District Manager

Title: District Manager

Location: Regular travel across the Northeast

Contract: 37.5 hours per week | Permanent

Salary: c. £69,000 + £6,200 car allowance

Are you an experienced senior leader who understands what exceptional care looks like? As District Manager, you’ll lead a portfolio of 8 care homes across the Northeast, ensuring the delivery of outstanding care, exceptional resident experiences, and high performing services for older people.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who understands what outstanding residential care looks like and is motivated by delivering consistently high quality, compliant services.

What You’ll Do

• Lead an Established Portfolio: You’ll oversee a group of 8 care homes, ensuring the consistent delivery of outstanding care and resident experience.
• Drive Performance: Deliver district KPIs, service standards and business objectives while maintaining a strong focus on quality, compliance, and resident wellbeing.
• Care Quality & Compliance: Maintain full oversight of regulatory compliance and safeguarding, ensuring standards consistently meet and exceed expectations across all homes within your portfolio.
• Champion Resident Experience: Use resident feedback, audits and performance insights to continuously improve services, drive positive outcomes, and enhance resident satisfaction.
• Budget & Resources: Oversee financial performance, manage budgets effectively to ensure resources are used to deliver sustainable, high quality services and achieve commercial objectives.
• Inspire Your Team: Coach and develop a team of Home Managers, empowering them to lead with confidence, deliver excellence, and create outstanding environments for residents.

What You’ll Need

• Passion for delivering outstanding, person centred care and meaningful experiences to residents.
• Significant operational management experience within the care sector, with a track record of delivering commercially successful, high quality and regulatory compliant care services.
• Strong knowledge of safeguarding, regulatory compliance, and quality standards within adult social care.
• A natural leader with the ability to engage, influence and develop high-performing teams.
• Confidence in managing financial performance while maintaining an uncompromising focus on care quality and resident wellbeing.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos. Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members. We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Menopause Friendly and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.