Home Manager in Ipswich
Posted by Leaders in Care
£70,000 a year
Ipswich · Permanent
Up to £70,000 per annum + competitive bonus
Are you an experienced Home Manager looking for an opportunity to shape a positive team culture and deliver exceptional, person-centred care?
We are recruiting for a compassionate, commercially aware and values-led Home Manager to lead an established nursing and residential care home in a peaceful village setting near Ipswich.
The home provides a range of services, including nursing, residential, dementia, respite and specialist neurological care. With landscaped gardens, welcoming communal spaces and a focus on meaningful activities and wellbeing, it offers an environment where quality of life matters just as much as quality of care.
This is an opportunity to join a family-run care provider that puts relationships, dignity and individual choice at the heart of its approach.
The Role – Home Manager As Registered Home Manager, you will take overall responsibility for the home’s day-to-day management, balancing excellent care delivery with strong leadership, regulatory compliance and commercial performance.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Leading safe, person-centred nursing and residential care.
- Maintaining robust governance, quality assurance, audits and care planning.
- Ensuring safeguarding concerns are recognised, escalated and managed appropriately.
- Supporting a coordinated approach to residents’ complex and changing care needs.
- Recruiting, coaching and developing a confident, accountable team.
- Building trusting relationships with residents, relatives and healthcare professionals.
- Managing budgets, staffing resources and occupancy.
- Embedding continuous improvement and maintaining readiness for CQC inspection.
- Championing meaningful activities, wellbeing and residents’ independence.
You will ideally bring:
- Experience as a Home Manager, Registered Manager, Nursing Home Manager or an experienced Deputy Manager ready to progress.
- A strong understanding of nursing and residential care operations.
- A track record of delivering high standards of care, compliance and team performance.
- Sound knowledge of CQC requirements, safeguarding and clinical governance.
- Commercial awareness, including budget management and occupancy development.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build lasting relationships.
- A genuine commitment to dignity, choice and person-centred care.
Salary & Benefits
- Up to £70,000 per annum.
- Competitive performance-related bonus.
- Supportive senior leadership within a family-run care provider.
- The opportunity to shape the home’s culture and ongoing development.
- Ongoing training, development and career progression.
Keywords: Home Manager, Registered Manager, Nursing Home Manager, Care Home Manager, Deputy Manager, Nursing Care, Residential Care, Dementia Care, Clinical Governance, CQC, Ipswich, Suffolk, Needham Market, Claydon.
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