Unit Care Leader

There’s never been a better time to progress your career and take the next step as a Unit Care Leader.

This is an opportunity to take your career to the next level, providing leadership to a team of Care Assistants and Seniors.

About the role

• To support with personal care needs on an individual basis recognising choice, ability and diversity

• To recognise and actively encourage the importance of social activity in a person’s day

• To understand the importance of a person’s life history and incorporate this into the daily care needs

• Provide leadership to a team of care assistants and senior care assistants

About you

If you have had some experience within this field, we would love to hear from you. Whether you are an experienced carer looking for the next step or if you are looking to develop further within a similar role, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

• Experience in the care sector is essential

• Achieved or are working towards Diploma Level 3 in Health and Social Care

• Enthusiastic, friendly and passionate about working with older people

• Excellent communication skills, able to work on own initiative

Job benefits

• Competitive rates of pay

• Equivalent to 30 days of paid annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays), increasing to the equivalent of 33 after 5 years’ service (pro-rata)

• Free enhanced DBS Check & uniform provided

• Blue Light Card discount service, offering online and high street discounts

• Access to a fully-funded Medicash Health Plan to save up to £995 on health essentials; like going to the dentist or opticians and access to telephone and video GP appointments

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Company Sick Pay

• Care First Employee Assistance Programme (provides a range of free, confidential services) and in-house Mental Health First Aiders available

• £200 refer a friend bonus

About Us:

Brunelcare is an award-winning Bristol-based charity providing high-quality housing, care, and support for older people in the South West, whilst also recognised for our expertise and excellence in caring for people living with dementia. We are at the forefront of developing ways for people to stay as independent as possible whilst creating great communities to live, work, and thrive in.

Established in 1941, Brunelcare is an award-winning Bristol based charity providing high-quality housing, care, and support for older people in the South West.

Today, across Bristol, South Gloucestershire, and Somerset, Brunelcare works to support people to remain as independent as possible, for as long as possible.

The extensive range of our services means that people can stay with us however their needs may change.

We are also widely recognised for our expertise and excellence in caring for people living with dementia, and for supporting their families.

As a charity, we do not pay dividends to shareholders, and any profit we make is reinvested back into the services we provide.