Registered Care Home Manager

Exemplar Health Care; West Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent care provider is seeking a Registered Care Home Manager for Lepton Heights in Huddersfield. You will lead a dedicated team, shape service delivery, and ensure quality person-centered care in a new purpose-built facility. Candidates should have a valid NMC PIN and at least three years of management experience. This role offers excellent training and a competitive salary with numerous perks and career growth opportunities.

Benefits

Excellent supervision and peer support

Retail and lifestyle reward discounts

Bonus scheme upon meeting KPIs

Pension plan

Bupa health care cover

Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

Paid NMC membership

Paid access to the RCNi Learning platform

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years management experience, ideally in a complex care setting.
• Understanding of nursing care best practices and sector-specific legislation.
• Ability to inspire and manage a team.

Responsibilities

• Manage the care home and lead the team effectively.
• Ensure quality and person-centered care.
• Oversee financial management and occupancy.

Skills

Leadership

Nursing care best practices

Communication skills

Time management

Clinical skills

Education

First-level nursing registration with a valid NMC PIN

Job description

Registered Care Home Manager

Care home: Lepton Heights
Contract type: Full Time, 40 hours per week.
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 Lepton Heights, Fenay Bridge, Huddersfield.

This role offers you the opportunity to shape your own service and team, and really make a difference to people’s 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 Lepton Heights

Located on Wakefield Road in Fenay Bridge, Lepton Heights has 40 bedrooms and three single occupancy apartments, across three small, purpose-built units, creating a homely and supportive environment that’s more responsive to individual needs.

Having only opened in January 2025, Lepton Heights is a new service, providing the opportunity for a new manager to continue building a dedicated care team and work towards the homes first CQC, aiming for Good or even Outstanding!

About the role

As a Home Manager with Exemplar Health Care, you won’t just manage your home, you’ll be the heartbeat of everything that happens there.

You’ll be given a great deal of autonomy and will lead by example, driving your team and pushing for continuous improvement daily. You’ll 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, you’re 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
• paid NMC membership
• paid access to the RCNi Learning platform
• 24/7 counselling and support
• Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. 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.