Registered Care Home Manager

Exemplar Health Care; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme KPI upon meeting KPIs

Bupa health care cover

Life assurance

RCNi Learning platform access

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Excellent pension plan

Job summary

Exemplar Health Care is seeking a Home Manager for Thames House in Rochdale. You will lead a nurse-led complex care home, delivering person-centred care with a focus on quality and continuous improvement.

You will shape the service, drive team performance, and manage governance, occupancy, and budgets from a forward-thinking base. A strong nursing background and leadership experience are essential to succeed.

Qualifications

• First-level nursing registration with a valid NMC PIN.
• Minimum of three years management experience in a complex care setting.
• Strong communication and relationship-building with local commissioners.
• Ability to lead a team and manage multiple priorities in a demanding environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide person-centred, quality-driven care to residents and lead continuous improvement.
• Lead, coach and develop the home team to meet KPIs and quality standards.
• Oversee recruitment and staff development to ensure service delivery.
• Manage referrals and occupancy to optimise bed utilisation.
• Collect, analyse and interpret data to inform decisions.
• Oversee budgeting and financial management and sustain business performance.

Skills

Team leadership

Communication skills

Time management

Relationship building

Data analysis

Financial management

Governance

Nursing leadership

Education

Nursing qualification with NMC PIN

Tools

RCNi Learning platform

Data management systems

Job description

Care home: Thames House - Rochdale

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 Thames House, Rochdale.

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 Thames House

Thames House is a nurse-led complex care home in Rochdale supporting adults with complex mental health, neurological, and physical health needs.

Thames House has 20 en-suite bedrooms across two small units, creating a homely and supportive environment thats responsive to individual needs. Our colleagues provide 24-hour nursing care for adults with complex, co-occurring needs, helping people stay well, maintain their independence, and live a meaningful life.

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.

You're 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.

Please note, this role is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates without an existing visa or right to work in the UK are unlikely to be suitable for the post.