Deputy Manager

Recruitment Panda Ltd; Caernarfon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare staffing agency is seeking a Deputy Manager (Nurse Qualified) for a dementia specialist service in Caernarfon, North Wales. This role emphasizes leadership and clinical responsibility, allowing you to support staff while utilizing your nursing skills. The position offers a salary between £40k and £45k, with real development opportunities. The ideal candidate will be NMC registered and experienced in older people's or dementia care. Confidential applications are welcome.

Qualifications

• Experience in older people's or dementia care is essential.
• Confidence in making clinical decisions is necessary.
• Ability to support and guide staff effectively.

Responsibilities

• Use nursing skills regularly in a practical environment.
• Support nurses and care staff by providing guidance.
• Engage in care planning, medication governance, and clinical risk management.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical judgment

Mentoring

Care planning

Communication

Education

NMC registered

Job description

Deputy Manager (Nurse Qualified)

Gwynedd, North Wales Coast

Not every nurse wants to become a manager. Some want to become better at leading. This role exists for that reason.

It sits within a dementia specialist nursing service that values calm clinical judgement, steady leadership and relationships built over time. A new Home Manager has recently stepped into post, bringing warmth, openness and a genuine belief that good leadership starts with how people are treated day to day. The next step is finding a Deputy who wants to stand alongside that, not underneath it.

You’ll still use your nursing skills here. Regularly. Meaningfully. This is not a desk role in disguise. Your presence matters on the floor, in handovers, and in the moments where clinical decisions carry weight.

For Senior Nurses or Clinical Leads who are already mentoring others, leading shifts, shaping care standards and being relied upon when things feel complex, much of this role will already feel familiar. The difference is having the space, support and title to do it properly.

You’ll support nurses and care staff who want guidance rather than oversight. You’ll be trusted with care planning, medication governance and clinical risk, and you’ll step in confidently when leadership is needed because it makes sense, not because it’s your turn.

This isn’t a stepping‑stone role dressed up as progression. It’s a partnership.

Joining a leadership team while it’s still forming is rare. Standards are high, but the tone is being set now. Culture is being shaped now. The right Deputy will have a voice, not just responsibilities.

Requirements

You'll need to be NMC registered, with experience in older people’s or dementia care. You’ll need to be the kind of nurse colleagues naturally turn to. What you won’t need is bravado.

Remuneration and development

The salary sits at between £40k to £45k. Support is real. Development is encouraged. And the pace allows you to lead without losing the clinical identity that brought you into nursing in the first place.

Application

If you’re quietly curious, that’s usually the right place to start. Confidential conversations welcomed. Apply in confidence with a CV (even if it is not up to date) or call Tim the Principal Consultant working closely with this employer.