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15 caring services.
500+ team members.
£26m+ revenue.
One family.
And one job that's never existed here before.
Managing Director - Leicestershire, Warwickshire and expanding
Midlands Care Group
For 20 years, Midlands Care has been built, led and loved by the Raja family.
Three brothers, 8 acquisitions in two years, a 9.5 rating on carehome.co.uk from nearly 500 reviews, a dynamic and progressive care operation earning Good CQC ratings across the group with a clear pathway to Outstanding.
Now the Managing Director is stepping up to become Chief Executive, and we're looking for the professional operator who will run the business day-to-day.
What you'll get
Salary up to £135,000 plus a substantial performance-linked bonus structure, paid half-yearly
Car allowance, 25 days' leave, and the autonomy of a defined authority framework
An exceptional senior team already in place: Director of Operations, Clinical & Governance Director, HR Manager and a Quality Assurance Team ++
A growing business with freehold property, sound banking, and the family's full backing for multi-directional strategic growth
Operating from brand-new, spacious Leicester head office premises, ready for growth
A culture of innovation and ambition
It could be you if
You've led a multi-site care operation of 10+ services as MD, COO, Regional Director or equivalent
You've driven occupancy, EBITDA and CQC ratings and can prove it with numbers
You can chair a strong senior team, manage upward to hands-on principals, and operate with clarity
You'll be as comfortable walking a home floor at 7am as presenting to the board
Do not apply if
You're looking for a title rather than the job
You've no exposure to CQC regulations or care businesses.
There's a breadth and depth of knowledge inherent that are essential
You see care quality as a cost to be managed rather than the product the business exists to deliver
To apply
Apply with CV for immediate attention.
This is a retained search managed exclusively by Recruitment Panda ® on behalf of Midlands Care Group.
All applications are treated in strict confidence.
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Type: Permanent Location: Birmingham, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £120000 - £135000 per annum + Car, tiered bonus to 60%
Posted: 2026-06-12 16:42:59
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15 caring services.
500+ team members.
£26m+ revenue.
One family.
And one job that's never existed here before.
Managing Director - Leicestershire, Warwickshire and expanding
Midlands Care Group
For 20 years, Midlands Care has been built, led and loved by the Raja family.
Three brothers, 8 acquisitions in two years, a 9.5 rating on carehome.co.uk from nearly 500 reviews, a dynamic and progressive care operation earning Good CQC ratings across the group with a clear pathway to Outstanding.
Now the Managing Director is stepping up to become Chief Executive, and we're looking for the professional operator who will run the business day-to-day.
What you'll get
Salary up to £135,000 plus a substantial performance-linked bonus structure, paid half-yearly
Car allowance, 25 days' leave, and the autonomy of a defined authority framework
An exceptional senior team already in place: Director of Operations, Clinical & Governance Director, HR Manager and a Quality Assurance Team ++
A growing business with freehold property, sound banking, and the family's full backing for multi-directional strategic growth
Operating from brand-new, spacious Leicester head office premises, ready for growth
A culture of innovation and ambition
It could be you if
You've led a multi-site care operation of 10+ services as MD, COO, Regional Director or equivalent
You've driven occupancy, EBITDA and CQC ratings and can prove it with numbers
You can chair a strong senior team, manage upward to hands-on principals, and operate with clarity
You'll be as comfortable walking a home floor at 7am as presenting to the board
Do not apply if
You're looking for a title rather than the job
You've no exposure to CQC regulations or care businesses.
There's a breadth and depth of knowledge inherent that are essential
You see care quality as a cost to be managed rather than the product the business exists to deliver
To apply
Apply with CV for immediate attention.
This is a retained search managed exclusively by Recruitment Panda ® on behalf of Midlands Care Group.
All applications are treated in strict confidence.
Downloads
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Further information available to shortlisted applicants
Remuneration package
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Type: Permanent Location: Leicester, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £120000 - £135000 per annum + Car, tiered bonus to 60%
Posted: 2026-06-12 16:42:56
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Registered Manager (Nursing) | Merseyside / Liverpool | c.£70,000 + £10k Bonus
The hard part's done.
Now someone gets to build on it.
Plenty of management roles ask you to dig a home out of a hole.
This one's different.
A family-owned care group is looking for a Registered Manager to take the helm of one of its Liverpool nursing homes, a home that's been quietly moving in the right direction and now needs a leader to keep that momentum going and push for more.
If you've spent your career inheriting other people's problems, this is the change of pace worth a phone call.
You'd be steering an established team that knows what good looks like, with the freedom to lead and the backing of a group that puts its money where its values are: training, technology, and homes people are proud to work in.
It's a clinical leadership role with commercial teeth.
You set the standard, you own the outcomes, and you're trusted to get on with it.
The non-negotiables:
Valid NMC pin (RGN or RMN)
Management or strong deputy experience in a nursing home
A track record of holding standards and lifting a team with you
Someone who leads from the floor, not the office chair
What's in it for you:
Circa £70,000 package
A home with positive momentum to build on, not rebuild from scratch
Genuine autonomy with proper head-office support behind you
A long-term, family-owned employer that reinvests in its people
If that sounds like your next move, send your CV (don't worry if it's not up to date) or call for a confidential, no-strings conversation.
Complete discretion as standard.
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Type: Permanent Location: Liverpool, England
Start: ASAp
Salary / Rate: Up to £70000 per annum + + £10k performance bonus
Posted: 2026-06-09 21:33:17
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Registered Manager (Nursing) | North Yorkshire | £75,000+
There's £75,000 on the table.
The harder question is who's good enough to take it.
Most nursing home manager roles don't open at this level.
This one does, and it isn't a typo.
A well-established, family-owned care group is searching for a Registered Manager with the clinical credibility and leadership backbone to take the reins of one of its North Yorkshire nursing homes.
Here's the honest version.
This home has real potential and a committed team already in place.
What it's missing is the right person at the top to pull it all together and lead the next chapter.
If you're the kind of manager who looks at that and feels the itch rather than the dread, keep reading.
You'd have genuine autonomy to run your home your way, with the financial firepower and head-office backing of a group that reinvests in its people and its homes rather than squeezing them.
The number reflects the level of leader they're after.
It is not a holding pattern.
The non-negotiables:
Valid NMC pin (RGN or RMN)
Proven management or deputy experience in a nursing home setting
The clinical judgement and commercial sense to run a home as your own
A leadership style people actually want to follow
What's in it for you:
£75,000+ package for the right individual
The autonomy to lead, backed by a group that means it
A real opportunity to make your mark, not babysit someone else's system
Long-term security with an owner that invests rather than flips
If this has your attention, send your CV (even a rusty, out-of-date one is fine, we can sort the polish later) or call for a completely confidential, no-obligation conversation.
Discretion guaranteed.
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Type: Permanent Location: Leeds, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £75000 - £80000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-06-09 21:17:42
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Operations Manager
Complex Care (LD, Mental Health and Autism)
Supported Living and Residential
Leicester £55,000-£65,000, negotiable for the right person · Clear route to Associate Director
Some providers want a safe pair of hands to keep the lights on.
This one wants someone to build.
Three new developments in the pipeline over the next 18 months, a service already growing, and two directors who are ready to step back and let an Operations Manager genuinely own operations and quality.
A growing, privately owned provider in complex care (learning disabilities, mental health and autism), across supported living and residential, is looking for an Operations Manager to take real ownership of operations and quality.
You'd oversee a registered service plus supported living provision, line-manage experienced Registered Managers and senior teams who've been in post three years and genuinely know their stuff, and sit as the link between the directors and the front line.
Around 80 staff.
Roughly 3,000 care hours a week today, with three new developments in the pipeline over the next 18 months.
The directors are hands-on, but they want to step back from the day-to-day.
That's the entire point of the role: to take it off their plate and own it.
Why it's worth a conversation:
A genuine route to Associate Director.
The plan is for you to grow into it and eventually replace yourself.
Autonomy from day one.
You'll be trusted to run it, not babysat.
A growth story you get to shape rather than inherit.
A team they describe as transparent, driven and pulling the same direction.
The 100% internal job satisfaction isn't a number invented for a poster.
Worth being straight with you: this isn't a finished, perfect service.
The team is strong and hungry to learn, but they want someone who'll challenge and lift them, not coast.
If you're the type who enjoys building, that's a feature, not a flaw.
The non-negotiables:
Level 5 in Leadership & Management (or equivalent), minimum.
Operations or multi-site experience in supported living and complex care, ideally around the 5,000-hours-a-week mark.
A track record that sits firmly in the Good to Outstanding bracket.
Requires Improvement or Inadequate histories won't land here.
Someone who can be trusted completely, and who talks about people (their team, the people they support, and yes, former employers) with respect.
Practical bits: site-based in Leicester, Monday to Friday with flexibility for the occasional night spot check.
They're ready to move fast for the right person.
If this sounds like your next move, apply with your CV (it doesn't need to be polished or up to date) or call me directly for a confidential, no-pressure conversation about whether it fits.
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Type: Permanent Location: Leicester, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-06-09 20:34:56
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Registered Home Manager - Nursing Home
Shropshire (commutable from Telford & the West Midlands)
£65,000-£75,000 + performance incentives
There's a version of this job where the best part of your week is spent waiting on head office to sign off a decision you could have made before lunch.
This isn't that one.
This is an independently owned nursing home where the people you answer to actually know the building, the residents and the team by name.
Hands-on owners, genuinely invested.
No region to report into, no nine-layer approval chain, no playbook written by someone who's never met your residents.
What that means for you: you run the home.
Properly.
Clinical standards, governance, culture, all of it.
You'll have backing when you want it and the room to lead when you don't.
For the right clinician, that is the whole point.
The work is real.
Complex nursing care, including palliative and end-of-life support done the way it should be done.
You'll step into modern digital systems (electronic care planning, eMAR, online training) and a service that wants to be excellent, not merely compliant.
If you've quietly noticed that corporate life keeps turning leadership into paperwork, this is your way out.
The non-negotiables
Registered Home Manager experience within a nursing home setting
A clinical registration behind you (RGN or RMN)
A track record in a service rated Good or better, and the standards to keep it there
The confidence to lead autonomously.
This home wants an owner, not a caretaker.
The package
£65,000-£75,000 depending on experience
Performance-related incentives
Direct, genuine support from the owners
The freedom to shape a service and build something worth putting your name to
This role is UK-based and does not offer visa sponsorship, so you'll need existing right to work here.
If it sounds like you, apply with your CV.
Don't worry if it isn't bang up to date.
Or if you'd rather talk it through before anything formal, call me for a confidential conversation.
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Type: Permanent Location: Telford, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £65000 - £750000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-06-08 13:11:32
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Registered Manager - Care at Home | Relocate to the Highlands | Aberdeen
You've built your career in care at home and you're good at it.
But if you're being honest, the question isn't whether you can do the job.
It's whether where you're doing it still feels right.
If Aberdeen has started to feel like the ceiling rather than the opportunity, this might be worth reading.
A well-established care at home service in the Scottish Highlands is looking for a Registered Manager to lead, stabilise and grow a rural operation delivering around 700 hours of care per week, with a clear plan to reach 1,000.
The service is based around 14 miles north of Inverness.
That's roughly two hours from Aberdeen.
Not commutable daily, but for the right person, very much relocatable, and the employer is serious about making that transition work.
Open conversations around housing support and temporary accommodation are part of the package, not an afterthought.
The Highlands aren't for everyone.
But for care at home managers who want space to actually lead, without the noise, the volume pressures and the conveyor belt of a central belt operation, it tends to feel exactly right.
This is what the role actually involves.
A team of 26 care practitioners, a Care Coordinator and Team Leads already in place.
Lone worker oversight across a wide rural geography.
Care plans that need to stay live and reflect real lives.
Commissioner relationships with NHS Highland that are already established and worth protecting.
And a rota that, like every care at home rota, does not stay still.
The service is operational and functioning.
What it needs is the right registered leader to take ownership of it, grow it sustainably and build the kind of stability that earns further investment.
Who you'd be working with.
The Operations Manager above you has spent her career at the sharp end of care at home, former Operations Director for one of the Highlands' largest providers, and well-connected across the sector in Scotland.
She knows what good looks like and she knows what support actually means in practice.
Day-to-day operational decisions are yours.
Budget sign-off sits higher in the business, which is worth knowing upfront.
But the expectation is clear, you run the service, and you're trusted to do it.
Standards matter here.
The team are looked after genuinely.
And the benchmark for success is simple: build something stable enough that nobody above you is worried when they step away.
By the end of year one, success looks like steady growth toward 1,000 hours, a retained and well-supervised team, a strong inspection outcome, and a commissioner relationship built on reliability.
For the right person, longer-term growth beyond this branch is a realistic conversation, but it starts here.
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 with compliance, inspection standards 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.
Relocation support is available.
Sponsorship may be considered for the right background.
If you're based in or around Aberdeen and the Highlands has been something you've thought about, even loosely, this is probably worth a conversation before you talk yourself out of it.
Send your CV to Recruitment Panda.
It doesn't need to be updated.
Or get in touch directly and we'll take it from there.
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Type: Permanent Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £38000 - £43000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-06-08 12:45:22
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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: £38000 - £43000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-06-05 15:39:43
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REGISTERED MANAGER — DOMICILIARY CARE | GREATER MANCHESTER (Tameside / Stockport area)
You've managed the chaos.
Now manage something worth it.
Running a domiciliary care service isn't glamorous.
It's early calls, staffing gaps, commissioner meetings, and a CQC framework that doesn't forgive complacency.
Most managers who've done it properly know exactly what they're worth and exactly what they're not willing to put up with anymore.
This is for one of those managers.
An established domiciliary care service in the Greater Manchester area is looking for a Registered Manager.
The service is running.
The team is in place.
What it needs is experienced, grounded leadership from someone who's already earned their stripes and who wants a role with real autonomy, real backing, and a salary that reflects both.
What the role actually looks like
You'll oversee daily homecare operations across a defined patch, manage a commissioned care contract and its performance obligations, and lead a team that needs direction, not micromanagement.
CQC compliance, budget ownership, commissioner relationships, and service quality are all yours.
That's the job, and it's a proper one.
The non-negotiables
Registered Manager experience in domiciliary care
Proven track record with commissioned / local authority homecare contracts
Confidence managing care packages at volume across a wide geographic area
NVQ/SVQ Level 5 in Leadership & Management (or working towards)
Sound knowledge of CQC standards in a domiciliary setting
Full driving licence and your own vehicle
What's on offer
Salary to £65,000 depending on experience
Performance bonus
25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off
Buy/sell holiday scheme
Pension and Employee Assistance Programme
If you've done this before and you're looking for an employer who'll get out of your way and let you lead, while actually supporting you when it matters, this is worth a conversation.
Apply in confidence with a CV or give us a call.
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Type: Permanent Location: Tameside, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: Up to £65000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-05-18 16:17:41
