Lead with purpose and make a real difference every day. As our Registered Care Home Manager, you’ll shape a warm, safe, and high-quality environment where residents truly feel at home. This is your opportunity to inspire and lead a dedicated team, drive exceptional care standards, and create a culture where compassion, dignity, and excellence are embedded in everything you do.

Where you'll be working

• Click here to view the care home - Cheriton Residential Care Home in Dorchester, Dorset | Agincare Care Centre

As an Agincare employee you'll enjoy

• Up to £60,000 per year depending on experience
• Refer a friend scheme - earn up to £1000*
• Outstanding career development
• Fully funded training up to QCF level 5
• Blue Light care discount package
• Company pension scheme

What is required from you?

• A minimum of 12 months on your right to work in the UK
• Management qualification at QCF level 4 or equivalent or a willingness to work towards this qualification
• Previous registration in a residential service preferable
• Demonstrable up to date knowledge of the care sector including the running of a care home and regulatory framework
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Experience of working with vulnerable client groups
• Must be able to work 40 hours per week

A day in the life of a Registered Manager

As the Registered Manager, you will lead the team to provide a safe, caring, responsive and effective service for the residents in your care home, ensuring delivery of the highest possible care standards fully compliant with all CQC statutory regulations, whilst making sure you achieve your operational and quality assurance KPI's.

Your day to day responsibilities therefore will include:

• Ensuring all your residents understand the care and treatment choices that are available to them and that the care is provided in a way that promotes choice, dignity and individuality
• Reviewing existing care provision to ensure it meets the current physical and mental health needs of your residents and in turn liaising with the residents, internal staff, health professionals, social workers and other interested parties to adapt existing plans to meet current needs
• Ensuring that auditing is carried out to fully understand that quality of the service being provided and taking quick reparative action if any concerns are raised
• Ensuring that effective risk assessments are in place to protect the needs of your residents and the overall safety of your home.
• Inducting new staff, and ensuring that existing staff are regularly trained, motivated, supervised and supported.
• Carrying out any potential disciplinary or formative action against team members as and when required.
• Effectively staffing your home to ensure that personnel can cover the needs of your residents and having effective contingency plans in case of unexpected absence or events.
• Investigating any complaints surrounding safeguarding, abuse, or delivery of your services and ensuring notifications and duty of candour are sent to the right parties.

About Agincare

Agincare is proudly celebrating 40years of caring for communities. As a rapidlygrowing, family-ownedcare provider with more than5,500 team members, and expanding every day, we continue to strengthen our services through recent care home developments and the launch of ournew not-for-profit Children’s Services. Today,Agincare is one of the UK’s largest care providers, delivering care and nursing homes, home care, extra care, supported living, and live-in care across more than 170 locationsnationwide.

As a signatory of the Care Leaver Covenant, we are committed tosupporting care leavers by guaranteeing either an interview or an informal career conversation. We are proud to support the Armed Forcescommunity through our alliance,offering guaranteed interviewsto service leavers and members of the military community.

All of our services are regulated by the CQCand Agincare is proud to be anequal opportunities employerand encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.At present, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

As care is always in high demand, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities available. If this particular role isn’t the right fit for you, we encourage you to explore our other vacancies,www.agincare.com/careers