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Operations Manager | Nursing Homes | Worcestershire | Up to £80,000
Most operations roles hand you a patch and a rulebook, then quietly remove any freedom to think for yourself.
You inherit someone else's system, work inside someone else's straight-jacket, and spend your days feeding a head office that has already made the decisions.
If that's what you're after, this isn't it.
This is the number two seat in a well-established, family-owned nursing home group.
The owner has spent twenty years building something he's proud of, and he's ready to hand full responsibility for care provision across the group to one person he can trust to run it.
That person is genuinely in charge of the quality, the standards, and the direction of care.
The autonomy here is real, not a line in a job spec.
The group runs a portfolio of nursing homes mainly in the West Midlands, with a reputation built on genuinely warm, family-feel care rather than corporate box-ticking.
The strategy isn't relentless acquisition; it's keeping the quality of care high and leading a group that already does things well.
For the right person, there's room to grow into more over time.
No promises, but the ceiling is high and the door isn't closed.
The non-negotiables
Operations experience across multiple nursing homes, or strong nursing home management experience and the appetite to step up into a group-level role
A real understanding of how nursing homes run at this scale.
You don't need to be a nurse, but you do need to talk the talk and know what good looks like
The maturity to hit the ground running.
This is an autonomous role and there's no appetite to hand-hold
Warm and friendly by default.
Curious by nature.
Someone who is always turning over how things could be done better, even a little differently, and then actually makes it happen
Living in the region, or comfortably close, and happy to be out among the homes.
This role covers a real geographic patch, so location and a willingness to travel both matter
If you've spent years inside a larger group wishing you had the freedom to lead your own way, this is that freedom.
Apply with your CV, even if it isn't fully up to date, or call Tim Roby directly for a confidential conversation about the role.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
Sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Type: Permanent Location: Worcester, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £70000 - £80000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-08-18 09:45:03
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Registered Manager (RGN / RMN) | Loughborough | Up to £70,000
The best nursing home managers rarely go looking.
You're settled, you're respected, and the home you run doesn't wobble when you take a week off.
So it takes something genuinely better to make you look up from what you've built.
This might be it.
This is one of the larger nursing homes within a small, family-run group that has quietly built a serious reputation for quality, with more than one Outstanding-rated service to its name.
It's a settled, high-occupancy home caring for complex, high-dependency nursing residents, with a strong element of dementia care.
The current manager is moving on after a long and genuinely successful tenure, in a planned, unhurried succession.
Nothing here needs rescuing.
What it needs is the right person to carry very good work forward and keep it there.
Here's the part that matters.
You'll inherit an established team, an experienced deputy and a clinical lead already in place, so you'll be leading rather than plugging gaps.
The admin and finance side is handled at group level, which means your energy goes where it should: on care, on your people, and on standards.
And you'll have real autonomy.
This is a home to run as your own, with support above you when you want it and nobody peering over your shoulder when you don't.
It's a group that promotes from within, invests in its homes and backs its managers to lead.
The salary reflects all of that: up to £70,000 for the right person with the right track record.
The non-negotiables
A current NMC registration as an RGN or RMN
Registered Manager experience within a nursing home
A track record of running larger services (50-plus beds)
NVQ / QCF Level 5 in Leadership and Management, held or close to complete
If that reads like the move you'd actually leave a good job for, send your CV across.
Don't worry if it isn't bang up to date, we can sort that between us.
Or if you'd rather have a quiet, confidential conversation before anything else, call Tim at Recruitment Panda directly.
Please note: you'll need the existing right to work in the UK, as sponsorship isn't available for this role.
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Type: Permanent Location: Loughborough, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-08-14 16:02:14
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Business Development Manager, Leicestershire.
Up to £50,000.
Turn a worried first phone call into someone's next chapter, and put a growing care group on the map while you do it.
When a family finally picks up the phone about care for someone they love, they're rarely just asking about a room.
They're anxious, a bit guilty, and trying to make one of the hardest calls of their lives.
How that first conversation goes shapes everything that comes after.
That's your job.
And it's only half of it.
The other half is making sure families know this group exists in the first place, and that they trust what they find when they look.
It's a rare mix of a role, and it's built for someone with real energy.
Part of it is admissions, guiding families from that first enquiry through the tour, the assessment and the move in, with warmth and no pressure.
The other part is marketing, where you'll own the campaigns, the social channels and the reputation of a family run group that genuinely wants your ideas.
You'll look after the enquiry pipeline and the conversion data on one side, and a Content Creator and an Activities Lead on the other.
Occupancy and brand, both sitting with one person.
You.
If you've spent a few years as a customer relations manager, an admissions lead or a group admissions and marketing manager in care, and you're ready to own the whole thing rather than one slice of it, this is your step up.
You'll build the relationships that fill homes, working with social workers, discharge teams, brokerage and Local Authorities.
At the same time you'll make sure the group's online presence and every family review tell the story these homes deserve.
You'll be out in the community too, in the hospital discharge meetings, at the networking forums, picking up the success stories and turning them into the reason the next family picks up the phone.
And when you walk a family round a home, you'll see it the way they do.
You'll notice what looks warm and what looks tired, what draws the eye and what quietly puts people off.
That instinct for what makes a place feel like somewhere you'd trust with your mum is a big part of what sets this role apart from straight sales.
The non-negotiables
This is a senior, dual role, so we're being genuinely selective.
To be right for it you'll need:
Real care sector experience.
You know how homes work, how families decide, and what regulated care actually means.
A track record of driving occupancy.
Commissioning, admissions, customer relations, whatever the title, you've helped fill beds and you can point to the numbers.
The marketing half too.
Campaigns, social channels, content and brand, not just the sales side.
Both halves matter here.
The confidence and drive to get out from behind the desk, in front of managers, families and professionals, and make things happen without waiting to be asked.
A full UK driving licence and your own transport, because you'll be travelling across a cluster of homes in Leicestershire.
The right to work in the UK.
This role is not open to sponsorship.
A quick bit of honesty, because it saves us both time.
If your background is call centre or general sales with no care or marketing behind it, this one won't play to your strengths.
And if you're a strong marketer who'd rather stay at your screen than be out meeting people, the same is true.
This role rewards someone who can do both and genuinely enjoys the people side.
Why this one's worth a look
The salary is up to £50,000.
Beyond that, it's a supportive, forward thinking group where creativity and initiative are actually valued rather than just mentioned in the induction.
You'll get the chance to shape the growth and reputation of a respected care provider, and to make a real difference to families at the moment it counts most.
Sound like you? Apply with your CV, even a rough or out of date one, and we'll sort the rest.
Or call Tim at Recruitment Panda for a confidential chat.
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Type: Permanent Location: Leicester, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: Up to £50000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-08-14 11:12:34
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Registered Nurse - Clinical Deputy Manager Nursing Home | West Yorkshire (Leeds/Bradford)£45,882.72 · 36 hours · Permanent
The last person to sit in this chair is about to be handed the keys to the home.
She started as a nurse here, earned her stripes, and is now stepping up to Registered Manager.
That tells you two things: this is a company that backs its own, and there's a Deputy's seat open for the right reason.
You'd be her clinical right hand in a small, close-knit nursing home caring for older people, mostly general nursing with some dementia.
It's all on the ground floor, everyone knows every resident by name, and the day actually feels manageable.
Here's the honest bit, because you'd rather hear it now than in week three.
This service has had a wobble and it's on an improvement journey.
That's not a warning, it's the opportunity.
There's a genuine chance to help steady the ship, put your fingerprints on the turnaround, and walk away with something on your CV that says "I made this better." And you won't be doing it alone.
There's a hands-on regional team and senior leadership who are clearly invested in getting this one right.
What you'd actually be doing
Acting as clinical number two to a brand-new manager, sharing the clinical and leadership load
Owning care planning, medication management, and clinical standards on the floor
Coaching and mentoring the nursing and care team, and leading by example
Supporting audits, compliance and the improvement plan, plus a hand in budgeting and planning
Splitting your week between supernumerary management time and hands-on nursing shifts, with some weekend cover and on-call on the rota
What's in it for you
Private healthcare scheme and annual pay reviews that actually recognise your effort
Long-service and recognition awards
A promote-from-within culture, and the person you'd be supporting is living proof of it
A visible, winnable challenge with real backing behind you
The non-negotiables
A live NMC pin (RGN)
Previous Deputy Manager or Clinical Lead experience.
This isn't a first step into management
Level 4 or Level 5 in Adult Social Care, held or a genuine willingness to work towards it
The appetite to walk into a service that needs steadying and treat it as a project worth owning
The right to work in the UK.
Sponsorship isn't available for this role
If you've led in a good-rated home and fancy proving you can get another one there, or you're a seasoned manager happy to step back into a strong number-two role, this one's worth a conversation.
Interested? Hit apply, or call Tim at Recruitment Panda for a confidential, warts-and-all chat before you commit to anything.
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Type: Permanent Location: Leeds, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: Up to £45882.72 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-08-10 13:19:22
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Registered Manager - Care at Home - Highlands
You're good at this.
You know it.
The rota shifts at 6am and you've already got it covered.
A carer calls in sick on a Friday, a care plan needs updating before the morning run, a commissioner is chasing a report.
You handle it, because you always do.
The question is whether the service you're doing it for deserves that.
This one might.
A well-established care at home service based around 14 miles north of Inverness is looking for a Registered Manager to take the reins and grow something worth growing.
It's a live, operational service delivering around 700 hours of care per week across a wide rural geography, with a clear, realistic plan to grow sustainably beyond 1,000.
A team of 26 care practitioners is in place, a Care Coordinator and Team Leads are alongside you, and the infrastructure to build properly is there.
What the service needs is someone who brings more than a job title.
Someone who understands that lone workers operating across remote Highland communities need more than a rota, they need a manager who sees them, supports them and sets the standard consistently.
This is what a strong week in this role looks like.
Care plans that reflect people's lives as they are today, not six months ago.
Compliance that stands up to scrutiny and means something operationally.
Supervision that staff actually benefit from rather than just tick off.
Commissioner relationships built on reliability and honest communication.
A service that grows because the quality earns it.
The Highland setting is unique.
The geography demands logistics thinking and independence of judgement.
If you've managed care at home in a rural area before, you'll recognise it immediately.
If you haven't, the relocation support on offer, including open discussion around housing and temporary accommodation during your transition, makes the move more achievable than you might think.
Sponsorship may also be available for the right candidate with strong care at home experience.
Who you'll be working with and what that looks like in practice.
The Operations Manager you'd report into has spent her career at the sharp end of care at home.
Former Operations Director for one of the Highlands' largest providers, and someone who has grown the Dingwall branch herself since taking it on.
She's not a figurehead, she's operationally fluent, well-connected with commissioners, and genuinely invested in the right person succeeding.
That means real support.
Not a check-in once a month and left to it.
If there's a development area you want to build, clinical specialism, quality improvement, workforce strategy, there's appetite to back that properly, with protected time and resource.
Decisions that sit within operational delivery are yours to make.
Budget sign-off sits higher in the business, which is worth knowing upfront.
But day-to-day, you run the service.
The culture here is straightforward.
Standards matter.
The team are treated well, genuinely, not just on paper.
And the expectation is that you build something stable enough that the people above you aren't worried when they're not in the office.
That's the benchmark.
By the end of year one, success looks like this: care hours growing steadily toward 1,000, a team that's properly supervised and retained, an inspection outcome that reflects the quality of the work, and a commissioner relationship built on consistency.
Growth beyond the single branch is a realistic longer-term conversation for the right person, but that starts with making this one the service it should be.
What will help you succeed:
Several years working within care at home services — not just social care more broadly
Registered Manager experience or a clear, credible route to registration
Confidence managing compliance, inspections and stakeholder relationships
A full UK driving licence
Qualifications being sought:
SCQF Level 9 in a health, social work or related field
Leadership and Management at SCQF Level 10 (or a committed plan to complete it)
SVQ Level 4 in Health and Social Care — or readiness to move quickly toward it
A competitive salary is on offer, aligned to experience.
If your background is rooted in care at home and the Highlands feels like somewhere you could build a career, not just fill a vacancy, send your CV across.
It doesn't need to be updated.
A conversation costs nothing.
Or call Tim directly.
He's the Principal Consultant working closely with this employer.
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Type: Permanent Location: Inverness, Scotland
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-07-28 15:12:11
