Home Manager

Home Manager Opportunity | Guthrie House Care Home, Edinburgh
£70,000 per annum + 40% Annual Bonus + Private Medical Insurance

You have already proven that you can manage a care home. The opportunity at Guthrie House is to show that you can transform one.

Some Home Manager roles are about protecting an established success. This one is different. Guthrie House needs an accomplished nurse leader who can take a home with genuine potential, build confidence and consistency, and turn improvement into something residents, families and colleagues can see and feel.

The challenge is real, and we will not disguise it. The latest Care Inspectorate inspection graded the home as weak in wellbeing and leadership and identified eight requirements. Important improvement work is already under way and, by the time the new Home Manager joins, the immediate requirements are expected to have been addressed and the grades improved. The longer-term opportunity is to make that progress permanent.

This is not about arriving alone with an impossible brief. It is about taking the lead at the right moment, with a capable team forming around you and the full backing of a growing care group that knows what excellent care looks like.

• £70,000 per annum
• Opportunity to earn up to 40% of salary through our annual bonus scheme, measured across the calendar year
• Private medical insurance
• Generous annual leave entitlement

Guthrie House is an 88-bed nursing and dementia care home in Liberton, Edinburgh. Beneath the recent regulatory position is a service with strong foundations: many committed and long-serving colleague, a compassionate care team and an established clinical and unit-management structure.

We have also recently appointed a talented and ambitious Deputy Manager with an exceptionally bright future in the care sector. Together with the clinical team and Unit Managers, the core leadership team is building well. The next Home Manager will inherit people with ability and commitment; the opportunity is to unite them behind one clear standard and one shared direction.

Fourteen beds are currently available, with an average weekly fee of approximately £1,118. Quality must come first, but as confidence and reputation grow, there is a meaningful commercial opportunity to rebuild occupancy and create a strong, sustainable home.

Turnaround is demanding work, but it should never be lonely work. The successful Home Manager will report to a highly regarded Regional Director and work closely with two experienced Regional Support Managers who understand the service and the improvement journey ahead.

Beyond the region, Guthrie House will have visible support from experienced operational, clinical and quality colleagues. This is not support promised from a distance. It is a team around the home, bringing oversight, expertise and practical help while giving the Home Manager the authority to lead.

The first priority will be to ensure the improvements already under way are embedded and sustained. Clinical practice, care planning, infection prevention, staffing oversight and quality assurance must become consistently strong, not simply compliant for the next inspection.

From there, success will be seen in a confident leadership team, a positive and accountable culture, improved retention, lower agency use and trusted relationships with residents, relatives, the Care Inspectorate and HSCP partners.

Commercial recovery will follow quality. The goal is to strengthen the home's reputation, grow occupancy responsibly and create a service known across

Edinburgh for excellent care, strong leadership and a team people want to join.

The reward is bigger…