Home Manager

Avondale Care Home, Aylesbury. Make a difference to people's lives every day with a rewarding career at Porthaven Care Homes. About the role As Home Manager, you will be responsible for the overall management and performance of one of our homes, ensuring residents receive safe, high-quality, person-centred care in a warm, welcoming and well-led environment. In this role you will: Lead and be accountable for the overall management, performance, safety, quality and leadership of the home. Ensure consistently high standards of resident care, wellbeing, dignity, safety and quality of life. Provide visible, inspirational leadership so colleagues can deliver exceptional person-centred care. Maintain full compliance with CQC regulations, safeguarding requirements, health and safety legislation, employment requirements and company policies. Take responsibility for clinical governance, quality assurance, audits, risk management and continuous improvement activity. Manage the home's occupancy, reputation, budgets, resources, workforce deployment and key performance indicators. Build positive relationships with residents, relatives, colleagues, commissioners, healthcare professionals, local authorities, regulatory bodies and the wider community. Promote a safe, caring, inclusive and supportive environment for residents, relatives, visitors, colleagues and contractors. Act as the Registered Manager where applicable, maintaining inspection readiness, statutory notifications and regulatory compliance. Participate in the management on-call rota and provide leadership support outside normal working hours when required. About you You will be a values-led, compassionate and resident-focused leader with the confidence to manage a busy care home and inspire colleagues across care, nursing, hospitality, housekeeping, maintenance and administration teams. You will be professional, accountable, approachable and able to build trust with residents, relatives, colleagues and external partners. You will also have: Experience as a Home Manager or Deputy Manager within a nursing home setting. Strong knowledge of CQC Fundamental Standards, safeguarding, duty of candour, mental capacity, deprivation of liberty safeguards and adult social care legislation. Registered nurse status with strong clinical knowledge. Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing recruitment, onboarding, retention, performance, supervision and colleague development. The ability to manage budgets, occupancy, workforce planning, quality performance indicators and operational performance. Experience handling safeguarding, complaints, incidents, audits, inspections and continuous improvement action plans. Excellent communication, organisation, decision-making, influencing and relationship-building skills. Confident IT skills, including the use of care planning systems, rota systems, audit tools, incident reporting and Microsoft Office applications. A calm, resilient, solution-focused and flexible approach, with strong attention to detail and a commitment to dignity, inclusion and safeguarding. We will provide ongoing support, training and development to help you continue growing as a leader and support your team to deliver excellent outcomes for residents. Successful candidates will be required to provide satisfactory references, complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and be authorised to work in the United Kingdom. What Porthaven Offers: Great pay with a competitive salary – let's talk! Competitive KPI driven bonus structure. Blue Light Card. Colleague Perks & Discounts across high-street brands. FlexEarn – access a portion of your wages before payday. Wellbeing Support through our Employee Assistance Programme. Online GP services for you and your family. Fully funded training & development for your career growth. Company pension scheme. Cycle to work scheme. Free uniform. Free Parking Free enhanced DBS provided. Porthaven are proud to have signed the Armed Forces Covenant, pledging our commitment and support to the Armed Forces community, veterans, reservists and their families.