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Care Home Manager - Opening for 2025!
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Join Our Team as a Home Manager at Keymer Hall Care Home byBoutique Care Homes!
About Boutique Care Homes
Boutique Care Homes is a family-run care provider, we pride ourselves on providing compassionate care, with true family values, ensuring your loved one lives a fulfilled life, enjoying fresh, nutritious home-cooked food and a choice of activities and entertainment in their later life. Our team is dynamic and energetic, evolving with the times, ensuring safety and well-being come first, providing you peace of mind that your loved one is well cared for.
Why Boutique Care Homes?
Competitive salary
Company pension
Free team lunches*
Free on-site parking*
Free employee expert counselling & support from qualified advisors, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Refer a friend incentive scheme
Blue Light Card discounts
BCH quarterly recognition awards
Long service awards
Job Description
As the Home Manager you will be responsible for the overall management and operation of the care home. You will lead the team in delivering the highest standards of care, ensuring compliance with regulations, and fostering a supportive and nurturing environment for both residents and team.
Your role is essential in promoting the ethos & values of the company and creating a safe, comfortable, and homely atmosphere where residents can thrive.
Key Responsibilities
* Take responsibility for all aspects of the day-to-day running of the care home.
* Provide strong and visionary leadership to all departments, including care, activities and support staff.
* Oversee and manage all aspects of care delivery, ensuring residents receive person-centred care tailored to their individual needs.
* Ensure strict adherence to all healthcare regulations, standards, and policies.
* Lead the care home through inspections and audits, addressing any areas of improvement and implementing corrective actions.
* Ensure that all of the Care Quality Commissions requirements of written record keeping are strictly adhered to.
* Manage the care home's budget, resources, and procurement to ensure efficient and effective operations.
* Maintain occupancy levels as per budget.
* Develop and implement policies and procedures to maintain and improve standards of care.
* Lead the team, ensuring that the highest standards of resident care are achieved.
* Ensure that team supervision and appraisals are carried out in line with company policy.
* Effective communication with all parties including team, colleagues, residents, families, social workers and other external agencies.
* Arrange and chair regular team meetings and promote good communication between team and management in line with company policy.
* Ensure that there is budget control for all areas in terms of ordering and consumption and be commercially aware.
* Attend management meetings and ensure timely completion of action points and data / reporting requirement submissions.
* Provide information to the Homes administration and Head Office team on all matters relating to resident admissions, moves, deaths and fees together with purchases and equipment requirements.
* Ensure that the home is always fully covered with team and that the resident: team ratios are within the prescribed guidelines and in line with resident dependency and budget.
* Foster a positive and collaborative team culture, promoting the companys policies, procedures, and core values.
* Provide coaching, supervision, training, and support to the team to help them achieve their best potential.
* Prioritise the well-being and quality of life for residents, ensuring their physical and emotional needs are met.
* Develop and implement individualised care plans, regularly assessing and reviewing resident care.
* Carry out pre-admission assessments in conjunction with the Deputy Manager.
* Engage with residents and their families to address concerns and maintain high resident satisfaction.
* The Manager will need to ensure they maintain a good working relationship with all external bodies, including any representative of the CQC, local GP's, local Authority Care Managers, local Discharge Teams, current & prospective residents, relatives / Representatives of current / prospective residents and members of the local community, who should be encouraged to support the Home and become involved in events.
* Ensure all relevant statutory notifications are sent to CQC in a timely manner.
* Ensure that the home promotes an active health and safety at work policy and all team are fully aware of it.
Skills, Qualifications & Experience
* Proven experience in a senior management role within a care home or healthcare setting.
* Strong knowledge of healthcare regulations, compliance, and best practices.
* Exceptional leadership and communication skills.
* Empathy, patience, and a commitment to providing person-centred care.
* Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment.
* Diploma Level 5 or equivalent qualification in Leadership and Management.
* Ability to multi-task and prioritise.
* Strong commercial awareness care industry preferred but not required.
* Good people & relationship building skills.
* Clear, methodical working approach.
* Positive work ethics.
* Discretion and confidentiality.
* Highly proficient at Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word and Excel).
If you're ready to make a difference and help us make a positive impact on the lives of our residents, apply today by submitting your CV!
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