Home Manager. Priesty Fields Nursing Home £65,000 - £75,000 per annum, plus bonuses DOE 40 hours a week Permanent position Start date: November 2024 Residential home management backgrounds considered (NMC registration required) This outstanding opportunity offers an experienced and dynamic Home Manager a chance to broaden their expertise, by transitioning into a clinical setting to oversee a modern, purpose-built residential and nursing home in Congelton. Long gone are the days of tired corridors, wilted wallpaper and stuffy sitting rooms The Sandstone vision is to provide its residents and staff with the opportunity to live and work in high-quality, modern and dynamic environments, in which our residents and their loved ones can relax, enjoy and call their own home. This stunning 78-bed home offers its residents state-of-the-art facilities unrivalled in the area, to include a coffee shop/bistro, hair & nail salon, separate dining and lounge areas and landscaped gardens, whilst at the same time providing exceptional standards of care supported by the very latest care planning and nurse-call technology. Here at Priesty Fields, we provide high-quality specialist/complex nursing care and residential dementia care on separate floors, with a person-centred focus based on the needs and wishes of the residents maintained at all times. As a Home Manager at Priesty Fields, your role will involve: Taking the lead in ensuring that outstanding levels of care are provided to residents at all times Offer supervision, support and training to Nurse, Senior Carer and Care Assistant colleagues Ensuring at all times a safe, caring, stimulating and homely environment for residents and their visitors Full operational leadership of a large nursing home Recruitment, retention and training Achieving high compliance and governance outcomes Working to operational and financial KPIs Sandstone employees enjoy a range of benefits: Free Meals. Free DBS. Discounts on the high street - with retailers like Asda, Costa and Argos Refer-a-Friend - and get a £250 bonus Flexible pay - choose when you are paid, and get money management tips too Free wellbeing programme - helping you look after your physical and mental health Employee recognition scheme - we recognise and reward great work Pension scheme - helping you plan for your retirement In-house training - on-going face-to-face training, tailored to you Career opportunities - The chance to ‘make your mark’ and play a key role Role requirements: Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a CQC Registered Home Manager in either a nursing home or residential setting for older adults/dementia care Ability to work to financial KPIs Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of CQC requirements and all other relevant care home legislation The successful candidate will assume full accountability for the operational performance of the Home and be expected to develop and maintain excellent working partnerships with the local authority, outside agencies and within the local community, with a view to consistently achieving excellent occupancy levels as a result. Applicants must be experienced Home Managers, with a relevant management qualification and significant proven experience of successfully running nursing homes and be a registered nurse (RMN/RGN/RNLD). Furthermore, applicants should ideally have previous experience of managing within dementia care settings, whilst at the same time being commercially aware, proactive individuals, with excellent administration skills. A proven ability to recruit, lead and effectively manage competent and motivated staff teams is also an essential requirement of this role. A highly competitive remuneration package awaits the successful candidate, to include an annual salary of up to £65k p.a. (depending on experience), performance-based incentives, a wide range of additional benefits and excellent career prospects with a rapidly expanding, forward-thinking, care-focused operator. Sandstone Care Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer: We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We embrace diversity within each service, as we think it is important that the Social Care Workforce represents the people it serves. We welcome applications from people from backgrounds including disabled candidates, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, LGBTQ as well as non-binary candidates, and those with experience of mental health.