Registered Care Home Manager
Exemplar Health Care
Fryston, CastlefordView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
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Care home: Wheldale Heights - Castleford
Contract type: Full Time, 40 hours per week (Monday - Friday)
Rate: Competitive salary-dependent on experience
This is an exciting opportunity to work for a forward-thinking and growing provider. Join us as our new Home Manager at Wheldale Heights, Castleford.
This role offers you the opportunity to shape your own service and team, and really make a difference to people's lives in a purpose built, state of the art home.
We have innovative digital systems to support you in all aspects of running your home, so you can spend less time doing paperwork and more time with your team and the people you support.
For Managers wishing to develop and grow, our training is second to none. We have a range of in-house leadership and management development programmes to support your career development.
Located on Wheldon Road in Ferry Fryston, Wheldale Heights has 24 bedrooms across two small, purpose-built units, creating a homely and supportive environment that's more responsive to individual needs.
Wheldale Heights is split into two units, the Lynx Unit and the Orion Unit. The Lynx Unit is a male only unit, providing care for complex mental health needs arising from brain injury or neurological diagnosis, such as acquired brain injury or dementia. The Orion Unit provides care for complex mental health needs linked to the early to mid-stage of a neurological diagnosis such as Huntingdon's disease.
We are thrilled to share that Wheldale Heights achieved a Good rated CQC as of April 2026! Creating an ideal environment for a new Home Manager to lead an engaged and passionate team, as the home continues to strive for outstanding care!
As a Home Manager with Exemplar Health Care, you won't just manage your home, you'll be the heartbeat of everything that happens there.
You'll be given a great deal of autonomy and will lead by example, driving your team and pushing for continuous improvement daily. You'll provide person-centred and quality driven care to ensure that you make every day better for the people who live and work in your home.
This is both an inward and outward focused position, demanding attention to multiple factors, including but not limited to:
- quality initiatives and improvement
- team leadership and management
- recruitment and colleague development
- referral management and occupancy
- data collection, analysis and interpretation
- financial management
- customer relationships and marketing to ensure business sustainability and success.
Above all, you're someone who identifies with our Exemplar Health Care values of fun, integrity, responsiveness, success and teamwork.
You must also have a first-level nursing registration with a valid Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) PIN.
As this is a leadership role, you should have a minimum of three years management experience, ideally in a complex care setting. The role is also ideal for an experienced Deputy Manager looking for the next step in their career.
- a thorough understanding of nursing care best practice, sector specific and employer legislation and governance frameworks
- great communication skills, able to build relationships with local commissioners and professionals
- the ability to inspire, lead and manage a team
- excellent time management skills, able to manage conflicting priorities and meet deadlines
- an excellent range of clinical, business, digital and operational skills.
- excellent supervision, peer support, learning opportunities and career prospects
- retail and lifestyle reward discounts
- excellent bonus scheme upon meeting KPIs
- excellent pension plan
- Bupa health care cover
- electric car salary sacrifice scheme
- life assurance
- paid access to the RCNi Learning platform
- 24/7 counselling and support
- Blue Light Card eligibility.
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First seen
30 September 2026
Last checked
3 October 2026
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