and ensuring safe systems of work. You will demonstrate the ability to lead staff and act responsibly in the absence of the manager.

About us

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK\’s largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are committed to creating meaningful experiences for their residents and team members alike, with a vision of “creating meaningful lives together.” Avery offers exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes, building a supportive and inspiring environment where employees feel valued and empowered every day.

Shift Details

Nights Shifts – 8pm – 8am

Job responsibilities

• Leading in the person-centered care planning process by implementing, monitoring, and undertaking monthly evaluations, completing care plan audits, developing action plans, and being responsible for completing the action plans.
• Assisting in the smooth transition of any discharges from the home, including documentation, medication, and keeping the residents\’ next of kin fully informed, where appropriate.
• Monitoring the well-being of each resident, being aware of any change impacting care and care planning and ensuring that changing needs are met and written records are amended to reflect any variation.
• Practicing safe systems of work across a range of tasks and moving and handling of residents, by assessing risks and having due regard for personal safety and the safety of residents, visitors, and staff.

About you

To succeed in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all you do.

Our ideal candidate must:

• Have an NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes.
• Have two years experience working in a senior position with the resident group.
• Have the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead staff and act responsibly in the absence of the manager.

Additional requirements

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you must have an NVQ 3 or equivalent in care for care homes, two years\’ experience working in a senior position with the resident group, and the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing. You should also demonstrate the ability to lead staff and act responsibly in the absence of the manager.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.