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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: 2026-09-18 14:33:18
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Care at Home Manager | Highlands | £40,000 to £45,000
Some managers want a smooth service that runs itself.
This one is not that.
And if you are being honest with yourself, that is probably not what you are looking for either.
The right person for this role is someone who looks at a service with room to improve and sees an opportunity, not a warning sign.
Someone who wants to put their stamp on something, build it properly and have the inspection outcome, the team stability and the commissioner relationships to show for it.
If that sounds like you, keep reading.
The Role
An established care at home service based around 14 miles north of Inverness is looking for a Registered Manager to lead, develop and grow what is already a functioning operation.
The service currently delivers around 700 hours of care per week across a wide rural geography.
A team of care practitioners, Team Leads and a Care Coordinator are already in place.
The infrastructure is there.
What the service needs now is the right registered leader to take ownership of it, drive quality forward and grow it sustainably toward 1,000 hours.
There has been a recent Care Inspectorate inspection.
The outcomes were mixed and an action plan is in place.
Progress is already being made.
This is not a service in crisis.
It is a service in transition and it needs someone who understands the difference and wants to be part of what comes next.
What a Strong Week Looks Like
Care plans that are live, accurate and genuinely person-centred
Risk assessments completed, reviewed and meaningful rather than filed and forgotten
Supervision that the team actually benefits from
A rota that holds
Commissioner conversations built on trust and consistency
Inspection readiness that is not a last minute panic, because the work is being done every day
The Highland geography is real.
Lone workers covering rural communities across a wide area need a manager who is visible, present and consistent, not one who manages from a distance and hopes for the best.
Who You Will Be Working With
The Operations Manager above this role has spent her career at the sharp end of care at home.
She is a former Operations Director for one of the Highlands' largest providers and is well connected across the commissioning landscape in Scotland.
She is not a figurehead.
She knows what this service needs and she is genuinely invested in the right person succeeding.
The support behind this role is real.
If there is a specialism you want to develop or an area you want to lead on, there is appetite to back that properly with protected time and resource.
Day to day operational decisions are yours.
Budget sign off sits higher in the business, which is worth knowing upfront.
But the expectation is straightforward.
Build something stable enough that the people above you are not worried when they step away.
By the end of year one, success looks like this:
Measurable progress on the improvement plan
A team that is properly supervised, retained and performing
Care hours growing steadily toward 1,000
A commissioner relationship rebuilt on reliability and consistency
For the right person, growth beyond this service is a longer term conversation.
But it starts with making this one what it should be.
What We Are Looking For
Experience
Several years working within care at home services, not just social care more broadly
Registered Manager experience or a clear and credible route to registration
Confidence with compliance, inspection standards and Care Inspectorate requirements
A full UK driving licence
Qualifications
SCQF Level 9 in health, social work or a 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 work toward it quickly
Salary: £40,000 to £45,000 depending on experience.
Relocation support is available including open discussion around housing and temporary accommodation.
Not Quite There Yet But Getting Close?
If you are a Deputy Manager or experienced Care Coordinator with a strong care at home background and you know you are ready for the next step, this employer is open to that conversation.
The right candidate will be supported toward registration.
What matters is the experience, the values and the drive to get there.
Do not let a job title stop you from getting in touch.
How to Apply
Send your CV to Recruitment Panda.
It does not need to be updated.
A conversation costs nothing.
Or get in touch directly.
Tim is the Principal Consultant working closely with this employer and knows the brief inside out.
Right to work in the UK is required for this position.
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Type: Permanent Location: Inverness, Scotland
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £40000 - £45000 per annum + additional benefits
Posted: 2026-09-16 12:35:45
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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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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
