Registered Manager

Leaders in Care Recruitment; Lewes; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

33 days annual leave plus birthday off

Private healthcare

Sick pay

Paid charity days

Blue Light Card discounts

Training and professional development

Job summary

Leaders in Care Recruitment is seeking a Registered Manager to lead a complex care service across Sussex with expansion into Surrey. Based at the Lewes office, you will manage an experienced team delivering paediatric and adult community care, focusing on compliance, governance and growth.

You'll oversee CQC-regulated activities, build relationships with commissioners and NHS bodies, and drive sustainable service development while maintaining high-quality care and staff engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering operational delivery, quality and compliance.
• Strong understanding of CQC requirements, safeguarding and risk management.
• Commercial awareness including referrals, tenders or growth.

Responsibilities

• Take operational responsibility for the CQC-registered service, ensuring safe, effective and high-quality care.
• Lead and support Clinical Leads, Nurse Case Managers and Care Coordinators.
• Oversee day-to-day delivery of paediatric and adult community complex care.
• Maintain standards across CQC compliance, safeguarding, governance and risk management.
• Work with clinical colleagues to mobilise new care packages safely and maintain effective oversight of existing services.
• Build relationships with NHS ICBs, commissioners, local authorities, case managers and healthcare professionals.
• Work alongside Business Development colleagues on referrals, tenders and new opportunities.
• Partner with Recruitment colleagues to ensure staffing supports safe, sustainable service growth.

Skills

Management experience

CQC compliance

Commercial awareness

Stakeholder relationships

Job description

Registered Manager – Complex Care

Lewes, East Sussex | £50,000–£55,000 per annum + bonus

Office-based | Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm

Take ownership of an established complex care service across Sussex, with the support, resources and autonomy to drive its next phase of growth.

We're recruiting a Registered Manager to oversee community-based complex care across Sussex and support expansion into Surrey. Based at the Lewes office, you'll lead an experienced team delivering care to children and adults in their own homes, with a particular focus on developing paediatric complex care provision.

If you enjoy leading teams, delivering high-quality care and building relationships that help a service develop, this role offers the opportunity to make a clear impact.

A nursing qualification or NMC registration is not required. You'll have an established clinical team providing specialist clinical oversight, allowing you to focus on operational leadership, compliance and sustainable growth.

Salary & Benefits

• £50,000–£55,000 annual salary, plus a bonus scheme.
• Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm.
• 33 days annual leave plus your birthday off.
• Private healthcare and company sick pay.
• Paid charity days.
• Blue Light Card discounts.
• Ongoing training and professional development.

The Service

You’ll join an established complex healthcare provider delivering thousands of hours of community care each month.

You won’t be building the service from scratch. Clinical Leads, Care Coordinators, Recruitment, Business Development and senior clinical leadership are already in place to support delivery and development.

You’ll play a key role in growing the service across Sussex and Surrey, strengthening commissioner relationships, developing new care packages and expanding the paediatric complex care offering.

Your Role as Registered Manager

• Take operational responsibility for the CQC-registered service, ensuring safe, effective and high-quality care.
• Lead and support Clinical Leads, Nurse Case Managers and Care Coordinators.
• Oversee day-to-day delivery of paediatric and adult community complex care.
• Maintain standards across CQC compliance, safeguarding, governance and risk management.
• Work with clinical colleagues to mobilise new care packages safely and maintain effective oversight of existing services.
• Build relationships with NHS ICBs, commissioners, local authorities, case managers and healthcare professionals.
• Work alongside Business Development colleagues on referrals, tenders and new opportunities.
• Partner with Recruitment colleagues to ensure staffing supports safe, sustainable service growth.

About You

You’ll have management experience within complex care, homecare, domiciliary care or another relevant CQC-regulated service, with:

• Responsibility for operational delivery, quality and compliance.
• A strong understanding of CQC requirements, safeguarding and risk management.
• Experience leading teams and working collaboratively with clinical professionals.
• Commercial awareness, including contributing to referrals, service development, tenders or business growth.
• Confidence building relationships with external stakeholders.

Community complex care or paediatric care experience would be particularly valuable, but is not essential. Clinical experience or a nursing qualification would also be advantageous.

This opportunity could suit an experienced Registered Manager, Branch Manager, Service Manager, Care Manager or Operations Manager looking to take ownership of an established service with scope to develop it further.

REF: LICEA