Registered Care Home Manager at Exemplar Health Care, Ledsham

Care home: Wheldale Heights - Castleford

Contract type: Full Time, 40 hours per week (Monday - Friday)

Rate: Competitive salary-dependent on experience

This is an exciting opportunity to work for a forward-thinking and growing provider. Join us as our new Home Manager at Wheldale Heights, Castleford.

This role offers you the opportunity to shape your own service and team, and really make a difference to people’s lives in a purpose built, state of the art home.

We have innovative digital systems to support you in all aspects of running your home, so you can spend less time doing paperwork and more time with your team and the people you support.

For Managers wishing to develop and grow, our training is second to none. We have a range of in-house leadership and management development programmes to support your career development.

About Wheldale Heights

Located on Wheldon Road in Ferry Fryston, Wheldale Heights has 24 bedrooms across two small, purpose-built units, creating a homely and supportive environment that’s more responsive to individual needs.

Wheldale Heights is split into two units, the Lynx Unit and the Orion Unit. The Lynx Unit is a male only unit, providing care for complex mental health needs arising from brain injury or neurological diagnosis, such as acquired brain injury or dementia. The Orion Unit provides care for complex mental health needs linked to the early to mid-stage of a neurological diagnosis such as Huntingdon's disease. 

We are thrilled to share that Wheldale Heights achieved a Good rated CQC as of April 2026! Creating an ideal environment for a new Home Manager to lead an engaged and passionate team, as the home continues to strive for outstanding care!

About the role

As a Home Manager with Exemplar Health Care, you won’t just manage your home, you’ll be the heartbeat of everything that happens there.

You’ll be given a great deal of autonomy and will lead by example, driving your team and pushing for continuous improvement daily. You’ll provide person-centred and quality driven care to ensure that you make every day better for the people who live and work in your home.

This is both an inward and outward focused position, demanding attention to multiple factors, including but not limited to:

quality initiatives and improvement

team leadership and management

recruitment and colleague development

referral management and occupancy

data collection, analysis and interpretation

financial management

customer relationships and marketing to ensure business sustainability and success.

About you

Above all, you’re someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.

You must also have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN. 

As this is a leadership role, you should have a minimum of three years management experience, ideally in a complex care setting. The role is also ideal for an experienced Deputy Manager looking for the next step in their career. 

You’re also someone with:

a thorough understanding of nursing care best practice, sector specific and employer legislation and governance frameworks  

great communication skills, able to build relationships with local commissioners and professionals

the ability to inspire, lead and manage a team

excellent time management skills, able to manage conflicting priorities and meet deadlines

an excellent range of clinical, business, digital and operational skills.

What we offer

We offer great rewards and perks including: 

excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects

retail and lifestyle reward discounts

excellent bonus scheme upon meeting KPIs

excellent pension plan

Bupa health care cover

electric car salary sacrifice scheme

life assurance

paid access to the RCNi Learning platform

24/7 counselling and support

Blue Light Card eligibility.

How to apply

Sound good? We’d love to hear from you. Click the button to ‘APPLY NOW’. 

Please note, this role is not eligible for sponsorship. Candidates without an existing visa or right to work in the UK are unlikely to be suitable for the post.