Care Home Deputy Manager

Integrated Care System; Exeter; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Exeter is seeking a Care Home Deputy Manager to support quality care delivery. You will collaborate with the General Manager, ensuring high standards, motivating the team, and enhancing residents' quality of life. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in managing health needs, safeguarding, and risk assessments. This position offers a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, including bonuses and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Free learning and development

Profit share scheme

Holiday and leisure discounts

Nurse Mentor bonus

Tier 2 visa application fee coverage for eligible nurses

Qualifications

• Experience in helping residents with diverse health needs.
• Successful track record of managing safeguarding investigations.
• Understanding of clinical risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example and monitor care standards.
• Ensure regulatory compliance through audits.
• Develop and deliver strategies for resident care.

Skills

Experience in managing different health needs

Managing safeguarding investigations

Clinical risk assessments

HR experience

Sales and marketing knowledge

Budget management

Job description

As the Care Home Deputy Manager of a Barchester care home, you will play a vital role in supporting the delivery of high-quality care to residents. You will work closely with the General Manager, taking on leadership duties in their absence, and be responsible for ensuring care standards, motivating your team, and overseeing the well-being of every resident.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will be expected to lead by example, monitor standards through regular audits and supervised clinical practice, and ensure regulatory compliance. You will develop and deliver strategies to help you achieve your goals and provide the best possible quality of life for the residents. You will need experience in managing different health needs, safeguarding investigations, and clinical risk assessments, as well as HR, sales, marketing, and budget management skills.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of care homes in the UK, renowned for its commitment to delivering exceptional care. The company operates a network of over 200 care homes across the country, offering a range of services including residential, nursing, and dementia care.

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs Care Home Deputy Manager of a Barchester care home, you'll support the delivery of the quality care we're known for. Working closely with the General Manager and taking on leadership duties in their absence, you can expect to help with everything from ensuring care standards to motivating your team. You'll inspire a multidisciplinary team to make sure they help every resident to enjoy the best possible quality of life. That means leading by example and monitoring standards through regular audits, supervised clinical practice and checking our regulatory compliance. You'll set the highest standards and draw on your skills to develop and deliver strategies that will help you achieve your goals.

ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Care Home Deputy Manager you'll need experience in helping residents with different health needs and a successful track record of managing safeguarding investigations and clinical risk assessments. We'll also look for some HR experience, a strong knowledge of sales and marketing and an understanding of budget management. Finally, you'll be compassionate, resilient and determined to deliver quality care in our engaging and energetic environment.

REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as a competitive salary, Barchester offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:

Free learning and development Automatic enrolment into our profit share scheme A range of holiday, retail and leisure discounts Nurse Mentor and Refer a Friend bonus schemes Offer to pay Tier 2 visa application fee for eligible nurses

If you'd like to use your clinical and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is a rewarding and empowering place to be.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• To be successful in this role, you will need experience in helping residents with different health needs and a proven track record of managing safeguarding investigations and clinical risk assessments. You should also have some HR experience, a strong knowledge of sales and marketing, and an understanding of budget management. Additionally, you should be compassionate, resilient, and determined to deliver quality care in an engaging and energetic environment.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.