Home Manager

Lostock Lodge
  • Title Home Manager
  • Setting Care Home / Nursing Home
  • Role Registered Manager / Service Manager
  • Salary £45,000 per annum Competitive Salary
  • Hours Full Time
  • Location Preston, Lancashire

Job Summary

Date posted: 19 March 2025
  • Job Reference: AUR1101

Are you an experienced Care Home Manager looking for a new challenge?

Are you passionate about providing excellent care to the elderly?

We are seeking to recruit a dedicated Care Home Manager with proven experience, responsible for ensuring a high level of care and governance is provided to our residents.

Responsibilities include:

The successful candidate will need to have extensive experience in running a residential care home.

The role includes but is not limited to:

  • Managing and supporting a competent and highly driven team
  • Work alongside the Operations Team, Deputy Manager and senior care staff to deliver high quality care standards within the home
  • Able to anticipate problems/needs and resolve these in a proactive, independent manner whilst ensuring effective communication
  • To promote Residents Rights at all times by ensuring all staff have completed their mandatory training.
  • Build positive customer relationships and develop the homes relations with relatives, applying a proactive approach to understanding customer needs
  • Effectively manage risk to ensure compliance with standards and customer safety at all times
  • Liaise closely with all Regulatory bodies in order to build effective relationships
  • Establish and maintain effective methods of communication with all stakeholders
  • Understand and support policies and procedures of Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
  • Maintain excellent relationships within the region and also with external agencies to build and maintain a positive reputation in the local community
  • Ensure that effective measures are taken to adequately protect the safety and welfare of service users, visitors and staff
  • Promote, share and sustain best practice methods at all times
  • Drive continuous improvement and support the agreed innovations and technological advances where appropriate
  • To maintain and develop staff training, appraisals and supervision
  • To monitor and regulate expenditure to ensure compliance with company budgetary guidelines
  • Any other duties to meet service delivery for our residents

Requirements:

  • At least 2 years of experience as a Residential Care Home manager
  • Strong background in elderly and dementia care
  • Able to lead, develop and inspire teams
  • Working to deadlines and meeting KPI expectations
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Sound knowledge of CQC regulations
  • The ability to manage a busy workload and prioritise tasks
  • Highly motivated and good communication skills

There are many great reasons to join our team and what we can offer:

  • Great opportunities for further training and development
  • Competitive salary on offer £45,000 per annum
  • Full time, 40 hours per week
  • Monday – Friday – Occasional requirement to work on call, based on the demands of the role
  • 25 Days Annual Leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time contracts)
  • Life insurance
  • Free DBS (T & C’s apply)
  • Free parking
  • Company pension
  • Wagestream – Same-day pay
  • Our employee assist programme – healthcare and mental health support
  • Free in house training via our elearning platform, your Hippo, in addition to our fully funded apprenticeship courses
  • Yearly salary review
  • Being part of an organisation where empowering and valuing our people is fundamental to everything we do

Why join us?

Aurem Care have been awarded for the prestigious ‘Top 20 Care Home Group’ accolade by carehome.co.uk, celebrating our commitment to excellence in care across the UK.

Our homes are all about people caring about people, we believe our care homes should be happy homes for loved ones.

Our team play an important role in our homes, to ensure that our values are lived and embraced every day.