General Manager in Beaconsfield

Avery Healthcare is one of the UK's largest providers of luxury elderly care homes, offering exceptional care across their growing network of over 100 homes. They are looking for a warm, enthusiastic, and dedicated individual to join their award‑winning team as a General Manager at their Beaconsfield Heights Care Home.

Main duties of the job:

As the General Manager, your focus will be to lead and inspire a team to deliver excellent person‑centred quality care to residents in a safe, caring, and stimulating environment, while meeting regulatory requirements, professional and statutory standards, and business performance targets. You will be responsible for the ongoing recruitment, retention, and development of staff, acting as a focal point for contact with residents, their relatives, and healthcare professionals, and ensuring safe staffing levels and cost management.

About us:

Avery Healthcare is a leading provider of luxury elderly care homes in the UK, committed to creating meaningful lives together for their residents and employees. They believe the later years of life should be as enriching as any other, and they are passionate about offering exceptional care and support across their growing network of over 100 homes.

Job responsibilities:

• Ensuring the consistent delivery of high‑quality care, person‑centred care and ensuring residents receive care based on best practice.
• Being responsible for the ongoing recruitment, retention, and development of staff within the Home.
• Acting as a focal point for contact with residents, their relatives, and visitors, as well as health and social care professionals involved in residents’ well‑being.
• Ensuring safe staffing levels are reviewed and maintained in accordance with both occupancy and dependency.
• Providing ongoing inspirational leadership and management to the staff team.
• Ensuring costs are well managed and maintained within budgetary controls, by reviewing regularly and monitoring stock.

About you:

To be successful in your application, you will live our values of caring, supportive, honest, respectful, and accountable in all that you do. Our ideal candidate must:

• Have a minimum of four years of experience in a similar care environment.
• Have Leadership and Management Level 5 or equivalent.
• Possess excellent leadership and management skills.
• Have the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing, and be competent in IT.
• Be adaptive and flexible to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

Required additional information:

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

Qualifications:

• Minimum of four years of experience in a similar care environment.
• Leadership and Management Level 5 or equivalent qualification.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Competence in IT.
• Flexibility to cover a range of responsibilities at short notice.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.