Care Coordinator

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
• Pay: £29,000.00 per year

Being a Care Coordinator with Westmorland Homecare is a very special job. You will have the chance to make a difference to people’s lives within your community, build significant professional relationships with clients, Home Care Assistants and health care professionals.

The role is based in our Kendal office on Highgate, Monday to Friday, 8am‑4pm and 9am‑5pm. You will also be part of the on‑call rota which involves taking the on‑call phone home on some evenings and weekends. Being a driver is essential for the role.

Everyone at Westmorland Homecare works in a way that enables us to deliver our values, in all that we do, every day:

• Kind – genuinely caring and respectful
• Innovative – pioneering fresh approaches to homecare
• Trusted – safe, reliable and professional
• Enriching – helping clients live happy, fulfilling lives

• Answering incoming calls in a
  positive, happy,and
  professional manner, making clients, staff, and potential candidates feel special and important
• Overall
  management and implementation of the recruitment strategy and process from enquiry to onboarding. Ensuring all applicants have full
  satisfactory references and
  DBS checks in a timely manner
• Managing
  recruitment advertising across
  job boards, social media
  , and
  printed publications alongside our social media manager
• Sourcing, planning and attending
  recruitment fairs, market stalls and
  community outreach events
• Being
  creative with recruitment campaigns and initiatives and thinking of ways outside the box to attract high quality applicants
• Supporting and
  nurturing desirable candidates through the recruitment process
• Ensuring new candidate
  personnel files are complete and compliant, including performing6 monthly audits to this effect
• Participate in a share of the
  on‑call rota out of hours
• Any other activities that may be necessary to meet the needs of the business

• Pro active and innovative approach to recruitment in the Health and Social care sector
• You must be comfortable delivering hands on care if required
• You must have a good level of computer / IT proficiency
• You must have a passion to help others, care for people and do something good for the community
• You must have an understanding of safeguarding procedures and protecting clients from harm or abuse
• You must have a good understanding of moving and handling procedures and various types of equipment
• You must be a driver with access to a vehicle
• Being caring and kind with a strong ability to connect with people and build relationships is important

• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount