via indeed · 24 June 2026 ·6 days ago

Nursing Home Manager

Farrington Care Homes Limited
Padiham Full-time
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Nursing Home Manager – Palace House Nursing Home

Pay: £30 per hour
Hours: 40–50 hours per week

Salary Range: £62,400\.00 t0 £78,000\.00
Start Date: Immediate / as soon as possible

Payment via self employed

Palace House Nursing Home is seeking an experienced and highly capable Nursing Home Manager to lead the home through a period of improvement and turnaround.

This is a hands\-on role for someone who understands nursing home operations, CQC expectations, compliance, clinical governance, staff management and quality improvement. The successful candidate must be confident working in a challenging environment and have proven experience improving services that require urgent operational and regulatory support.

The role would suit a strong, practical and resilient manager who can take control quickly, support the team, improve standards and drive the home towards a safe, compliant and well\-led service.

Key Responsibilities

The Nursing Home Manager will be responsible for:

  • Leading the day\-to\-day management of the nursing home

  • Driving improvement across care quality, compliance, staffing and clinical standards

  • Supporting the home to move from a challenging position towards improved CQC outcomes

  • Managing nurses, carers, senior staff and department leads

  • Ensuring safe medication management and strong clinical oversight

  • Reviewing care plans, risk assessments, incidents, accidents and safeguarding matters

  • Improving documentation, audits, governance and action plans

  • Supporting staff through supervision, coaching and performance management

  • Ensuring residents receive safe, dignified and person\-centred care

  • Working closely with the provider, consultants and wider senior team

  • Building positive relationships with residents, families, professionals and commissioners

  • Taking ownership of improvement plans and ensuring actions are completed quickly
Essential Requirements

Applicants must have:

  • Previous experience managing a nursing home

  • Strong turnaround experience within a care home or nursing home setting

  • Excellent understanding of CQC requirements and inspection standards

  • Strong clinical knowledge and confidence managing nursing care

  • Experience dealing with safeguarding, complaints, audits and compliance issues

  • Ability to lead under pressure and make firm decisions

  • Strong staff leadership and communication skills

  • Experience improving poor practice and embedding better systems

  • Right to work in England

  • Flexibility to work 40–50 hours per week
A nursing qualification would be strongly preferred, but we will also consider exceptional managers with strong nursing home turnaround experience.

Pay: From £30\.00 per hour

Application question(s):

  • Please explain your experience on turning around a nursing home

  • Please let us know when you can start
Work Location: In person

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