Deputy Manager

Athena Care Homes (UK) Ltd; MARCH; On-site; GBP 50,000 - GBP 58,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading care home company in March seeks a Deputy Manager to support the General Manager in delivering high-quality care. This role, a maternity cover for 12 months, involves ensuring exceptional standards of clinical care, compliance with regulations, and leadership of a dedicated team. The position offers a salary of up to £58,000 per annum and requires experience in management within a care home. Join us to make a difference in residents' lives.

Benefits

28 days of holiday per year

Free Blue Light Card

Refer a friend scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in a management or leadership role within a care home.
• Proven track record for leading, empowering, and supporting a team.
• Proven experience of delivering quality care and achieving financial targets.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and best practice guidelines.
• Deliver quality care, assessing residents’ needs and enhancing their quality of life.
• Promote high standards of care within the team.

Skills

Management experience in a care home

Team leadership and motivation

Understanding of clinical governance

Financial target achievement

Job description

As the Deputy Manager at Aria Court Care Home, you will be responsible for supporting the General Manager in leading the care home team to deliver high quality relationship centred care for our residents. This is a maternity cover contract for 12-months.

About Aria Court Care Home:

After a recent refurbishment, Aria Court is now a sparkling 92-bedroom care home with state-of-the-art equipment and facilities.

Located in a quiet residential nook in March, Cambridgeshire, our home boasts a cinema, hair salon, multiple dining rooms. Beautiful gardens provide a bounty of home-grown fruit and veg.

The kitchen team at Aria Court are award-winning and have even created their own cookbook full of their best recipes. As one of the leading residential care homes in March, Cambridgeshire, Aria Court offers nothing less than the best care for your loved one in a safe and comfortable environment.

About the role:

Reporting to the General Manager, the Deputy Manager plays a key leadership role in ensuring exceptional standards of clinical care and governance across the home. This position is responsible for ensuring clinical care delivery meets all statutory and regulatory requirements, aligns with professional codes of conduct, and reflects company policies and procedures.

The Deputy Manager will provide strong clinical leadership and guidance to the multidisciplinary team, promoting best practice across all areas of the home. With a focus on relationship-centred care, high-quality clinical practice, and specialist dementia care, the role supports the delivery of safe, compassionate, and person-focused care for every resident.

Salary:

Up to £58,000 per annum depending on experience.

Shift Pattern:

40 hours per week, worked on a rota basis between Monday to Sunday.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ensure compliance with all legal, regulatory and best practice guidelines ensuring all risks are proactively managed and issues identified, investigated and resolved.
• Ensure the delivery of quality care continually assessing our residents’ needs and wishes, developing the service to enhance their quality of life.
• Promote high standards of care for your team, actively seeking ways to improve levels of service.
• Take a leadership role for the team, ensuring all staff are supervised appropriately and rotas are in place to enable the smooth, efficient running of the business.
• Be responsible for supervising staff, allocating work, encouraging staff development and ensuring Athena policies are followed.

Training, Skills & Experience Required:

• Experience in a management or leadership role within a care home.
• Proven track record for leading, empowering, supporting & motivating a team.
• Proven experience of delivering quality care and achieving financial targets.
• Good understanding of clinical governance and CQC regulatory framework.

What we can offer:

• Fully comprehensive induction.
• 28 days of holiday per year.
• Free Blue Light Card & access to the Blue Light discount platform.
• Refer a friend scheme.

About Athena:

Athena Care Homes are a family run business with seven homes across East Anglia. We have care homes in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, Kings Lynn (West Norfolk) & Ipswich (Suffolk).

We want to be the first choice for high quality residential, nursing and dementia care, leaving a positive legacy within our communities.

Our care homes are managed by amazing and passionate people, including strong leadership by our home managers with dedicated care, clinical, hospitality and activities teams to provide exceptional care and experience, achieving brilliant outcomes for people in our care.

We hold our values close to our hearts and ensure that team members throughout each of our residential and nursing homes understand them and what importance they hold. We approach everything we do with thought, and we deliver with passion.