In this role you will lead a 21-bed specialist nursing home, ensuring high-quality, person-centred care through strong clinical governance and team development. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to support residents’ independence, dignity and meaningful outcomes. You’ll drive quality, compliance and service improvement, shaping practice and outcomes across the service. This is a values-led leadership role with a clear impact on residents, families and staff.
Pay / Benefits
Permanent contract
Full-time
Salary: £56,638.40 per year
On call as required
Supportive values and development focus
Responsibilities
Provide strong, visible leadership across the service to foster a positive culture and high-quality care
Champion clinical governance and evidence-based practice for complex needs
Promote person-centred care, independence, and meaningful outcomes
Strengthen multidisciplinary working among nursing, neuro-physiotherapy and enabling staff
Develop a positive team culture with staff coaching, training and development
Drive quality and improvement including regulatory compliance and QA
Shape the service’s future with stakeholders and strategic direction
Supervise and mentor Service Delivery Leaders and Team Leaders
Manage staffing, on-call duties, and wellbeing of staff
Oversee service delivery plans, budgets, KPIs, and contracts updates
Ensure learning from audits and embedding improvements into policies
Maintain effective external and internal communication and representing the service at events
Participate in local networking and strategic projects with directors
Promote Shaftesbury values and organisational objectives
Prepare and review service improvement plans and governance activities
Ensure accurate management accounts and variances analysis
Oversee safeguarding and regulatory requirements
Conduct staff meetings and identify training needs
Key requirements
Level 5 Diploma in Health and Social Care or equivalent
Current UK professional registration
Experience of leading a care home/service with regulatory compliance responsibility
Able to perform Disclosure and Barring Service checks
Ability to develop and monitor budgets, KPIs and governance calendars
Experience with self-assessment audits and quality assurance processes
Contracting experience to re-assess care needs and new contracts when required
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