Registered Manager
Location: Harlow
Salary: £16.80 per hour
Hours: 40 hours per week
Registered Manager – Shaftesbury Keefield Close
Lead with excellence. Make a difference every day.
Are you a passionate, values-led leader who believes that exceptional care starts with exceptional leadership?
We are looking for an inspiring and experienced Registered Manager to lead Keefield Close. Set on the outskirts of Harlow, Essex, we provide person-centred, responsive, residential care for ten adults with profound physical and intellectual disabilities.
We provide care for a wide range of needs including spastic quadriplegia and Down’s Syndrome.
The home is spread over two spacious, adjoining and well-equipped bungalows. There is a lovely sensory garden at the back, and a separate building with facilities such as a sensory room. Our accessible and welcoming environment provides modern facilities with 24/7 support.
About the role
As Registered Manager, you will provide strong, visible leadership across the service, creating a positive culture where residents receive high-quality care and staff feel supported, valued and empowered to do their best work.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Lead with purpose – inspire, support and develop a skilled team to deliver safe, compassionate and consistently high-quality care.
- Champion clinical excellence – promote robust clinical governance, evidence-based practice and high standards of nursing care for people with complex needs.
- Promote person-centred care and independence – ensure people's needs, wishes, abilities and aspirations shape their care and support, with a focus on meaningful outcomes and quality of life.
- Strengthen multidisciplinary working – bring together nursing, neuro-physiotherapy and enabling support to deliver coordinated, individualised care.
- Develop a positive team culture – create an environment where staff feel valued, confident in their practice and supported to learn and develop.
- Drive quality and improvement – maintain regulatory compliance, lead effective quality assurance and foster a culture of learning, reflection and continuous improvement.
- Shape the future of the service – work collaboratively with residents, families, health professionals and colleagues across Shaftesbury to develop practice and improve outcomes.
About you
You will be a leader with the insight, management skills and personal values to lead a specialist service supporting people with complex needs.
You will bring:
- A strong understanding of clinical governance, safe nursing practice, quality assurance and effective risk management.
- The ability to lead, motivate and develop a multidisciplinary team, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous learning.
- A visible, approachable and person-centred leadership style, with the confidence to build positive relationships with residents, families, colleagues and external professionals.
Above all, you will share our belief that people should be supported to live the lives they choose, achieve their potential and be treated with dignity, respect and compassion.
Benefits of working at Shaftesbury
At Shaftesbury, we know that our people are our greatest asset. We’re proud to have some of the best and most committed staff in the sector – and we want to attract more people like you to work with Shaftesbury. We’re now offering even more great benefits to reward the work of our wonderful staff in adult care:
- Great CQC, great reward. If your service is rated good or equivalent by CQCin all domains, all staff will receive a £30 gift voucher. If rated outstanding, all staff will receive a £50 gift voucher.
- We want to reward staff in a range of ways for their hard work. You can be nominated for a recognition letter from a member of the Executive Leadership Team and you may also be nominated to receive a gift voucher up to £50 for going above and beyond within your role.
- Excellent training package provided for all staff.
- Generous Annual Leave entitlement of 25 days + 8 days bank holiday for the first 5 years. Increasing to 28 days + 8 days bank holiday after 5 years.
- Access to our employee assistance program.
Shaftesbury is the disability charity that’s committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them.
What makes life liveable is never down to just one thing - it’s the sum of many things. From friendship to fun; from companionship to community; from a great chat to a challenge overcome, it all adds up – to Shaftesbury.
Through a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services we promote inclusion and wellbeing for all. Together, we work to see people take part, contribute and be valued. We put the elements in place that all add up to connected lives.
Shaftesbury is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable children and adults and expects all employees to share this commitment. All offers of employment are subject to an enhanced DBS/Access NI check.
Shaftesbury is committed to the Disability Confident Scheme and to equal opportunities therefore we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.
To Apply
If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Shaftesbury Group, please proceed through the following link to be redirected to our website to complete your application.
https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/shaftesbury/Job/JobDetail?JobId=6579
