Field Care Supervisor
Learn why field care supervisors love working with Superior Healthcare.
Recruiting field care supervisor
Superior Healthcare provides specialist nurse-led care in the community to children, young people and adults who live with ongoing life-limiting and potentially unpredictable conditions.
Our field care supervisors play a crucial role in our complex care team, working full-time to support our specialist services, which deliver over 650,000 hours of community home care each year.
What is a Field Care Supervisor?
Field care supervisors work closely with clients in the community to ensure they receive exceptional service from a well-trained, enthusiastic, and compassionate team.
Working closely with a Nurse Manager, field care supervisors oversee the care of a small caseload of clients with diverse complex care needs, who require interventions like ventilation, gastrostomy, and bowel management.
What does a Field Care Supervisor do?
Our field care supervisors act as a link between our care and nursing teams, clients, and nurse managers. They have the privilege of implementing care plans, providing support, and supplying training. They make sure that the clients’ needs and goals remain at the forefront of their care provisions. Field care supervisors find it very satisfying to see the care package and team they supported work successfully.
Day-to-day tasks
The beauty of this role is that no two days or weeks are the same. It keeps you on your toes, ensuring you’re never bored or stuck in a routine.
One day, you might be supervising inductions, meeting new clients, and ensuring your healthcare assistants receive the training they need.
The next, you could be working hands-on within a care package and providing clinical care, such as PEG feeding, tracheostomy care, and ventilator management.
Supporting clients
One of the most rewarding aspects of being a Field Care Supervisor is your ability to make a tangible difference in clients’ lives. Field care supervisors help clients achieve their goals and lead fulfilling lives by ensuring that care plans are tailored to individual needs and preferences.
The satisfaction of seeing clients happy and care teams working seamlessly together is unparalleled. This sense of accomplishment and the opportunity to positively impact lives are what field care supervisors at Superior Healthcare cherish most about their role.
Team work
As a Field Care Supervisor, you’ll work closely with a small team of healthcare assistants, managing and supporting them directly.
In addition, you’ll collaborate with nurse managers to implement and oversee care plans.
This might involve attending care needs assessments with nurse managers and then organising training for healthcare assistants based on those assessments.
Extensive training
As a new member of our complex care team, you’ll begin with specialist training provided by our clinical educators. Your onboarding starts with a five-day induction, covering all aspects of complex care. This is a great opportunity to refresh your skills and meet the other registered nurses and healthcare assistants in our team.
After your induction, you’ll have access to our free online training, which is continuously updated by our in-house clinical experts to keep up with industry developments. This training is an ongoing resource you can use at any time. You can also book yourself into our paid, in-person training sessions, such as tracheostomy care, airway management, or enteral feeding.
Our field care supervisors come from diverse backgrounds, including paramedics, military nurses, and healthcare assistants from our complex care teams who have gained the necessary skills and diploma qualifications to step into this role.
Benefits of being a Field Care Supervisor
We offer a wide range of career development opportunities to help you grow within and enjoy your role as a Field Care Supervisor at Superior Healthcare. If you possess ambition, skills, and commitment, we can provide the support and opportunities you need to reach your care career goals. Our benefits include:
- Full training, including theory and simulated practice, followed by a tailored induction plan – all paid
- Opportunities for Diplomas and management qualifications
- Ongoing paid CPD training
- Pension contributions
- Employee Assistance Programme, offering up to six face-to-face counselling sessions
- Employee events throughout the year, including monthly Breakfast Club, May Wellbeing Week, summer BBQ, and Christmas party
- Christmas Saver scheme
- Menopause support from an in-house Menopause Champion
- Designated wellbeing team
- Reimbursed Blue Light Card
For us, it's personal
Superior Healthcare was founded in 2006 by Stewart Thorp, his father Charles, and Sarah Richards after Stewart’s brother, Alex, sustained a traumatic brain injury and required 24-hour care.
When trying to organise at-home, 24-hour care for Alex, Stewart saw the need for a specialist provider that could fit into family life and continue Alex’s rehabilitation.
Superior Healthcare was formed to address this need. Since then, we have been providing support to individuals living with complex care needs.
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