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Rajalben Odedra

Hinckley,United Kingdom

Summary

Dedicated and compassionate care professional with 6 years of experience in residential care settings, including recent experience as a Care Home Team Leader. Proven ability to lead and support care teams, implement person-centred care plans, and maintain high standards of dignity, safety, and wellbeing for residents. Skilled in shift coordination, medication management, and supporting staff development. Known for building positive relationships with residents, families, and colleagues, and committed to progressing into a Care Home Manager role to lead services with compassion, professionalism, and a strong understanding of day-to-day care operations.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Team Leader

Gokul vrindavan care home
Leicester, United Kingdom
01.2025 - 06.2025
  • Support the Registered Manager with the day-to-day running of the home and ensure that the service operates in line with Ofsted regulations and person-centred practices.
  • Lead shifts and oversee staff teams, ensuring a consistent, structured, and elderly-focused approach.
  • Assist with recruitment, staff supervision, development, and performance management.
  • Work closely with elders, their families, social workers, and health professionals to support each residents individual needs.
  • Promote positive behaviour support strategies and therapeutic approaches suitable for elders with learning disabilities and autism.
  • Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead when required and ensure safeguarding procedures are rigorously followed.
  • Develop, implement, and monitor care plans and risk assessments tailored to each elder's.
  • Ensure all documentation is accurate, timely, and complies with regulatory standards.
  • Team leader for the Registered Manager in their absence, including representing the home during inspections or external meetings.
  • Led team meetings for better coordination of care services across departments.
  • Worked closely with health professionals to coordinate specialist treatment for residents as required.
  • Facilitated training courses, increased staff competency levels.

Senior Health Care Assistant

Gokul vrindavan care home
Leicester
10.2024 - 01.2025
  • As a Senior carer I help people with their physical and emotional needs. I work in care home.
  • Personal care: Helping people with dressing, washing, using the toilet, and eating.
  • Monitoring health: Checking vital signs like blood pressure and heart rate, and taking temperature and weight.
  • Medication: Helping people take their medication, and filling in medication records.
  • Activities: Creating and leading activities to stimulate and engage people.
  • Communication: Communicating with families about their relative's progress.
  • Record-keeping: Maintaining records of daily activities, observations, and support.
  • Supervision: Supervising care workers, and providing training and support.
  • Emergency cover: Responding to emergencies and providing guidance and support.
  • Quality checks: Carrying out quality and support checks on care workers.
  • Policy adherence: Ensuring care is delivered in line with all relevant policies, procedures, and practices.
  • Confidentiality: Respecting the confidentiality of information.
  • Care plan: Needs to update care plan if any resident's got changes on their daily routine.
  • Food & fluids: Needs to check every resident Must score as if its high we need to update Nutrition care plan and pass the details to all staff.
  • As a senior carer I am reliable, honest, responsible, and I have good communication skills. Also as a senior carer I am able to work well under pressure and have a cheerful disposition.

HR Advisor

Aspire UK
Leicester
10.2023 - 12.2024
  • I'm responsible for coordinating hiring activities, scheduling interviews, screening resumes, and maintaining candidate databases.
  • I assist with onboarding processes and handle administrative tasks such as drafting offer letters and preparing job ads.
  • Additionally, I support interviewers and candidates by managing calendars and resolving issues promptly.
  • As a Recruitment Assistant I play a crucial role in ensuring efficient and organized recruitment processes within an organization.
  • Responsibilities include: Supporting recruiting teams with clerical duties, scheduling interviews and balancing calendars for interviewers and candidates, helping with initial applicant screening, maintaining our candidate database, and handling administrative paperwork.
  • Undertake clerical duties (e.g. answering emails and drafting offer letters).
  • Prepare and post job ads online.
  • Help with resume screening and initial phone screens.
  • Schedule interviews and keep calendars for all hiring teams and candidates.
  • Greet and assist interviewees onsite.
  • Coordinate travel for fly-in candidates.
  • Process background checks.
  • Maintain candidate database.
  • Handle records and paperwork.
  • Resolve issues as fast as possible (e.g. interview cancellations).
  • Assist with new hire onboarding (e.g. preparing documents, coordinating orientation agendas).
  • Communicate with candidates promptly and assist them when they come in for interviews.
  • Use recruiting software to keep track of open roles.
  • Coordinate drug tests and background checks.
  • Participate in recruiting events.
  • Promote positive candidate experience throughout the hiring process.
  • Greeting and assisting interviewees onsite.
  • Following up with candidates during the recruitment process, like shortlisting callbacks or rejection emails.
  • Resolving issues such as interview cancellations swiftly.
  • Assisting successful candidates with the onboarding process, including preparing documents and coordinating orientation agendas.

Office Administrator Assistant [coordinator]

A La Carte Recruitment
07.2022 - 11.2023
  • Making Rota for all staff.
  • Managing people to send in all the departments.
  • Re-booking all the people.
  • Managing all things in system.
  • Putting hours, supporting inside all the departments.

Health Care Assistant

Gokul vrindavan care home
01.2023 - 02.2023
  • Perform light housekeeping duties; cooking, cleaning, washing and errands.
  • Give medicine to all patients.
  • Report any variation in client's physical or mental health to care manager.
  • Change bed linens, wash and iron patients' laundry, and clean patients' quarters.

Customer Service Advisor

A la Carte Agency
Leicester
07.2022 - 12.2022
  • A la carte co-ordinator and call centre assistant.
  • Customer services, paper work, admin work.
  • Computer skills.
  • Management.
  • Pay query.
  • Helping Recruitment Team.
  • Time sheets.
  • Communicate with peoples Helping them and try best to resolve their issues.

Health Care Assistant

Fosse Healthcare
Leicester, United Kingdom
07.2022 - 11.2022
  • Perform light housekeeping duties; cooking, cleaning, washing and errands.
  • Give medicine to all patients.
  • Report any variation in client's physical or mental health to care manager.
  • Change bed linens, wash and iron patients' laundry, and clean patients' quarters.

Senior Health Care Assistant

leaholme residential care home
Leicester
07.2021 - 07.2022
  • Plan, purchase, prepare, and serve meals to older people.
  • Perform light housekeeping duties; cooking, cleaning, washing and errands.
  • Give medicine to all patients.
  • Report any variation in client's physical or mental health to care manager.
  • Change bed linens, wash and iron patients' laundry, and clean patients' quarters.

Homecare worker

Select Care Services Ltd
Leicester
04.2021 - 07.2021
  • Looking after patients/customers and Administering them correct medication accordingly.

Food operative

A La Carte Recruitment
Leicester
11.2020 - 04.2021
  • Making food recipes.
  • Paper work.
  • Food packing.
  • Managing lines.
  • Bookings food ingredients to warehouse and also book out.
  • Typing in computer what we do everyday.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Sanskrit Literature and Language in Sanskrit Literature and Language

Dr. V. R. Godhaniya college
India
06.2017 - 04.2020

Skills

Leadership & Management

  • Strong leadership abilities with experience managing multidisciplinary care teams
  • Skilled in staff recruitment, training, and performance management
  • Proven ability to maintain high occupancy and resident satisfaction

Care & Clinical Knowledge

  • In-depth understanding of person-centred care and safeguarding procedures
  • Familiar with CQC standards and compliance (or local equivalent)
  • Experienced in care planning, medication administration, and risk assessments

Communication & Interpersonal Skills

  • Compassionate communicator with residents, families, and professionals
  • Skilled in conflict resolution and maintaining a positive care environment
  • Experienced in liaising with external healthcare providers and inspectors

Operational & Administrative Skills

  • Effective budget and resource management
  • Accurate and confidential record-keeping using digital care platforms
  • Proficient with care planning software and Microsoft Office tools
  • Patient records maintenance
  • Healthcare software mastery
  • Discipline policy enforcement
  • Resilience under stress
  • Administration duties efficiency
  • Emergency response preparation
  • INVOLVE training
  • Fire safety trained
  • Staff supportive

Certification

  • Health and Social Care Management Level 5 — May 2025
  • Medication Administration in Home Care (Level 8) — September 2025
  • Dementia Awareness Level 2 — November 2024
  • Safeguarding of Vulnerable Adults Level 2 — November 2024
  • Moving and Assisting of People Level 2 — November 2024
  • Food Safety Level 2 — November 2024
  • Manual Handling — November 2024
  • Autism Awareness — November 2024
  • Health and Safety Awareness — November 2024
  • Mental Capacity Act (MCA) Level 2 — November 2024
  • Fire Safety Awareness — November 2024

Timeline

Team Leader

Gokul vrindavan care home
01.2025 - 06.2025

Senior Health Care Assistant

Gokul vrindavan care home
10.2024 - 01.2025

HR Advisor

Aspire UK
10.2023 - 12.2024

Health Care Assistant

Gokul vrindavan care home
01.2023 - 02.2023

Office Administrator Assistant [coordinator]

A La Carte Recruitment
07.2022 - 11.2023

Customer Service Advisor

A la Carte Agency
07.2022 - 12.2022

Health Care Assistant

Fosse Healthcare
07.2022 - 11.2022

Senior Health Care Assistant

leaholme residential care home
07.2021 - 07.2022

Homecare worker

Select Care Services Ltd
04.2021 - 07.2021

Food operative

A La Carte Recruitment
11.2020 - 04.2021

Bachelor of Arts - Sanskrit Literature and Language in Sanskrit Literature and Language

Dr. V. R. Godhaniya college
06.2017 - 04.2020
Rajalben Odedra