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Salary: Up to £32,000 per annum depending on experience, plus quarterly performance related bonus.

Are you looking for a care management role with a difference? One that enables you to be truly person centred, focusing on supporting one client to live their life to the fullest? If so, this could be the role for you.

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic team leader to guide and inspire a small, dedicated team of live-in carers who support one remarkable woman living life her way. She has a learning disability and epilepsy, so it is essential you have experience in these areas. Living in her own home in the Roehampton (Southwest London) area with 24-hour support, she privately arranges her own care and enjoys a vibrant lifestyle.

This isn’t just a job. You’ll be part of something meaningful, dynamic and deeply rewarding. Your leadership will help ensure she continues to have the very best experiences possible.

About the individual you’ll support:

She is fun-loving, independent, and fortunate to enjoy 2:1 support, which allows her to live life to the fullest. Her regular activities include:

• Relaxing monthly spa days
• Lunch outings and social trips
• Visits to exhibitions, attractions and new places
• Opportunities for new experiences and meaningful engagement
• Your leadership will help ensure each day is filled with enjoyment, dignity and choice

As team leader, you will:

• Provide day-to-day guidance, supervision and support to a close-knit team of carers
• Champion person-centred values, ensuring every interaction is respectful, empowering and shaped by what matters to our client
• Help maintain a warm, positive, high-quality support environment
• Coordinate routines, encourage creativity, and make sure the team is always striving for excellence
• Play a key role in enabling an active, exciting lifestyle

Why join our team?

• Great place to build your skills with ongoing professional development
• We celebrate our successes and genuinely care about our teams: celebrating work anniversaries, birthdays and organising team socials
• Free Employee Assistance Programme offering confidential advice and support
• We’re rated 5 stars for culture and management by our teams (source: Indeed)
• We’re an award-winning team – recognised for mental health and dementia care excellence (Home Care Awards 2025)
• Potential for quarterly performance-based bonus scheme
• Benefits package including: 33 days holiday per annum (pro rata and inclusive of bank holidays), NEST pension scheme, client referral scheme, family and friends’ discount, Blue Light Card

About you:

• A minimum of 3 years' experience in care, with a strong understanding of quality care practices
• Experience in supporting people with learning disabilities and epilepsy essential
• Strong communication and organisational skills
• Flexibility, to support at weekends and evenings
• Compassionate, proactive, and solution-focused
• Confident using IT systems (MS Office, care software)
• Knowledge of CQC standards
• NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care (or working towards it) preferred
• Driving licence and access to your own car is desirable

About Ashridge Home Care:

We’re a close-knit, privately-owned local care company where our exceptional team is at the heart of everything we do. United by a commitment to quality and the best outcomes for those we support, we take pride in our supportive and collaborative culture.

If you’re passionate about delivering exceptional, person-centred care; thrive on leading others and creating positive experiences, and you want to make a genuine difference every single day – we’d love to hear from you.

Ashridge Home Care is an equal opportunities employer, committed to diversity, inclusion and the safeguarding of adults at risk. Successful candidates will require an Enhanced DBS check.

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Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Profit sharing
• Referral programme

Work Location: In person