Registered Care Home Manager

Job summary

Job Vacancy: Registered Care Home Manager 

Location : Lulworth House Residential Care Home in Maidstone, Kent
Contracted hours:  40  hours per week

Work flexibility in accordance with your availability and the service requirements
Annual rate of pay:  Starting at £53,000

Please note that once you submit your application, you’ll receive an email asking for your response to proceed to the next stages, so be sure to check your junk email folder regularly.

About the Role

We are pleased to invite applications for the position of Registered Manager within our residential care home. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced leader to step into a key role, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, person?centred care and maintaining compliance with Care Quality Commission standards.

The Registered Manager will be responsible for the overall operational management of the home, supporting staff, maintaining excellent care standards, and promoting a positive and respectful environment for residents, families, and colleagues.

The perfect role for you
Being a caring heart, with a passion for making people happy, you will thrive on bringing a smile on our residents’ face, whilst supporting their physical and mental wellbeing. Being a kind, compassionate person who respects people’s personal choice, dignity and privacy, we would be honoured to welcome you in our team.

You will have the opportunity to excel  whilst:
The Registered Care Home Manager's responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• • Provide strong, inspirational leadership to the care team.
  • Ensure the home meets all regulatory and legislative requirements, including CQC standards.
  • Oversee care planning, safeguarding, and clinical governance processes.
  • Manage staffing levels, rotas, recruitment, and staff development.
  • Maintain excellent relationships with residents, families, healthcare professionals, and external stakeholders.
  • Monitor and manage the home’s performance, including quality assurance, audits, and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Ensure financial and budgetary targets are met while maintaining high-quality care.

Essential Requirements 

• Previous experience in a leadership or deputy management role within a care or nursing setting.
• Strong understanding of CQC regulations and best practice in adult social care.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and develop a multi-disciplinary team.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
• Passionate commitment to delivering safe, personalised, high-quality care

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care.

What we offer in return to your dedication:

• Competitive pay and paid training hours
• Enhanced pay rate for Bank Holidays
• Flexibility of work according to your personal availability
• Workplace pension
• ‘Refer a Friend’ payments of up to £1000
• Enhanced DBS paid for by the company on completion of six months employment
• Comprehensive induction programme
• Access to funded qualifications via the apprenticeship programme
• 5.6 weeks annual leave
• Working in a supportive team
• The opportunity to help your team develop
• Free 24-hour access to confidential employee support helpline
• Nellsar work uniforms

If you would like to obtain more details about this exciting role, please contact 

Why Choose Us?
Nellsar has been a family-run Company since 1988 and we provide exceptional care for residents across our group of 13 Care Homes in Kent, Surrey, and Essex. We consistently strive to achieve the highest standards of professional and person-centred care, and we achieve this by promoting the wellbeing and development of our team members.  Our values focus on the individual, creating an inclusive environment with both residents and our teams at the heart of what we do every day.

It’s our mission at Nellsar to ensure that people live life to the full

• We are passionate about making every day count and bringing colour and laughter to the people living in our home, their visitors and the team supporting them.

• More information about  Lulworth House Residential Care Home

• You will be an important member of the  Lulworth House family, who will support you to reach your goals and feel accomplished by enhancing other people’s quality of life.

Nellsar is an Equal Opportunity employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we are committed to creating a work environment that embraces and celebrates individual differences.

Thank you for considering the possibility of joining the Nellsar family, we are looking forward to welcoming you!