Deputy Manager

Anchor Hanover; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 33,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care provider in Doncaster is seeking a Deputy Manager for Hatfield House. This role requires strong leadership and experience in residential care, ensuring high standards of quality and compliance. You will collaborate with the Home Manager, guide the care team, and maintain excellence in service delivery. Competitive salary of £33,000 and opportunities for professional development are offered. Join a supportive environment where your leadership will shape care quality.

Benefits

Comprehensive training and development

Colleague discounts

Wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Proven Deputy Manager experience in a residential or dementia care home.
• Strong leadership skills with confidence in managing teams.
• Experience in compliance, audits, and quality assurance.

Responsibilities

• Provide strong leadership to the care team.
• Guide and mentor Team Leaders.
• Carry out daily quality checks and compliance monitoring.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication

Problem solving

Flexibility for shifts

Education

Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care

Working towards Level 4

Job description

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Deputy Manager - Hatfield House, Doncaster
Salary: £33,000 per annum
Hours: 42 per week | 12 hour shifts | Rota including weekdays and weekends

Are you an experienced Deputy Manager in a care home and ready to bring your leadership expertise to a well respected, thriving service? If you're passionate about exceptional care, confident in managing teams, and motivated to make a meaningful impact every day, Hatfield House in Doncaster would love to welcome you.

Why Hatfield House

Hatfield House is a well established and vibrant residential and dementia care home set in the heart of Doncaster. With modern facilities, a supportive leadership culture, and a warm, family focused atmosphere, we are known for delivering care with dignity, respect, and genuine compassion.

Our home is proud of its strong community spirit and committed staff team, many of whom have been with us for years. This is a place where residents feel truly valued, and colleagues feel supported, recognised, and empowered. Joining Hatfield House means stepping into a home where high standards are celebrated and where your leadership genuinely shapes the culture and quality of care.

About the Role

This is an exciting and hands on leadership role that is perfect for someone who thrives on visibility, teamwork, and high quality operational standards. You will work closely with the Home Manager to maintain excellence across all areas of care.

In this role, you will:

• Provide strong and supportive leadership to the care team
• Guide and mentor Team Leaders, promoting consistency across all shifts
• Be highly present on the floor, leading by example in best practice
• Carry out daily quality checks, audits, and compliance monitoring
• Drive continuous improvement across the home
• Build trusting relationships with residents, families, and professionals
• Support with rota planning, care delivery, and safe medication management

About You - What We Are Looking For

To ensure the high standards at Hatfield House are maintained, we are seeking someone with:

• Proven Deputy Manager experience in a residential or dementia care home
• A Level 3 qualification in Health and Social Care or working towards Level 4
• Strong leadership skills with the confidence to guide and support a large team
• Experience in compliance, audits, and quality assurance
• Excellent communication, organisation, and problem solving abilities
• A passion for delivering outstanding, person centred care
• Flexibility to work a 12 hour shift pattern, including some weekends

If you have managed staff teams within a care home and understand the responsibilities that come with delivering high quality care, this could be the ideal next step.

Why Join Anchor

At Anchor, we are proud to be England's largest not for profit provider of care for older people. We invest in our colleagues and offer:

• Comprehensive training and development including leadership pathways
• Support to progress professional qualifications
• Exclusive colleague discounts across retail, leisure, and wellbeing services
• Wellbeing support, financial guidance, and life assurance
• A values led culture where people truly matter

Become Part of Something Meaningful

If you are an experienced Deputy Manager with the passion and expertise to help lead Hatfield House to continued success, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Apply today and take your next step with Anchor, where leadership, compassion, and quality care come together.

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Hatfield House in Doncaster is home to well trained and helpful staff with rooms for up to 49 residents. At Anchor, we pride ourselves in providing 24-hour care and specialised services for elderly people, the beauty of our grounds, the quality of our catering and our engaging activities we deliver.

• Dementia friendly environment with several themed areas
• Rated good by CQC
• Dementia champions in the home that support and mentor new care staff to provide excellent dementia care

Anchor - a great place to work

Anchor is England's largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We're not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we'll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts

Mental health support

Flexible working options

Finance

• Pension plan - contribute between 4% and 8% and we'll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, and more

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated rewards website

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a member of Inclusive Employers, a Stonewall Diversity Champion and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant and HouseProud Pledge schemes.