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After making his debut as a substitute at QPR he's won a starting place in the centre of defence and has also taken over the captain's arm band from Wayne Thomas who himself had taken over from Frank Sinclair last summer.
Now he's ready to lead the Clarets to a first win under his captaincy and he told the local media this week that he is settling well into life at Turf Moor.
""It's all been fine for me really. Defenders more often that not don't come into successful, top of the table teams because things are then usually fine," he said.
"That's something I haven't got a problem with. I feel that I've been welcomed, the team spirit is good, the confidence is there, and we've got good players, a good manager and good staff. Everything seems right to me.
"Results haven't gone well for us just now and that's why I think I've been brought here, to try to improve the team and the squad and also to bring my experiences to the team and hopefully to improve us, and I hope to do that. I hope I'm doing that now but I hope to get better at that the more settled I get in the team."
Caldwell believes the much needed win will not be far away and has seen the improvement in form in recent games. He's become captain of a side that, despite the results, doesn't lack confidence. "We're playing with confidence. It's hard for anybody to pinpoint the problem and the manager must be pulling his hair out because it's hard to see why it's happening. It's now about doing things on the park and working hard.
"Somehow we seem to have got in a bit of rut with some poor performances, and some decent performances where we haven't had the rub of the green. That's football, but it will come back if we keep doing the right things and keep working hard."