Care Planner/Coordinator - Edinburgh

Job Introduction

We want to make life better for more people. If you are as passionate about quality as we are and you want a role where your skills will make a real difference, this is a great opportunity.  You can help us to grow and develop in an exciting business that puts people front and centre of everything we do.

Prestige Nursing & Care, part of the Sodexo Group, has provided home care for over 75 years and we have 30 local offices in England and Scotland. Our aim is to lead the care industry by providing high quality, personalised and specialist services to our clients. 

We are looking for a dynamic Care Planner/Coordinator with solid planning and rostering experience that is matched to a flexible, enthusiastic and can-do attitude to join our Edinburgh team.  

You will be assisting and supporting your Branch Manager in ensuring that key business and compliance targets are met.

As a leading strategic focus is around sustainable growth, this is an exciting role with plenty of scope to contribute to the success of the business.

We offer a supportive working environment with lots of potential for learning and development and a friendly, agile and flexible working culture.

ROLE PURPOSE

The role of Care Planner/Coordinator is always to promote Prestige Nursing & Care as well as ensuring that the utilisation of nursing and care resources is both maximised and aligned with client requirements within defined quality, compliance and safety standards.

The success of this role will be measured by:

• Member utilisation targets are achieved
• Effective shift rostering including forward planning resulting in all clients having suitably allocated carers
• Identifying business growth opportunities
• Forming strong relationships with the Carers
• Business KPI’s met

Role Responsibility

Any Care calls attended during office hours 9-5pm will be considered to be part of the role and covered by the salary indicated.  As part of the role the successful candidate will be expected to be able to deliver care in an emergency (full training will be given). If care calls are attended between 7-9am or 5-10pm, payment will be made for each visit between these times at the Carer rate. Holding a valid UK driving licence and access to a car is desirable, however other travel arrangements are possible and will be taken into consideration.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that all client visits are covered on a daily basis.
• Organise Quality Visits for the Field Care Supervisors & Field Care Managers.
• Liaise with Branch Nurses to support the assessments, training, and competencies of Complex Packages
• Provide excellent customer service levels to internal and external users of the business.
• Ability to liaise with a variety of healthcare professionals, social workers, and case managers.
• Ensure compliance with all office systems and procedures.
• Take ownership of area and work in collaboration with the other care planners to ensure care is covered.
• Communicate with our frontline colleagues regarding changes relating to client’s needs.
• Maintaining great relationships with existing clients and colleagues
• Identify new business opportunities to support growth with the Branch Manager
• Work in cooperation with members of multi-disciplinary health teams so as to maximise opportunities for clients care needs.
• Ensure the effective placement of frontline colleagues to meet client needs
• Prepare ad hoc reports as and when required
• Undertake the on-call rota and provide 1:4 weekend cover

• The role is branch based but may require some travel to other branches/sites to meet the needs of the business.

General Responsibilities:

• Support with the day-to-day responsibilities of the team when required
• Be a champion for internal customer service
• Do any other reasonable things your manager needs you to do

The Ideal Candidate

Skills and qualifications we’re looking for:

• Confident in promoting the branch
• Self-motivated
• Computer literate
• A passion for managing and driving excellence
• Excellent organisational skills
• Understands target setting and performance
• The role requires a pro-active response to building key relationships
• Ability to manage change
• A commitment to equal opportunities and diversity
• Demonstrates the behaviours associated with Prestige Nursing & Care values

Package Description

We offer:

•  A competitive salary
• 28 days annual leave (includes Bank Holidays) increasing every year by 1 to the maximum of 33 days over 5 years' service
• An additional day off for your Birthday 
• Blue Light Card
• Cycle to Work scheme for our Head Office, Regional and Branch staff
• Long Service Awards
• Work Place Pension
• Employee assistance programme (EAP) - confidential phone line and online support and resources available to you and your loved ones 24/7
• Supportive working environment with ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• A friendly, agile and flexible working culture.

Please note:

As a Company we are unable to provide Sponsorship for overseas candidates. Proof of Right to Work in the UK is required for all roles. It is a requirement to provide an overseas police check dated within the last 3 months of being in the UK if you have lived outside of the UK for longer than a year in the last 5 years

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions

In line with CQC & Care Inspectorate regulations, we require and will undertake Enhanced DBS/PVG, Right to Work, Reference and Employment History checks in line with Government guidelines for this role and safer recruitment best practice. Whilst we endeavour to keep the recruitment process as short as possible, due to the nature of these important checks there may be extension to timelines.  All our clients are equally entitled to have their needs met in a safe, fair and balanced way. Prestige Nursing & Care colleagues are responsible for promoting Equal Opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any client or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, identity or any other perceived difference.

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About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing & Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process