Senior District Manager

Senior District Manager
Location: Remote with regular travel across the South of England
Contract: 37.5 hours per week | Permanent
Salary: £80,000.00 per annum + £6,400.00 car allowance

As Senior District Manager, you'll lead a portfolio of six care homes, ensuring exceptional care, strong operational performance, and outstanding resident experiences. Acting as a trusted deputy to the Director of Care Services, you'll play a key role in shaping regional strategy, supporting senior leaders, and driving continuous improvement across our services.

This is a highly influential role where you'll combine operational leadership, quality oversight and people development to ensure our homes continue to deliver the highest standards of care and support.

What you'll do

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across a portfolio of six care homes, ensuring strong performance against quality, financial, and operational objectives.
• Work closely with District Managers, Regional Support Managers and Home Managers to share best practice, strengthen performance, and build high-performing teams.
• Champion a culture of safe, high-quality, person-centred care, ensuring homes remain inspection-ready and fully compliant with CQC regulations, governance requirements, and sector best practice.
• Keep residents at the heart of every decision, driving initiatives that enhance quality of life, resident satisfaction, and overall resident experience.
• Lead on complex operational matters, including safeguarding concerns, complaints, and service improvement programmes.
• Monitor budgets, occupancy, and key performance indicators, using data and insight to drive financial sustainability and operational excellence.
• Coach, develop and inspire Home Managers and leadership teams, supporting talent development, colleague engagement, recruitment, and retention.
• Support the Director of Care Services with regional priorities, service development initiatives, and strategic projects, representing the region at meetings and across the wider organisation.

What you'll bring

• Significant senior leadership experience within multi-site residential care.
• A proven track record of managing a portfolio of care homes or services and delivering strong operational performance.
• Extensive knowledge of CQC regulations, compliance, governance, safeguarding, and person-centred care, including dementia care.
• Passion for delivering outstanding resident experiences and achieving positive outcomes for older people.
• Commercial awareness, with experience managing budgets, occupancy, and performance data.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels.
• Experience leading change, driving continuous improvement and supporting services through periods of growth and transformation.
• A proactive, resilient, and values-driven leadership style, with the flexibility to travel regularly across the region.

Join us and help deliver exceptional care, operational excellence, and outstanding resident experiences across our homes.