Shift Lead (Senior Carer) - Longlands Care Home

What will you be doing?

In this role, you’ll lead and coordinate your team throughout each shift, making sure workloads are organised, priorities are clear, and any challenges are quickly and confidently resolved. You’ll be the go-to person on shift – making decisions, supporting colleagues, and keeping everything running smoothly.

You’ll be hands-on in delivering practical, personal and emotional care, ensuring each resident receives support tailored to their individual needs and care plans. From administering medication safely to keeping accurate records, updating care plans, and contributing to reviews, you’ll play a key role both on the floor and behind the scenes.

You’ll also take ownership as a key worker, helping residents access the services and support available to them, while promoting independence and wellbeing. Alongside this, you’ll ensure a safe, positive environment for everyone by following health, safety and safeguarding practices at all times, and making sure high standards of care are consistently delivered.

This role offers a varied working pattern, including 12-hour shifts, a mix of early and late shifts, and alternate weekend working, providing flexibility to meet the needs of the service.

About you

You’ll have previous experience working in adult health or social care and an understanding of safeguarding, health and safety, and current care standards. Ideally, you’ll hold an NVQ Level 2 in Health & Social Care (or equivalent) and be confident working flexibly across a range of shifts.

It would be great if you also have experience with administering and managing medication within a residential or dementia care setting, and are working towards your NVQ Level 3.

Please note, if you do not live locally to Daventry, public transport links can be limited, particularly given the shift patterns for this role.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore subject to an enhanced DBS certificate, at our cost. West Northamptonshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Unfortunately, this role does not meet the legal requirements for visa sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.

Apply now!  As we may close the advert early, if we receive the desired response. 

Our benefits

You can also see our full list of employee benefits on our careers site here: Why you should work for us | West Northamptonshire Council.

About us

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services. 

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.  We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us. 

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