As a Service Manager at our Balmedie care home, you will lead the service day to day, ensuring safe, consistent and high-quality care for older people while driving standards, stability and performance across the team.
This is a senior leadership role where your decisions directly impact the quality of care, team culture and overall success of the service.
You will take full responsibility for the leadership and operation of the service, including:
Leading, managing and developing your team to deliver safe, high-quality care
Taking ownership of recruitment, supervision, performance management and workforce planning
Managing budgets, staffing levels and resources with a strong focus on efficiency and quality
Ensuring full compliance with regulatory requirements, policies and best practice
Setting clear expectations and maintaining consistent standards across the service
Building effective relationships with families, professionals and external partners
Working closely with senior leaders to drive improvement and service development
You are an experienced Service Manager or a confident Deputy ready to step up, with a clear track record of leading teams within a care home environment.
Management experience within a care home setting is essential for this role.
You understand the realities of running a care service, including managing staffing pressures, maintaining standards and leading through challenge. You are organised, accountable and able to make decisions that support both residents and staff.
You are confident using digital systems and Microsoft Office, and able to manage budgets, staffing and operational priorities effectively. You lead from the front, set clear expectations and support your team to deliver consistently.
Health cash plan and employee assistance programme
Ongoing training and development opportunities
Support to achieve and maintain required qualifications
If you have the experience to lead a care home service and are ready to take full accountability for quality, performance and team leadership, we want to hear from you. We also offer you a range of benefits that you would expect from an organisation that support others.
Firstly, there is access to a wide range of exclusive retail and leisure discounts through our rewards scheme and the Blue Light Discount card. We also ensure that your future and that of your loved ones is secured with a generous contributory pension plan and death in service benefit. Balancing work and family are made easier with our suite of enhanced family friendly policies and your health and wellness are prioritised with access to our health cash plan, giving you cash back for a wide range of health treatments. We even have access to a care concierge service to assist you with life's challenges, providing invaluable support when you need it most.
But we also know that your training and development is important to you, and as well as a contribution to your professional membership fees, we are keen to support you in making the right steps to learn, grow and develop in ways that are right for you.
CrossReach has been at the forefront of high quality social care for over 150 years, providing loving care to people of all ages and supporting them to live life to the full whatever their circumstances. During that time, we have worked hard to understand the needs of the people who turn to us for help and with them have been at the forefront of pioneering services which have literally changed thousands of lives for the better.
Today we are one of the largest social care providers in Scotland, with experience across a broad range of services. We are still growing, learning, and improving, thanks to the incredible people we have the privilege to support, and all those who support us. We are part of the Church of Scotland and aim to provide social care services and specialist resources in Christ's name to further the caring work of the Church to people in challenging circumstances.
As we do our work in Christ's name the job you have applied for requires you to have a Christian faith and be able to work within and uphold our Christian Ethos. We have a legal obligation to ensure that we do not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK. This permission is without exception granted by UK Visas and Immigrations. Deadline: Posts close at midnight on the indicated date.Application Assistance: For help completing an application on Jobtrain, please click here -