Registered Home Manager in Southampton

Pinar Care is seeking an experienced and compassionate Registered Home Manager to lead The Oaks, our 10-bed nursing home supporting adults with learning disabilities and associated needs.

This is an opportunity to take full ownership of a small, person-centred service where you can be visible, build meaningful relationships and make a genuine difference to the lives of the people we support.

As Registered Home Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day leadership, quality, safety, staffing, regulatory compliance and financial performance of the home.

You will create an open and positive culture in which people are listened to, staff feel supported and high-quality care is delivered consistently.

The role

Your responsibilities will include

• Providing visible, compassionate and values-led leadership across the home.
• Maintaining registration with the Care Quality Commission and ensuring compliance with the CQC Fundamental Standards.
• Ensuring people receive individualised support that promotes independence, dignity, choice, communication and inclusion.
• Maintaining high-quality care plans, health action plans, communication profiles and risk assessments.
• Acting as the service’s safeguarding lead and responding promptly to concerns.
• Ensuring the Mental Capacity Act, best-interest decision-making and least-restrictive practice are applied correctly.
• Promoting positive behaviour support and compassionate responses to behaviours of distress.
• Maintaining safe medication-management and auditing arrangements.
• Recruiting, developing, supervising and managing the performance of the staff team.
• Managing staffing rotas, training, supervision, competency and workforce requirements.
• Leading quality audits, service-improvement plans and preparation for CQC assessments.
• Managing incidents, complaints, safeguarding investigations and statutory notifications.
• Building effective relationships with families, advocates, commissioners, social workers and healthcare professionals.
• Leading admissions, pre-admission assessments and transitions into and out of the service.
• Managing the home within its agreed budget and monitoring staffing, agency and operational costs.
• Ensuring the premises remain safe, clean, comfortable and well maintained.
• Participating in the management on-call rota.

About you

To be successful, you will need

• A Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care or an equivalent management qualification, or the ability and willingness to complete it within an agreed timescale.
• The ability to obtain and maintain CQC registration as the Registered Manager.
• Substantial experience of working in adult social care.
• Experience supporting adults with learning disabilities and associated needs.
• Previous experience as a Registered Manager, Deputy Manager or in a comparable adult social-care management role.
• Experience leading, supervising and developing staff teams.
• Strong knowledge of CQC requirements, safeguarding, the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
• Experience managing care plans, risk assessments, medication systems, quality audits and service improvements.
• Experience managing staffing levels, rotas and service budgets.
• The ability to build positive relationships with the people supported, families, commissioners and multidisciplinary professionals.
• Strong leadership, communication, organisational and decision-making skills.

Previous experience as a CQC Registered Manager within a learning-disability service would be particularly advantageous.

Experience supporting autistic people or individuals with complex communication, health or behavioural needs would also be welcomed.

Why join Pinar Care?

This is an opportunity to lead and shape a small service where high-quality, person-centred support is at the heart of everything we do.

You will have the autonomy to develop the home, strengthen the staff team and create an environment in which people are supported to achieve positive outcomes and live fulfilling lives.

Safeguarding is central to our work. Appointment will be subject to appropriate pre-employment checks, including an enhanced DBS check.

To apply, please submit your CV outlining your experience of managing adult social-care services and supporting adults with learning disabilities.