Deputy Manager - Derwent Care Home
5 days ago
Saint Leonards-on-Sea
Job Title: Deputy Manager – Derwent Care Home Location: St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex Job Type: Permanent Full-time 42 hours p/w Salary: £35,000.00 Are you an experienced leader in a care home environment? Have you already held responsibility for running shifts, leading teams, and making decisions under pressure — while keeping care calm, kind, and person-centred? If so — this role is for you. This is a hands-on, floor-based Deputy Manager role, where you will be included in daily care hours while also coordinating the shift and holding clear authority. It is not a step-up role and not suitable for someone new to leadership. About the Role You’ll work directly alongside residents and staff, leading from the floor while maintaining oversight, standards, and calm leadership throughout the day. You’ll be supported by a Registered Manager working across two homes and will play a key role in keeping care consistent, kind, and well-organised. Key Responsibilities: • Lead from the floor, working directly alongside residents and care staff, • Be included in daily care staffing numbers while coordinating the shift, • Act as the senior decision-maker on shift when required, • Allocate tasks, prioritise care, and respond calmly to pressure, • Ensure safe, dignified, person-centred care at all times, • Integrate meaningful activity into everyday care, not as an add-on, • Support staff with clear direction, coaching, and role modelling, overseeing inductions, training, supervisions and rota management, • Respond appropriately to incidents, safeguarding concerns, and risk, • Maintain accurate care records and daily standards, • Liaise with external professionals (GPs, Social Workers, SALT, Dieticians, etc.) This Role Is For You If You Are: • An experienced Deputy Manager or equivalent care leader, • Confident running shifts and directing staff, • Comfortable holding boundaries in complex team environments, • Calm, emotionally mature, and steady under pressure Experience & Requirements Essential Proven Deputy Manager experience leading shifts or teams in a care home Dementia care experience Confidence making decisions and managing staff on shift Desirable QCF Level 3 or above in Health & Social Care Why Join Us • Salary of £35,000 per annum, • Company Pension, • A genuinely values-led organisation, • Clear leadership structure and support, • A role where judgement, presence, and kindness matter Apply via Reed with your CV and short cover letter.