Care Co-ordinator

We are recruiting for a Care Co-ordinator to a specialist Brain Injury case management practice in Saffron Walden, Essex.  Ideally  you will reside local to Saffron Walden. The Care Co-ordinator will support  recruitment and compliance activities. Reporting to the Senior Care Coordinator, you would be responsible for understanding the patients' care needs, advertising and interviewing candidates to work as carers, managing the on boarding and compliance of new hires as well as organising and tracking the training schedules and relevant clinical registrations. This is to join a close knit team in a busy and highly fulfilling role.

Key responsibilities:

• Carry out an effective and timely recruitment process when hiring new support workers for patients
• Work with Case Managers to develop and update job descriptions, taking into account individual patients' needs.
• Work alongside Case Managers to develop selection criteria, carry out interviews and coordinate screening calls from relevant applicants
• Manage the Recruitment inbox and respond to queries in a timely fashion
• Create offer letters and contracts, issue these to successful applicants and manage their on boarding
• Manage the background checks (DBS), process qualifications and other relevant paperwork
• Arrange inductions and training
• Monitor compliance with relevant laws, regulations and internal policies, escalating issues to the Registered Manager
• Various administrative duties to support the varied compliance and regulatory activities across the business

This role would suit an enthusiastic, highly organised and diligent individual who will ideally have a background in the care sector (office experience is essential).

Essential skills/experience:

• • Experience working in the care sector
• • Understanding of health and social care recruitment requirements
• • Understanding of processes within the health and social care sector including training and monitoring of staff
• • Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• • Great communication and people skills including face to face, telephone and virtual meetings
• • Office administration experience including excellent standard of IT skills

Desirable skills/experience:

• Knowledge of CQC registration requirements for health and social care providers

This role would suit someone from the following backgrounds: carer, support worker, recruitment coordinator, recruitment administrator, care administrator

Hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5.30pm (office based). Salary £24-25k plus an excellent range of benefits including:

• Private health plan
• Death in service policy
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Birthday day off
• Generous sick pay and maternity pay
• Annual pay review

For further information apply today or contact Kim Baker, ENS Recruitment.