Registered Care Home Manager

Exemplar Health Care; Castleford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent supervision

Pension plan

Bupa health care

Life assurance

RCNi Learning platform

24/7 counselling

Electric car scheme

Blue Light Card

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care seeks a Home Manager for Wheldale Heights in Castleford. You will be the heartbeat of the home, delivering person-centred care and leading a dedicated team to provide high-quality services.

The role offers autonomy, with responsibilities spanning quality improvement, team leadership, recruitment, occupancy, data-driven decision making and financial oversight. Prior senior nursing leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• NMC PIN registration required.
• Minimum 3 years of management experience in a care setting.
• Strong leadership and people-management skills.
• Excellent communication with local commissioners and professionals.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality initiatives and continuous improvement.
• Lead and develop the home team.
• Oversee recruitment and staff development.
• Manage referrals and occupancy to ensure stability.
• Collect, analyse and interpret data to support decision making.
• Oversee financial management within the home.
• Build and maintain relationships with customers and stakeholders to sustain business.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Communication

Time management

Nursing knowledge

Education

NMC PIN

Job description

Registered Care Home Manager When registering to this job board you will be redirected to the online application form. Please ensure that this is completed in full in order that your application can be reviewed.

Care home: Wheldale Heights - Castleford
Contract type: Full Time, 40 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Rate: Competitive salary-dependent on experience

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a forward-thinking and growing provider. Join us as our new Home Manager at Wheldale Heights, Castleford.

This role offers you the opportunity to shape your own service and team, and really make a difference to peoples lives in a purpose built, state of the art home.

We have innovative digital systems to support you in all aspects of running your home, so you can spend less time doing paperwork and more time with your team and the people you support.

For Managers wishing to develop and grow, our training is second to none. We have a range of in-house leadership and management development programmes to support your career development.

About Wheldale Heights

Located on Wheldon Road in Ferry Fryston, Wheldale Heights has 24 bedrooms across two small, purpose-built units, creating a homely and supportive environment thats more responsive to individual needs.

Wheldale Heights is split into two units, the Lynx Unit and the Orion Unit. The Lynx Unit is a male only unit, providing care for complex mental health needs arising from brain injury or neurological diagnosis, such as acquired brain injury or dementia. The Orion Unit provides care for complex mental health needs linked to the early to mid-stage of a neurological diagnosis such as Huntingdon's disease.

We are thrilled to share that Wheldale Heights achieved a Good rated CQC as of April 2026! Creating an ideal environment for a new Home Manager to lead an engaged and passionate team, as the home continues to strive for outstanding care!

About the role

As a Home Manager with Exemplar Health Care, you wont just manage your home, youll be the heartbeat of everything that happens there.

Youll be given a great deal of autonomy and will lead by example, driving your team and pushing for continuous improvement daily. Youll provide person-centred and quality driven care to ensure that you make every day better for the people who live and work in your home.

This is both an inward and outward focused position, demanding attention to multiple factors, including but not limited to:

• quality initiatives and improvement
• team leadership and management
• recruitment and colleague development
• referral management and occupancy
• data collection, analysis and interpretation
• financial management
• customer relationships and marketing to ensure business sustainability and success.

About you

Above all, youre someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You must also have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN.

As this is a leadership role, you should have a minimum of three years management experience, ideally in a complex care setting. The role is also ideal for an experienced Deputy Manager looking for the next step in their career.

Youre also someone with:

• a thorough understanding of nursing care best practice, sector specific and employer legislation and governance frameworks
• great communication skills, able to build relationships with local commissioners and professionals
• the ability to inspire, lead and manage a team
• excellent time management skills, able to manage conflicting priorities and meet deadlines
• an excellent range of clinical, business, digital and operational skills.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including:

• excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
• retail and lifestyle reward discounts
• excellent bonus scheme upon meeting KPIs
• excellent pension plan
• Bupa health care cover
• electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• life assurance
• paid access to the RCNi Learning platform
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.