Care and Compliance Manager (Nurse Qualified)

Harbour Healthcare Ltd; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Harbour Healthcare Ltd in Stockport recruits a Care and Compliance Manager (Nurse Qualified) to lead a Care Services Support Team across our Cheshire region. The role drives quality improvements in care homes and aligns operations with regulatory expectations.

You must be a qualified Nurse with auditing experience to deliver governance, policy development, and evidence-based improvements for resident safety and care quality. DBS checks apply for all positions.

Qualifications

• Auditing experience in a clinical environment.
• Post basic clinical qualification (teaching and assessing/Infection Control etc.).

Responsibilities

• Conduct a detailed suite of quality audits of each Care Home against KPIs and CQC KLOEs.
• Develop action plans to deliver sustained improvements.
• Monitor progress of Service Improvement Plans and report non-compliance to the Director.
• Assist in standardisation of documentation and best practice.
• Participate in Governance Meetings and present audit results.
• Assist the Company with the development of care related Policies and Procedures.

Skills

Nurse

Auditing

Education

Post basic clinical qualification

Job description

Care and Compliance Manager (Nurse Qualified)

Care and Compliance Manager- Stockport / Cheshire Region

Care Homes

Up to £55kpa plus £5,000 Care Allowance and Mileage.

You must be a qualified Nurse, and have previous experience of managing care homes.

This role is designed to lead a team to support a home in their quest for quality, ensuring that improvements in care are realised and sustainable. The Care and Compliance Manager will lead a Care Services Support Team to work alongside operational teams to support rapid change, identifying issues and implementing solutions to promote the safety of our residents, coach the home care team to enable them to provide a high standard of care and gain the confidence of our regulators and commissioners. This role is responsible for providing support with various operational challenges, this could be interim management of a home, designing staffing models for a home, liaising with regulators, ultimately organising the production and gathering of evidence to demonstrate that a home is modelling best practice care and that the residents have a special experience.

You must be a qualified Nurse.

Who are Harbour Healthcare?

We are a Family run business with 41Care Homes across the UK and are growing year by year.

Inclusion is how we unleash the power of diversity. We strive to foster belonging and empowerment at work. Harbour Healthcare listen and engage with our diverse communities, and we value teamwork within our diverse workplace.

Having family traditions at heart we don’t see ourselves as corporate, we believe results come through our nurtured people, and the quality of care we provide.

We are Inclusive!

We are Caring!

We have Integrity!

Job Purpose:

Delivery of quality performance targets for Harbour care homes.

Establish and maintain relationship management with key external stakeholders.

Support Company Directors in the delivery of strategic objectives.

They will advise new Managers and Managers who are experiencing challenges.

Principal Role & Accountabilities:

Conduct a detailed suite of quality audits of each Care Home, evaluating outcomes and performance against Key Performance targets and CQC KLOEs.

Develop action plans set to deliver sustained improvements against identified actions.

Monitor progress of Service Improvement Plan and report any non-compliance/non-cooperation from Home staff to the Director of Quality and Governance.

Assist in agreeing on standardisation of documentation and best practice

Participate in Governance Meetings.

Attend meetings as required to present audit results and discuss actions to address underperforming homes.

Assist the Company with the development of care related Policies and Procedures.

Requirements

Auditing experience in a clinical environment

Post basic clinical qualification (teaching and assessing/Infection Control etc.)

We care about you sharing and demonstrating our values, which are, -

Seeing the possibilities to make positive difference.

Valuing and celebrating individuality and diversity.

Supporting rights, needs, choices and dreams.

Being responsible, sustainable, and innovative in our work.

If you do share our values and care, we want you!

Please note that all our positions require an Enhanced DBS check in relation to Children and Adults.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.

Company: Harbour Healthcare Ltd

Salary: £55,000 to £55,000 a year

Hours: Full-time

Location: SK4 1RD

Job type: Permanent

Posting date: 13 Oct 2026

Closing date: 10 Nov 2026