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Commissioning Home Manager
Salary: £52,000 per annum | Luxury Elderly Care Provider
A luxury care provider is seeking an experienced Commissioning Home Manager to lead the opening of a new care home scheduled for later this year.
This is a key appointment for a commercially minded and quality-focused Home Manager who understands what is required to take a new service from development stage through to a successful opening, strong occupancy, and high standards of care.
You will lead the full commissioning journey, building the team, embedding systems, and establishing the home's reputation within the local community.
The Role
You will take full responsibility for preparing the home for opening and delivering a safe, well-led, and commercially successful service from day one.
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Leading the pre-opening plan, ensuring the home is operationally ready for launch.
- Recruiting, inducting, and developing a high-performing care, nursing, hospitality, and support team.
- Building occupancy through local relationship building, enquiry management, and community engagement.
- Establishing strong links with local authorities, commissioners, healthcare professionals, and community groups.
- Ensuring the home meets all CQC, safeguarding, health and safety, and governance requirements.
- Creating a positive, values-led culture focused on exceptional resident experience.
- Developing robust systems for care planning, medication, auditing, training, and quality assurance.
- Managing budgets, staffing costs, agency use, and other key performance measures.
- Supporting families through the admissions process and ensuring a high-quality customer journey.
- Providing visible leadership and maintaining high standards across care, clinical practice, hospitality, and the home environment.
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About You
You will be an experienced Home Manager with a strong background in elderly residential, nursing, or dementia care. Previous commissioning experience would be highly desirable, although experienced turnaround or high-occupancy Home Managers will also be considered.
You Will Need:
- Proven experience as a Registered Home Manager within elderly care.
- A strong understanding of CQC requirements, quality assurance, and safeguarding.
- Experience recruiting, developing, and retaining teams.
- Commercial awareness, including occupancy, budgets, staffing, and agency management.
- A track record of improving standards, building occupancy, or delivering successful change.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust with residents, families, and external professionals.
- A hands-on and organized approach, with the resilience to manage a busy pre-opening period.
- An active NMC PIN would be beneficial, but is not essential.
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What is on Offer
- Salary of £52,000 per annum.
- The opportunity to lead a new luxury care home from the outset.
- Support from an established provider and senior operational team.
- Genuine scope to shape the culture, reputation, and performance of a new service.
If you are an experienced care leader who takes pride in delivering outstanding standards and wants the opportunity to build a service from the ground up, apply now.
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