Operations Manager Care Homes


Company:	Willing Care Recruitment Limited
Salary:	£70,000 to £80,000 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Bedford
Working pattern:	Field-based
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	5 Oct 2026
Closing date:	4 Nov 2026

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Summary

Operations Manager – Care Homes

£70,000–£80,000 per year | Bonus Scheme | Company Car | Nurse Qualified

This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced care home operator who knows how to drive quality, strengthen performance and get the best from Home Managers across multiple services.

We’re looking for a nurse-qualified Operations Manager with proven multi-site experience across nursing or care homes for older adults. You’ll oversee a portfolio of services, supporting Home Managers across quality, compliance, clinical governance, staffing and operational performance, while ensuring residents remain at the centre of decision-making.

This is a highly visible role involving regular travel between different homes and areas, so you’ll need to be comfortable spending significant time within the services you support.

Leading Across the Homes

• Provide operational and clinical oversight across a portfolio of nursing and care homes

• Support, challenge and develop Home Managers to achieve consistently high standards

• Monitor quality, compliance and clinical governance across services

• Support homes with CQC preparation, inspections and improvement plans

• Review performance and identify areas requiring additional support

• Ensure safeguarding and risk management procedures remain robust

• Monitor staffing, recruitment, retention and leadership stability

• Maintain oversight of occupancy, budgets and operational performance

• Work closely with senior leadership to implement organisational objectives

• Spend regular time within individual homes, remaining visible and accessible to leadership teams

• Promote consistently high standards of person-centred older adult and dementia care

All appointments are subject to satisfactory references, an enhanced DBS check, verification of the right to work in the UK, NMC registration checks, a driving licence check where required, and any other pre-employment checks required for the role.

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