Deputy Manager

Avery Healthcare is seeking a dedicated and experienced Deputy Manager to join their award-winning team at Aldridge Care Home. This role involves supporting the General Manager to ensure the care home operates effectively and provides a safe, caring, and stimulating environment for residents and their visitors, while meeting professional and statutory standards.

As the Deputy Manager, your focus will be on providing inspirational leadership and management to the staff team, ensuring medication policies and procedures are adhered to, monitoring the wellbeing of each resident, and completing necessary audits and reports. You will also attend weekly clinical meetings and monitor clinical risk areas in the home.

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes. They are passionate about creating meaningful experiences for their residents and employees, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes.

Your focus as Care Home Deputy Manager will be to support the General Manager to operate a compliant and effective person‑centred care home which provides a safe, caring and stimulating environment for residents and their visitors, whilst meeting stringent professional and statutory standards and commercial performance targets.

• Providing ongoing inspirational leadership and management to the staff team.
• Ensuring medication policies and procedures are adhered to and reviewing medication and administration.
• Monitoring the wellbeing of each resident and being aware of any change impacting on care plans.
• Completing monthly audits, quality indicator reports and any other report as required.
• Attending weekly clinical meetings and monitoring clinical risk areas in the home.

To be successful, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful and accountable in all that you do.

• Minimum two years experience working in a similar care environment in a management position.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing and competency in IT systems.
• Adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

• A DBS Disclosure check, the cost of which will be met by Avery Healthcare.
• Proof of eligibility to work in the UK.

This advert may be withdrawn prior to the advertised deadline depending on the volume of applications received and business needs.

To be successful in this role, you must have a minimum of two years' experience working in a similar care environment, in a management position. You should possess excellent leadership and management skills, the ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing, and be competent in using IT systems. Flexibility and adaptability to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice are also essential.