Home Manager

Colten Care Limited; Poole; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious healthcare provider is seeking a Home Manager for its facility. The role involves managing staff and resources, ensuring quality care for residents, and driving continuous improvement. Candidates should have care home management experience, preferably in dementia care, and skills in leadership and marketing. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and comprehensive support for ongoing training and development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus and benefits

Annual leave plus bank holidays

Free meals and refreshments on duty

Company pension scheme

Support for further studies

Qualifications

• Relevant care home management experience in a dementia community.
• Good track record of performance in line with CQC standards.
• Experience in private sector nursing homes.

Responsibilities

• Manage staff and resources for residents' care.
• Create and lead a vision for continuous improvement.
• Develop community contacts and local marketing opportunities.

Skills

Care home management experience

Leadership and communication

Understanding commercial aspects

Marketing experience

Education

Level 5 diploma/NVQ in Health and Social Care

Job description

Overview

Working Hours: 40 hours per week including rostered weekends and occasional night duties. Plus, emergency ‘on-call’ duties shared with the home’s management team

Location: Poole, Dorset

Site: The Aldbury

Closing Date: 26/02/2026

Home Manager

Based at The Aldbury, BH14 4NA

40 hours per week including rostered weekends and occasional night duties. Plus, emergency ‘on-call’ duties shared with the home’s management team

Colten Care are recruiting for a Home Manager to manage staff and resources so that each resident can enjoy a dignified and fulfilling life. You’ll be working closely with your Clinical Lead and the wider healthcare and hospitality teams to ensure the quality of individual service and care consistently meets our own high standards and those of our external regulators.

Reporting to the regional Operations Manager, you will create and lead a vision for the home to ensure a philosophy of continuous improvement, encouraging and supporting the home’s journey to ‘outstanding’. Whilst managing people and processes, being a Home Manager is a complex, influential and highly rewarding role involving close liaison with residents, their families, professional contacts and multi-disciplinary teams.

There is plenty of scope to build and maintain community contacts, whilst developing the home’s profile and seizing marketing opportunities in the local area. To help you achieve and be successful, you’ll be supported by our fantastic customer service and marketing teams.

Responsibilities

So what can you bring?

Our ideal candidate will have relevant care home management experience having worked in a dementia community, and a good track record of performance in line with CQC standards and expectations. You’ll have experience of working within the private sector in medium to large nursing homes and understand the commercial aspects of the business. You’ll enjoy the marketing side of the role and relish the challenge of bringing in new business.

If you are a qualified Nurse, that would be great but not essential, as you will be supported by a Clinical Lead. A Level 5 diploma/NVQ qualification in Health and Social Care is desirable.

Essential requirement- Business insurance is essential due to travel during work hours

You’ll match our values, being an individual who is friendly, kind, honest and reassuring. An effective leader and communicator, you’ll share our goal of delivering excellence in person-centred care for our residents.

Benefits

In return we offer a competitive salary, bonus and benefits. Full induction and ongoing training provided, supported by a network of clinical and professional support teams.

In addition, the benefits include:

• Reimbursement of relevant annual professional subscriptions, including NMC registration
• 25 days annual leave plus 8 Bank holidays
• Support for revalidation (for qualified nurses)
• Support with further studies and diploma qualifications
• Annual pay review
• Free meals and refreshments on duty
• Company pension scheme
• Background checks at no cost to you

About us

Colten Care is an expanding family-owned business with 21 beautifully appointed nursing homes across Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and West Sussex.

We have 7 rated services as ‘Outstanding’ with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and we provide luxury residential, general nursing, dementia and short-stay care.

We are a prestigious, award-winning healthcare provider that champions the latest approach to person-centred care. Each of our homes has a distinct character while retaining that all-important sense of ‘home.’