Unit Manager Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Unit Manager to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- You will lead by example, delivering hands-on nursing care and providing strong leadership to your team;
- Serve meals and beverages, encouraging and assisting in the feeding of residents requiring additional attention at mealtimes;
- You will take the role of a Unit Manager on duty and have responsibility for a team of nursing and care staff;
- To enhance and promote the clients quality of life;
- Manage and participate in the rota, to ensure senior care and care support is available at all times;
- You will have a person-centred ethos and be committed to enriching the lives of the individuals in your care;
- Have responsibility for coordinating documentation of individual plans of care and reporting back to the Deputy and Home Manager;
- Responsible for administration of medication, including ordering dispensing and maintaining records;
- Liaising with GP’s and other outside agencies;
- Maintain steady routine of home, administration and day to day operations;
- Organise and manage regular team meetings to ensure information is cascaded to the team;
- Support Home Manager and senior staff in all aspects of the home management;
- Arranging reviews of residents and formulation of health and social care plans;
- Effective team management – motivate, train and support.
Requirements:
- Able to show a can-do attitude always;
- You must have previous experience in a management role;
- You must have a good understanding of CQC/CI and other regulatory bodies (DoLs/MCA);
- You must have a proven track record in delivering good care results;
- You will lead the care teams by example, providing coaching, mentoring and instruction where it’s needed and role modelling best practice;
- Your skills will be key to supporting residents with all their needs, therapeutic interventions and meaningful occupations;
- Experience in a Reablement Unit;
- Confident communicator;
- Flexible to work shifts;
- Be efficient in managing a team of nursing and care staff;
- Organised;
- Good Clinical background skills;
- Committed and dedicated;
- You will be a registered nurse RMN / RGN / RNLD and will have a valid NMC pin;
- Previous challenging behaviour experience.