Bed Manager

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New Career, New You, New Opportunity; New Care!

Our stunning care homes Grappenhall Manor Centre and Statham Manor Care Centre are located 4 miles apart in the Cheshire area. The homes are registered to provide care to 70 and 66 residents respectively, with a variety of care needs including residential, dementia and nursing. Each of these beautiful homes also provide intermediate care in association with Warrington & Halton NHS Trust to provide rehabilitation following hospital admissions. The teams at Grappenhall and Statham Manor work closely with the NHS therapy team to reach rewarding outcomes for the residents in their care.

We are seeking to appoint an experienced and motivated Bed Manager to join our team. Experience in a clinical environment is essential to apply for this role. As the Bed Manager you will report directly to the Home Managers at both Grappenhall and Statham. You will work closely with Warrington & Halton NHS Trust in order to provide a comprehensive patient flow service to support the clinical activity of the Discharge to Assess communities across both care homes. We are offering an excellent salary of £26,500 per annum. This is a full time contract with working hours of Monday - Friday, 0900 - 1700.

Role Responsibilities:

• Review initial assessments regarding prospective temporary residents' needs
• Coordinate admissions from Hospital to discharge to assess/intermediate care beds
• Communicate effectively with a wide spectrum of multi-disciplinary professionals to achieve the best outcomes
• Coordinate quality and safe discharges in a timely manner
• Support the care homes, and external discharge teams with residents who require additional, individual planning
• Support MDT meetings both internally and externally, providing updates and information
• Attending daily bed meetings with external stakeholders providing up-to-date bed availability, pending discharges and admissions due
• Provide a person-centred, quality and effective service

Skills and experience required:

• Previous experience in a clinical environment with knowledge/experience of continued care planning and delivery desirable
• Confident in liaising with management and external professionals across multiple disciplinaries and able to maintain effective professional relationships
• Good time management and organisation skills
• Excellent communicator
• Able to work using own initiative, contributing to the wider team in order to achieve the best results
• Confident using IT systems to maintain up-to-date records
• Minimum requirement of NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care unless expansive experience can be demonstrated

The Benefits

Opportunities to progress through our career paths into more senior and management roles

• Bank holiday enhancements
• 5.6 weeks annual leave per annum, inclusive of public holidays
• Paid DBS
• Paid training
• Refer a friend referral scheme, for the following roles only - Registered Nurse, Team Leader / Senior Care Assistant and Care Assistant
• Excellent induction programme for new starters
• A rewarding career with lots of opportunities to progress within the company
• Ongoing support and training for nationally recognised qualifications
• A competitive rate of pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing programmes
• Recognition awards - employee of the month and golden tickets
• Ongoing career development
• Travel plan - walk or ride a bike and get a free meal that day
• Christmas Bonuses
• Pension scheme
• HASTEE - access to your money as you earn (pay advance)

About New Care

The care philosophy of New Care aims to ensure all residents maintain the highest level of independence and achieve their full potential whatever that may be - physical, intellectual, emotional or social. We believe this philosophy can be achieved by providing professional, person- centred care, nurturing each resident individually exploring and understanding their needs. The health, well-being and happiness of our residents is always our number one priority.

New Care, as part of the McGoff group have been designing, building and operating care homes for over 10 years. Each New Care home is purpose built and expertly designed with the needs of our residents in mind. Internally the design is luxurious yet comfortable and practical.

The company ethos 'To celebrate the wonder of people' relates to all those who are part of the New Care family, residents, their family and friends, staff members and professional visitors. Ultimately, we want residents to live their lives to the fullest and to be proud of their home and feel happy to invite their family and friends to visit.

This position is subject to a DBS check