Commissioning Home Manager

Job Description:

We are delighted to be working closely with one of the leading and most luxurious care providers in Scotland. I’m looking to appoint a Commissioning Home Manager for their brand new Nursing Home based in Edinburgh, due to open in late 2024.


Role: Commissioning Home Manager 
Hours: Full time
Salary £65,000 (plus KPI Bonus OTE £90,000)

The Company
My client currently operates in excess of 10 care homes across Scotland. Their vision is to be the leading provider of truly person centred and holistic care in the UK and a driving force of care innovation. Their teams provide ‘all-around care’ by working collaboratively and creating nurturing, homely environments that empower their residents to live meaningful lives. The 60-bed home is currently under construction, and already has over 35% of the beds filled and a waiting list taking it to 50%.

Key Responsibilities
The Home Manager is responsible for ensuring a high level of clinical care and governance is provided to residents, meeting all statutory and regulatory requirements and leading the clinical team, providing strong clinical knowledge, leadership and management to ensure the highest standards are achieved in all areas of the home including relationship centred care, clinical care and dementia care.

• Staffing to focus on provision of quality care, promoting experience in person centred care in clinical and dementia areas
• Build and recruit a core staff team. The primary need is for leadership of such a large team
• Demonstrates and sets high standards of personal and professional behaviour and leads a culture of professionalism.
• Consistently puts core ethics and values into practice and promotes them in others.
• Is authentically warm, genuine, trustworthy, honest, reliable, consistent and caring in all their actions and supports this culture within the organisation.
• Maintains a personal style that gets the best out of teams across the organisation.
• Builds a service based on the combined contributions of different people.
• Takes personal charge of key issues to ensure that quality care and support is provided and fosters a culture in which people are confident in taking responsibility.
• Works across the organisation to recognise good performance and act where performance can be improved.
• Provides advocacy for their organisation. Builds decision-making processes that set out clear roles and responsibilities to facilitate effective performance improvement.

• Ideally have a nurse qualification.
• Experience of commissioning a home or proven track record of increasing occupancy. 
• Hands on manager used to managing a Nursing Home.
• The Home will have three distinct client groups residential, nursing and dementia it is essential to have a background in each discipline.
• The manager must be able to manage a large team, leadership will be key to success for the staff team and the relatives.
• To maintain and develop links to the Commissioners is essential in this area.