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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
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Registered Manager — Learning Disabilities & Autism Leicester · £55,000-£60,000 + benefits
The best support doesn't happen in a care plan.
It happens in the small, daily moments where someone is genuinely seen.
If that's the kind of service you want to lead, this one's worth a look.
It's a specialist provider supporting adults with learning disabilities and autism, looking for a Registered Manager who leads with more than a checklist.
You'll take the registration and day-to-day running of a residential service, but the real job is bigger than that: building a team culture where people are supported to live the life they choose, with dignity and independence at the centre of it.
If your experience spans both residential and supported living within this field, even better.
It's an organisation that works across both, so a manager who understands how each model ticks, and how good support looks in either, will feel right at home and have room to grow.
You'll have the autonomy to run the service properly, backed by an organisation that's growing and takes its recruitment seriously enough to invest in getting this hire right.
It's a place to put your stamp on something and stay, not a stopgap.
The non-negotiables
Experience as a Registered Manager, or a senior deputy ready to step up, in adult social care
A genuine background supporting adults with learning disabilities, autism, or behaviours that challenge, across residential and/or supported living
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care, or well on the way
Sound on safeguarding, CQC regulations and the Mental Capacity Act
The kind of leadership that builds a steady, motivated team rather than a revolving door
What's on the table
£55,000-£60,000 depending on experience, plus performance bonus
Real autonomy to lead the service your way
Genuine career growth as the organisation expands
Blue Light Card, pension, EAP and free parking
Monday to Friday core hours, with the flexibility the role needs
Send your CV, even if it's not bang up to date, or call for a confidential, no-pressure conversation.
Everything is handled in complete confidence.
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Type: Permanent Location: Leicester, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £55000 - £60000 per annum + additional benefits
Posted: 2026-07-13 22:32:47
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Registered Manager (Nurse or Non-Nurse) — Residential & Dementia Care Lichfield / Staffordshire · £60,000-£70,000 + bonus
Most homes want a manager to keep things ticking over.
This one wants a builder.
It's already settled and well-run, with a loyal team and a strong local name, but it's not standing still, and neither should you.
It's a mid-sized, purpose-built home delivering residential and dementia care, set in its own grounds and within easy reach of the M42, M6 Toll and the wider motorway network.
The kind of place where families know the staff by name and the staff actually stay.
There are real plans to develop nursing provision here, so alongside protecting what's already good, you'll help lead the home into its next phase.
A settled base and a proper challenge, in one.
You'll run the home with real independence, owning quality, compliance, staffing and culture, backed by a quality team and senior leadership who trust experienced managers to actually manage.
We're open to nurse and non-nurse managers alike.
Given where the home is heading, having run a nursing home before, or holding an active NMC pin, will put you in a particularly strong position.
The non-negotiables
A solid track record as a Registered, Deputy or Acting Manager (3+ years leading a home or service)
Level 5 Diploma in Health & Social Care, or well on the way
A proper grip on CQC standards, and the evidence you've used them to lift a service rather than just survive an inspection
Confident with local authorities, families and multidisciplinary teams
The kind of leadership that makes good people want to stick around
What's on the table
£60,000-£70,000 + bonus, comfortably ahead of the local market
The chance to shape a home's move into nursing, not just hold the status quo
Autonomy that's real, not autonomy on a slide
Leadership and development behind you
A home you'll be proud to put your name to
You'll need full, unrestricted right to work in the UK; sponsorship isn't available for this role.
Send your CV, even if it's not bang up to date, or call for a confidential, no-pressure conversation.
Everything is handled in complete confidence.
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Type: Permanent Location: Lichfield, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-07-13 22:16:03
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REGISTERED MANAGER Leicester | Residential Elderly Care | Up to £65,000
Most manager jobs hand you someone else's home and someone else's problems.
This one hands you a home that already works, and asks you to make it yours.
A well-run Leicester care home is looking for its next Registered Manager.
The current manager is moving on after a long and settled tenure, leaving behind a full home, a steady team and a good local name.
This is a home where care is treated as a craft, not a line on a budget, and where the operator wants a commercially minded leader they can trust to keep it strong and take it further.
So this is not a rescue job.
It's a handover.
You inherit occupancy that's already there, people who already know their residents by name, and an operator who backs good managers rather than second-guessing them.
Your job is to protect what's good, put your own stamp on it, and build from a position of strength.
The non-negotiables:
You're a current or recent Registered Manager in residential elderly care, comfortable with the realities of publicly funded services
You can show what good looks like: occupancy you've held or grown, ratings you've maintained or lifted, teams that stayed
You lead from the floor, know your residents by name, and run a home that is both warm and genuinely well run
What's on the table:
Up to £65,000 for a manager with a real, evidenced track record
The autonomy to run the home as though it were your own
A settled, high-occupancy service to lead from day one, not turn around
For a private, no-obligation chat about the home, the operator and the full package, call or message Tim, or send your CV, even if it isn't fully up to date.
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Type: Permanent Location: Leicester, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £55000 - £65000 per annum + + £7k bonus and additional benefits
Posted: 2026-07-13 21:51:50
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Operations Manager
Complex Care (LD, Mental Health and Autism)
Supported Living and Residential
Leicester £75,000-£80,000, 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: £75000 - £80000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-07-13 20:10:25
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REGISTERED MANAGER | MENTAL HEALTH RESIDENTIAL | BRISTOL | £40,000-£45,000
Mental health residential care at its best is transformative.
At its worst, it's underfunded, and under-supported.
This is the former.
This is a 21-bed residential service for adults with mental health conditions and it has just achieved a clean Good rating across all five CQC key questions.
That matters, because the journey to get there is worth knowing about.
Earlier assessments identified areas for improvement in safe care and governance.
The provider acted.
Medicines management was overhauled, governance strengthened, permanent staffing increased, and the team stabilised.
When CQC returned in May 2025, the improvements were clear.
One resident told inspectors: "The staff are a blessing.
They've changed my life."
That's not a service in crisis.
That's a service that knows how to put things right and has done.
Behind everything the service does sits a clinical infrastructure most providers can only dream of: an in-house psychologist, assistant psychologists and a PBS specialist trainer.
You won't be making decisions in isolation.
HR and finance are handled centrally too, which means your focus stays where it belongs on your team and the people in your care.
The home has real character.
Gardens, a minibus for getting residents out into the community, a residents' kitchenette, and a pet-friendly environment that reflects the kind of homely, human ethos this organisation is built on.
Close to local shops and public transport.
What's on offer:
£40,000-£45,000 depending on experience
6 weeks' paid holiday plus bank holidays
Paid two-week induction
Ongoing CPD and specialist training
Long service and recognition awards
Pension, sick pay and shopping discounts
What you'll need:
At least three years' experience as a Registered Manager
A solid background working with adults with mental health conditions and/or complex needs
Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care (or actively working toward it)
Confident, values-led leadership with strong CQC knowledge
A genuine commitment to least-restrictive, recovery-focused practice
Please note: This role is unable to offer visa sponsorship.
You'll need the right to work in the UK independently.
Interested?
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Type: Permanent Location: Bristol, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £40000 - £45000 per annum + comprehensive benefits package
Posted: 2026-07-06 11:23:28
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Registered Care Home Manager
Lead with Purpose.
Inspire Excellence.
Support Meaningful Lives.
With the UK continuing to debate social-care workforce pressures and the rising need for high-quality mental-health provision, this role offers the opportunity to step into leadership at a time when strong, compassionate management has never been more valued.
If the national conversation has highlighted anything, it's that effective care home leadership directly improves outcomes for the people who rely on it.
This position is supported by a robust internal infrastructure specialists in HR, Finance and clinical practice who help lighten the administrative load and provide expert guidance.
Instead of being buried in paperwork, you gain the freedom to lead strategically, coach your team and prioritise high-quality, person-centred care for adults with long-term mental-health diagnoses.
It's an opportunity to shape a residential service where staff feel empowered, people receive consistent and therapeutic support, and your leadership is strengthened by knowledgeable colleagues who share your commitment to excellence.
What helps you thrive in this role:
Experience as a Registered Manager
Strong understanding of adult mental-health residential care
Effective leadership, coaching and staff-development skills
Clear communication and a flexible, proactive approach
Confident interpretation of CQC requirements and current legislation
Commitment to continued professional development
If you thrive on raising standards, influencing culture and making a measurable difference, this position offers a meaningful next step.
It's a role where your leadership is supported, your expertise is valued and your impact is visible every single day.
Benefits:
Salary £40,000-£45,000 DOE
Paid 2-week induction
Comprehensive CPD, including specialist training
6 weeks paid holiday (pro-rata), inclusive of Bank Holidays
Long-Service & Recognition awards
Access to shopping discounts
Pension scheme
So what are you waiting for?
Apply in confidence with your CV (even if it's not fully up to date) or call Tim, the Principal Consultant supporting this employer.
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Type: Permanent Location: Weston-Super-Mare, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £40000 - £45000 per annum + additional benefits
Posted: 2026-07-06 10:21:42
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Registered Manager (RGN or RMN) - Nursing and Dementia Care Coventry / Warwickshire · £60,000-£70,000 + bonus
Most management jobs hand you a problem to fix.
This one hands you something rarer: a settled, well-run home with a loyal team and a genuinely good local name, and the freedom to make it even better.
It's a mid-sized, purpose-built home delivering nursing and dementia care, sat within easy reach of the M6, M69 and M42.
The kind of place where families know the staff by name and the staff actually stay.
Your job isn't to turn it around.
It's to protect what's already good, sharpen what could be sharper, and lead from the floor as much as the office.
You'll run the home with real independence, owning clinical quality, compliance, staffing and culture, backed by a quality team and senior leadership who trust experienced managers to actually manage.
You keep your clinical voice in the building rather than parked at the office door.
The non-negotiables
Active NMC registration (RGN or RMN) with a current pin
A track record as a Registered / Clinical / Deputy / Acting Manager (3+ years in a leadership role)
Level 5 Diploma in Health & Social Care, or well on the way
A proper grip on CQC standards, and the evidence you've used them to lift a service rather than just survive an inspection
Confident with local authorities, families and multidisciplinary teams
The kind of leadership that makes good people want to stick around
What's on the table
£60,000-£70,000 + bonus, comfortably ahead of the local market
Autonomy that's real, not autonomy on a slide
Leadership and clinical development behind you
A home you'll be proud to put your name to
You'll need full, unrestricted right to work in the UK; sponsorship isn't available for this role.
Send your CV, even if it's not bang up to date, or call for a confidential, no-pressure conversation.
Everything is handled in complete confidence.
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Type: Permanent Location: Coventry, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Additional benefits
Posted: 2026-06-16 22:06:22
