Care Coordinator

Position: Care Coordinator - 12 Month Fixed Contract (maternity cover)

Location: Sevenoaks

Salary £27,500 p/a

21 days annual leave plus 8 bank Holidays (additional holiday accrued for LOS)

Enrolment to company pension scheme and Healthcare Plan

KPI Bonus Scheme

We are seeking a Care Coordinator to join our Care Team in Sevenoaks to enable us to maintain a quality homecare service to those we support in the local community.

 Personal values and Attributes 

• Kind, caring and compassionate towards others who need support.
• Professional and Respectful - excellent time keeper, reliable and understanding of professional boundaries.
•  Dedicated to non-discriminatory care practice. This means respecting people suffering from a range of medical conditions with different backgrounds and beliefs to your own
• Innovative,  strong problem-solver, who thinks outside of the box to identify solutions and opportunities.
• Supportive, a team player and fantastic communicator, with good emotional intelligence.
• Fun and Passionate, understands that homecare can bring joy and happiness to a customers’ day, and strive to achieve this.

Knowledge & Skills

• Good understanding of the needs of people who need care and support
• Excellent organisational skills- proven ability to plan and organise workloads effectively so that customers receive the services they expect and are safe.
• Ability to maintain clear and accurate written records and follow statutory reporting procedures.
• Good administrative and IT skills. High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to communicate clearly and build positive working relationships with customers, their families, staff and other health and social care professionals. Good telephone manner and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of what confidentiality means in relation to homecare services and why this is important.
• Good geographical knowledge of the local area (roads / routes / traffic levels).
• Ability to think clearly when under pressure. Comfortable using own initiative to solve problems or as part of a team especially in an emergency

Additional Requirements

• Excellent spoken and written communication skills including computer literacy. Attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience of the social care sector (preferably 2 years or more) and an excellent understanding of how to deliver safe and effective care to customers at home
• A satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service formally known as the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
• Valid driving licence. Class 1 business insurance and current MOT (if using own car for business purposes)

Bluebird Care Sevenoaks is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

DBS checking and references will be undertaken in line with government regulations and recruitment best practices.