Team Leader – Dementia Service

Team Leader – Dementia Service

Location: The Marbrook Centre, St Neots Salary: £16.30 per hour Full time (includes nights and weekends)

This role is a maternity cover, initially 12 months.

Do Competence, Choice and Compassion mean more than just words to you? Are you able to see a person and not their condition? If you answered yes, then our residents need you!

If showing genuine kindness and empathy comes naturally to you, and you are looking for a rewarding career where you can really care and make a difference to our residents lives, then a Team Leader at The Marbrook Centre could be the role for you.

Looking after those living with dementia is one of the most fulfilling and rewarding careers you could have. Our Team Leaders have the ability to step into the world of our residents, lead a team and share and enjoy those special moments together.

With strong proven leadership skills and a good work ethic, you will support and develop your like-minded team to look after the day to day needs of our residents and deliver the highest quality personalised care in line with their individual care plans with the dignity and respect they deserve.

About you: Experience in care is essential, ideally qualified to Level 3 NVQ or equivalent or willing to work towards, you will also have knowledge of administering medication. Reporting to your Service Manager you will have excellent communication and organisation skills and will demonstrate a professional, positive and motivating attitude at all times.

Our Team Leaders are essential for creating a strong foundation for us to develop a professional, safe and comfortable home for our residents. When we find people who share our values, we try to keep hold of them by nurturing and investing in them, supporting them to be the best that they can be and offer real progression and career development for those that want it.

If you want to join Team Marbrook and be part of the excellent, award winning work we do here then we would love to hear from you, to apply for this position please click APPLY below.

About Us: The Marbrook Centre is committed to protecting and safeguarding vulnerable adults and successful applicants will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for regulated activity.

The Marbrook Centre is an award winning specialist dementia care provider in St Neots, Cambridgeshire.

We don’t just accept difference, we welcome it. No matter what your sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, gender identity, religion or any other characteristic, we welcome your application. As a team

we actively celebrate, support and thrive on diversity for the benefit of our residents and staff, and we believe this creates an environment of empowerment and mutual respect and therefore excellence in care.

Working with us at Marbrook leads to a whole lot of great benefits! Here are just a few:

• Highly competitive rates of pay

• Great holiday allowance – increases with long service

• Flexible working/rota

• Automatic pension

• Blue Light Card

• Free parking

• Free tea and coffee

• Free access to Mental Health Charter

• Quick career progression opportunities

• First class specialist tailored training and induction

• Length of service rewards

• Regular management supervision and support

• Staff forums – to give you a voice to share your ideas

• Opportunity to achieve your Level 2 or 3 City & Guilds (NVQ) in Adult Care (care roles)

• Double pay for bank holidays

• Free meal provided on shift (care roles)

• Full time/Part time/Night/Bank contracts available