General Manager - FTC

Avery Healthcare Group; Chester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading elder care provider in Chester is seeking a General Manager to oversee care delivery and staff management. The role involves ensuring high-quality, person-centred care while meeting regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will have at least four years of experience in a similar environment and a Level 5 Management qualification. Responsibilities include team leadership, recruitment, and maintaining safe staffing levels. Join this award-winning team and make a meaningful difference in residents' lives.

Qualifications

• Minimum of four years of experience in a similar care environment.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• Effective communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a team to deliver excellent person-centred quality care.
• Manage recruitment, retention, and development of staff.
• Act as focal contact for residents and professionals.
• Ensure safe staffing levels are maintained.
• Provide ongoing inspirational leadership.

Skills

Leadership and Management

Effective Communication

IT Competence

Education

Leadership and Management Level 5 qualification or equivalent

Job description

General Manager – Elder Care Home

As General Manager, your focus will be to lead and inspire a team to deliver excellent person‑centred quality care to residents in a safe, caring, and stimulating environment, whilst meeting regulatory requirements, professional and statutory standards, and business performance targets.

Key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the consistent delivery of high‑quality, person‑centred care based on best practice.
• Being responsible for the ongoing recruitment, retention, and development of staff within the home.
• Acting as the focal point for contact with residents, their relatives, visitors, and health and social care professionals involved in residents’ wellbeing.
• Ensuring safe staffing levels are reviewed and maintained in accordance with occupancy and dependency.
• Providing ongoing inspirational leadership and management to the staff team.
• Ensuring costs are well managed and maintained within budgetary controls by reviewing regularly and monitoring stock.

Requirements for this role:

• DBS disclosure check (cost met by Avery Healthcare).
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

We seek a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join our award‑winning team. If you have a minimum of four years of experience in a similar care environment, a Leadership and Management Level 5 qualification (or equivalent), excellent leadership and management skills, effective communication abilities, and IT competence, we encourage you to apply.

We value caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that we do. Join us and help create meaningful lives together.