Home Manager Residential Home
Akari Care LimitedGateshead, North East
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with Akari Care Limited based in Gateshead. The advertised salary is £46,359. Applications close on 20 November 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Home Manager to lead our residential care home team. As a Home Manager at Akari Care, you will play a key...
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Home Manager to lead our residential care home team. As a Home Manager at Akari Care, you will play a key role in ensuring the highest standards of care, enhancing the well-being of our residents, and championing personalised care. Key responsibilities include providing strong leadership to colleagues, overseeing day-to-day operations, ensuring quality care tailored to individual needs, and maintaining regulatory compliance. The role requires strong leadership skills, a pragmatic approach to achieving business results, and the ability to foster a supportive and motivated work environment through team development.
We are seeking a motivated and compassionate Home Manager to lead our residential care home team. As a Home Manager at Akari Care, you will play a key role in ensuring the highest standards of care, enhancing the well-being of our residents, championing personalised care.
You will lead our team, creating an environment that promotes dignity and independence, striving for excellence through the highest standards of care. The right candidate will be pragmatic in their approach and be able to balance running a caring and empathetic home alongside achieving business results.
- Leadership Support: To providing strong and effective leadership our Colleagues, fostering a culture of excellence, compassion, and continuous improvement.
- Operational Management: Helping oversee the day-to-day operations of the care home, ensuring compliance with all Akari Care and regulatory standards.
- Quality Care: Ensuring the delivery of exceptional care meeting the individual needs of each resident, promoting their well-being and dignity.
- Team Development: Supporting the recruitment, training and development of Colleagues. Including the mentoring of the team, fostering a supportive and motivated work environment.
- Care oversight: Ensuring resident care plans reflect their current needs and are kept under review, working with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure any changes or concerns are addressed promptly.
- Communication: Maintenance of clear and accurate records of care to be provided and communicate effectively with residents, families, and Colleagues.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring the home adheres to all relevant regulations and standards, implementing policies and procedures that promote safety and quality care.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Building and maintaining positive relationships with residents, families, Colleagues, and external stakeholders to ensure clear and effective communication.
- Minimum of a Level 5 NVQ in Leadership and Management
- Experience of working in the health care sector at home management level.
- Highly driven individual, with exceptional personal motivation and belief in quality of care.
- Strong leadership skills and management qualities with a dynamic and flexible approach to the role.
Benefits and Recognition
At Akari Care, we are committed to recognising and rewarding the dedication of our Colleagues. As part of our team, you will have access to a range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing, professional development, and work-life balance, including:
- Competitive salary and annual leave entitlement
- Cash bonus subject to achievement of business targets
- Pension scheme
- Life cover
- Employee Assistance Programme, providing confidential support and advice
- Access to a range of retail, leisure, and lifestyle discounts
- Training and development opportunities to support career progression
- Recognition and Values Awards celebrating individual and team achievements
Our Values
At Akari Care, our values are at the heart of everything we do. We recognise Colleagues who consistently demonstrate our commitment to being:
Personalised treating every individual as unique and tailoring our approach accordingly.
Kind showing compassion, empathy, and respect in all interactions.
Caring - Creating a warmand inclusive environment in which our residents and staff have a sense of security and belonging.
Trusted acting with integrity, professionalism, and accountability.
Community working together to create supportive environments for residents, Colleagues, and the communities we serve.
We believe that by recognising and celebrating these values, we create a positive workplace culture for all our Colleagues.
Akari Care is proudly working towards achieving Veteran Friendly Frameworkstatus, demonstrating our commitment to supporting those who have served. We warmly welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community and value the skills, experience, and dedication that they bring to our teams.
Akari Care is an equal opportunity employer celebrating diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our residents and Colleagues.
Akari Care is a respected provider of residential care, committed to recognising and rewarding the dedication of our colleagues. We are focused on enhancing the well-being of our residents by delivering exceptional care tailored to individual needs. Akari Care values the contributions of all team members and offers an inclusive environment that supports career progression, with a range of benefits designed to promote work-life balance and professional development. We warmly welcome applications from members of the Armed Forces community, valuing the skills and dedication they bring to our teams. Akari Care is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity.
Essential: - Minimum of a Level 5 NVQ in Leadership and Management, Experience working in the health care sector at home management level, Highly driven individual, Strong leadership skills.
How this role compares
We hold 383 NHS vacancies in North East that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays more than about 72% of them.
There are 13,012 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 652 of them in North East.
You have 30 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 46 days, so this is about the usual amount of time.
Akari Care Limited has 146 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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