Regional Director - Care Homes

Job Title: Regional Director – Care Homes
Location: Home based with extensive travel (Dorset, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey).
Hours: 35 hours per week (Monday – Friday) with occasional out of hours work and on call rota.
Salary: GBP64,000 per annum plus car allowance
Position Type: Permanent

About us
Friends of the Elderly is a not–for–profit charity dedicated to providing excellent care with a family feel and we have been supporting older people for over 100 years. We aspire to a society where all older people have the opportunity to live well in later life. We do this by delivering services personalised to individual needs. the charity provides care home and day care services for older people, as well as grants for older people in financial difficulty.

The role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Regional Director/Manager to join us and truly make a difference. Reporting to the Care Homes Director, your role will be to drive continuous improvement across our services through effective monitoring and proactive management of regional care home performance.

You will do this by providing leadership and line management to a team of care home managers, ensuring our care homes provide safe and effective care, tailored to each person's care and support needs and wishes, enabling residents to live fulfilled lives and engage with their communities.

We need someone that will promote and lead our care home managers in fostering a culture of collaboration, openness, and transparency, to ensure lessons are learned and best practice shared and implemented across our sites.

Working with the Care Homes Director, Regional Director, and care home managers, you will help identify and develop ways of supporting the charity's strategy and future sustainability, including potential improvements to business and operating practices.

You will be key in supporting our care homes to meet all regulatory requirements, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to enable compliance and identifying and addressing areas for improvement, continually improving safeguarding practices across the care homes.

You will uphold and embody the charity's values and promote a culture of respect, equality, diversity and inclusivity for staff, residents, families and all who have contact with Friends of the Elderly. You will also champion our wellbeing pledge, training and development of all our care home staff.

About you
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 10 years' experience of working in Health and Social Care and have managed multi–site operations (or managed a large care service) for vulnerable older people. You will be an experienced leader with the ability to manage and develop staff and services, building solid working relationships with staff along the way.

Strong understanding of care and other legislative and regulatory frameworks is essential and its practical application along with safeguarding, HR policies and procedures and Health and Safety legislation.

You will be an advocate for Friends of the Elderly, communicating and liaising with senior level representatives of health and social care organisations and local/ national government bodies; have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and be able to manage own time and workload effectively.

You'll ideally be a driver with a current driving licence and be able to travel to all of our sites with occasional overnight stays when required.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you!

Why work for us?
We are a caring organisation with a rich history and are committed to investing in our teams and their wellbeing, which is why we offer a great list of employee benefits. These include:

• Group Pension Plan, with a 6% contribution from us
• Wellbeing support through various initiatives including an employee assistance programme with manager support.
• Retail discount schemes to make your salary go further
• Health cash plans for you and your family
• Interest free travel loans and cycle to work scheme
• Long service awards, that increase with length of service
• Refer a friend to work for us and receive a GBP200 bonus
• Competitive Pay and a car allowance

Closing Date: Friday, 27th January 2023

Interested?

If you would like to find out more, please click the apply button. You will be directed to our website to complete your application for this position.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement
Friends of the Elderly strives to treat all staff equally and be a diverse and inclusive workplace, where everyone can be themselves and everyone accepts each other's differences. A charity where everyone is equal but definitely not the same!

Our ambition is to ensure equality and celebrate diversity, all working together to create an inclusive workplace, which attracts and retains the best people. People that care and can make a difference.

We value all our staff, service users, volunteers and contractors and strive to respect everyone as individuals, understand their perspectives, and provide a supported workplace so that everyone can thrive.

We are committed to listening, learning, and improving our workplace and we ask all our staff to make a personal commitment to educate themselves; and engage in conversations with colleagues, so that we can all learn and share our stories and treat everyone equally.

We encourage everyone to call out any actions or behaviours not consistent with our values, and champion the rights of all our staff.

As this role involves a regulated activity, or manages those involved in a regulated activity, the charity will apply for an enhanced DBS check with barred lists check for successful applicants, and any offer of employment will be subject to receipt of that check being satisfactory.

We would prefer all staff joining Friends of the Elderly to have received or be in the process of getting their COVID–19 vaccination. This is to support the protection of our staff, our residents and wider teams.

No agencies please.