Care Coordinator

Job Type: Full Time
Location: East Boldon
Travel: Driver
Salary: £23,000

Job Description

About Us

Established in 1986, Dale Care is one of the leading home care providers in the North East, helping our service users to stay as independent as possible within the comfort of their own home. We are now expanding our services into South Tyneside after the award of a new contract with the Council

About the Role

The successful candidate will be responsible for organising and coordinating a team of domiciliary carers within a given geographical area ensuring that our customer care and support is covered appropriately and safely and to the highest possible standard.

Roles and Responsibilities

Duties will include

  • Compiling rotas for care workers
  • Assigning care workers to customers, whilst working within our standards
  • Understanding, organising and recording the availability of all new care workers
  • Working closely and communicating with other members of the team, professional bodies and family members to ensure the highest quality of care
  • Managing customer visits and arranging reviews and quality checks
  • Accepting, allocating and processing referrals for new care packages
  • Accepting and processing changes and amendments to existing care packages
  • Managing customer visits and arranging reviews and quality checks
  • Monitoring quality through ECM records and weekly KPI reports

About you

As a Care Coordinator you will have an excellent telephone manner with good communication, interpersonal and influencing skills. We are looking for a customer focused candidate that has the ability to multi task, prioritise, organise and work well under tight deadlines and pressure.

The suitable candidate will ideally have call centre or care sector experience. With experience of working in a fast paced, high volume call environment, you will be able to deal with queries and enquiries quickly and efficiently. You must be able to remain calm under pressure and be able to prioritise tasks and communicate effectively with other members of staff, ensuring that information is recorded for future reference and passed to the relevant person in a timely fashion.

Essential qualities:

  • Strong I.T. skills
  • Excellent communication and customer service skills
  • Experience of managing a busy work load
  • Ability to work autonomously and be able to analyse a situation and take decisive action in a timely manner
  • Ability to prioritise tasks
  • Ability to remain calm under pressure

Desirable:

  • Care sector experience
  • Call centre experience

Benefits

  • 25 days holidays (+ bank holidays)
  • Pension scheme
  • Store discounts
  • Employee health and wellbeing service
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7 Offices & 10 Extra Care Schemes

Located across North East England

Established in 1986

Recruitment Offices

Durham

01388 768 271

South Tyneside

0191 7169 200

Teesside

01429 225700

Gateshead

0191 389 7777

Newcastle

0191 4292 344

If you become a Carer with us and refer a friend

You can earn up to £300*

*Terms and conditions apply
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Looking for Care? Contact Your Local Office

If you would like to talk to us regarding our care services, contact your local office on one of the below phone numbers or you can email us by clicking on the envelope icon relating to your location.

Accessible Care Services
All Care (GB) Limited
Call-In Homecare
CRT Care Services
Diamond Quality Care Services
Hartwig Care Limited
Homecarers Care Services
Ideal Complex Care
Lauriem Complete Care

Looking for a Career in Care? Contact Your Local Office for our Job Vacancies

Would you like to make a difference to the life of someone in your community and have a career in care that is rewarding and challenging? If the answer is yes, then we want to hear from you. Contact your local office below for more information.

Accessible Care Services
All Care (GB) Limited
Call-In Homecare
CRT Care Services
Diamond Quality Care Services
Hartwig Care Limited
Homecarers Care Services
Ideal Complex Care
Lauriem Complete Care