Registered Home Manager / Registered Service Manager – Nursing & Complex Care
£65,000 per annum | Full-time | Permanent
Important: No sponsorship available. You must have the right to work in the UK.
Introduction
We are recruiting for an experienced Registered Home Manager to lead a newly refurbished, purpose-built nursing home supporting adults with complex needs. This is a senior leadership role for a confident CQC Registered Manager who can drive quality, compliance, and service development while maintaining a calm, person-centred culture.
The service supports working-age to older adults with neurodegenerative conditions, mental health diagnoses, acquired brain injury (ABI/TBI), physical disabilities, and behaviours that may challenge. This is an excellent opportunity to take full operational ownership of a specialist service with strong clinical and operational support.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the day-to-day operational and clinical management of the service, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care.
- Act as the CQC Registered Manager, maintaining full compliance with regulatory standards and governance frameworks.
- Drive the service towards achieving and sustaining a minimum ‘Good’ CQC rating.
- Provide strong leadership to nursing, care, and support teams through supervision, appraisal, coaching, and performance management.
- Oversee staffing, rotas, recruitment, retention, and workforce planning.
- Ensure robust care planning, risk management, safeguarding, and incident reporting processes.
- Maintain oversight of medication management and clinical governance in line with best practice.
- Coordinate service user reviews and maintain effective relationships with families, commissioners, and external professionals.
- Work closely with regional, clinical, and compliance teams to embed continuous improvement.
- Participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota (shared responsibility).
Requirements
- Proven experience as a CQC Registered Home Manager / Registered Service Manager within nursing, mental health, or complex care settings.
- Strong working knowledge of CQC regulations, inspection frameworks, and quality governance.
- NVQ Level 5 in Leadership & Management (or equivalent).
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, including nurses and support workers.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and people management skills.
- Confident with audits, risk assessment, safeguarding, and quality improvement.
- Ability to manage operational priorities, staffing, and service performance effectively.
- Desirable: NMC registration (RGN/RMN/RNLD).
Pay & Benefits
- £65,000 per annum
- Full-time, permanent contract (Monday–Friday, 37.5 hours)
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Long service awards
- Market-leading training and leadership development programmes
- Ongoing mentoring and career progression support
- Employee benefits platform including retail, travel, and wellbeing discounts
- 24/7 confidential counselling and wellbeing support
Why Apply?
This is a rare opportunity to lead a specialist nursing service with excellent infrastructure, strong support, and a clear commitment to quality care. You’ll have the autonomy to lead, with the backing of experienced regional and clinical teams.
Apply Today
If you are an experienced Registered Home Manager looking for your next leadership role, we would love to hear from you. Applications are reviewed on receipt and interviews may be arranged quickly.
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