Care Home Manager
North Merchiston Care Home
Salary: £52, - £62,
Hours: 36 per week
We are looking for a motivated and driven individual with proven leadership skills, managing a large team of staff, a person who thrives in leading change and solving daily challenges within a highly complex yet rewarding environment.
You will have a proven track record of leading services within the health or social care environment, have knowledge of adult protection, regulations and guidance, establishing best practice in meeting needs of older people in a care service. You should be able to work flexibly and creatively within a dynamic and ambitious team. You will lead a service with high standards and ensure systems are in place for quality assurance and improvement ensuring effectiveness of the service.
The post is part of the Health and Social Care Partnership and there are both NHS and CEC job descriptions - if you meet the criteria we can employ you either under NHS or CEC terms and conditions. Please ensure you read the job description and person specification.
If you want to discuss this post or arrange a visit to the care home please get in touch with
This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act. The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.
We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we're bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.
To help achieve this, we're changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.
You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page Our Behaviours - The City of Edinburgh Council
Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.
Happy to talk flexible working.