Home Manager

Guthrie House Care Home; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40% annual bonus

Private medical insurance

Generous annual leave entitlement

Job summary

Guthrie House Care Home in Edinburgh is seeking a decisive Home Manager to transform a care home with proven potential. The role requires a Registered Nurse with active NMC registration and a strong track record of delivering improvements in wellbeing, leadership, and governance.

The successful candidate will lead a capable team, embed clinical practice improvements, and drive occupancy recovery while maintaining high standards of care.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with active NMC registration.
• Proven track record turning around a nursing home.
• Experience increasing occupancy and reducing agency use.
• Strong governance and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Embed and sustain improvements in clinical practice and care planning.
• Lead staffing oversight and reduce agency use.
• Strengthen governance and build relationships with regulators and HSCP.
• Grow occupancy responsibly and drive commercial recovery.

Skills

Nurse leadership

Clinical governance

Commercial judgement

People management

Education

Registered Nurse with active NMC registration

SVQ Level 4 in Management and Leadership or equivalent

Job description

Home Manager Opportunity | Guthrie House Care Home, Edinburgh
£70,000 per annum + 40% Annual Bonus + Private Medical Insurance

The Opportunity

You have already proven that you can manage a care home. The opportunity at Guthrie House is to show that you can transform one.

Some Home Manager roles are about protecting an established success. This one is different. Guthrie House needs an accomplished nurse leader who can take a home with genuine potential, build confidence and consistency, and turn improvement into something residents, families and colleagues can see and feel.

The challenge is real, and we will not disguise it. The latest Care Inspectorate inspection graded the home as weak in wellbeing and leadership and identified eight requirements. Important improvement work is already under way and, by the time the new Home Manager joins, the immediate requirements are expected to have been addressed and the grades improved. The longer-term opportunity is to make that progress permanent.

This is not about arriving alone with an impossible brief. It is about taking the lead at the right moment, with a capable team forming around you and the full backing of a growing care group that knows what excellent care looks like.

Contract

• £70,000 per annum
• Opportunity to earn up to 40% of salary through our annual bonus scheme, measured across the calendar year
• Private medical insurance
• Generous annual leave entitlement

A Home Ready for Its Next Leader

Guthrie House is an 88-bed nursing and dementia care home in Liberton, Edinburgh. Beneath the recent regulatory position is a service with strong foundations: many committed and long-serving colleague, a compassionate care team and an established clinical and unit-management structure.

We have also recently appointed a talented and ambitious Deputy Manager with an exceptionally bright future in the care sector. Together with the clinical team and Unit Managers, the core leadership team is building well. The next Home Manager will inherit people with ability and commitment; the opportunity is to unite them behind one clear standard and one shared direction.

Fourteen beds are currently available, with an average weekly fee of approximately £1,118. Quality must come first, but as confidence and reputation grow, there is a meaningful commercial opportunity to rebuild occupancy and create a strong, sustainable home.

The Backing to Succeed

Turnaround is demanding work, but it should never be lonely work. The successful Home Manager will report to a highly regarded Regional Director and work closely with two experienced Regional Support Managers who understand the service and the improvement journey ahead.

Beyond the region, Guthrie House will have visible support from experienced operational, clinical and quality colleagues. This is not support promised from a distance. It is a team around the home, bringing oversight, expertise and practical help while giving the Home Manager the authority to lead.

What Success Will Look Like

The first priority will be to ensure the improvements already under way are embedded and sustained. Clinical practice, care planning, infection prevention, staffing oversight and quality assurance must become consistently strong, not simply compliant for the next inspection.

From there, success will be seen in a confident leadership team, a positive and accountable culture, improved retention, lower agency use and trusted relationships with residents, relatives, the Care Inspectorate and HSCP partners.

Commercial recovery will follow quality. The goal is to strengthen the home's reputation, grow occupancy responsibly and create a service known across

Edinburgh for excellent care, strong leadership and a team people want to join.

The reward is bigger than achieving a better inspection result. It is the chance to build a home you are proud to put your name to and to create one of the defining achievements of your career.

Is This Your Kind of Challenge?

This opportunity will suit a Registered Nurse with active NMC registration who has already successfully managed within a nursing care-home environment and can evidence meaningful improvement. We want to understand what you inherited, what you changed, how you brought people with you and what became better because of your leadership.

You may have completed a full turnaround or led a service through increased regulatory scrutiny. Either way, you will understand how to translate an action plan into everyday practice, strengthen governance and create a culture in which high standards are owned by the whole team.

Your leadership style will be collaborative and coaching, but not passive. You will be able to set clear expectations, address difficult issues and develop good people. Strong commercial judgement is equally important, including experience of increasing occupancy, reducing agency reliance and managing performance without losing sight of the residents behind every decision.

You will also be credible with external stakeholders and confident building constructive relationships with the Care Inspectorate, HSCP partners, families and healthcare professionals.

An SVQ Level 4 qualification in Management and Leadership, or the recognised equivalent required for registration, is essential.

For the right leader, success here will be noticed. You will have the opportunity to shape an important home, work with respected senior leaders and build a career within a group where talented people can progress as the organisation grows.

If this opportunity makes you pause, reflect on what you have already achieved and wonder what you could build next, we would like to hear from you.