About this role
Job summary We are seeking an experienced Deputy Manager Residential Care to join our leadership team on a 12-month fixed-term contract, supporting two residential care homes on our Betty and Asher Loftus Campus in Friern Barnet. Working closely with the Registered Manager, you will provide visible leadership across both homes, helping to deliver safe, high-quality, person-centred care for over 100 residents. This dual-home role combines operational management, team leadership, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance, ensuring consistent standards across both services. You will support and develop colleagues, oversee the day-to-day running of the homes, and help drive continuous improvement while creating positive experiences for residents, families, and staff. This is a full-time position working 39 hours per week, including weekends, evenings, and participation in the on-call rota (with time off in lieu).
Main duties of the job This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced care leader to join Jewish Care as a Deputy Manager Residential Care, working across two residential homes within our Betty and Asher Loftus Campus. You will support the Registered Manager in leading multidisciplinary teams, ensuring excellent standards of care, regulatory compliance, and operational performance across both services. The role includes coaching and developing colleagues, overseeing care quality, supporting admissions, rota management, safeguarding, audits, and preparing for CQC inspections. You will also deputise for the Registered Manager when required, ensuring continuity of leadership and service delivery. We are looking for someone with experience in residential care leadership, strong knowledge of CQC standards and dementia care, excellent communication and organisational skills, and a passion for delivering exceptional person-centred care.
About us Jewish Care is the largest health and social care charity serving the Jewish community in London and the South East. Every week, our services support around 12,000 people through residential care, nursing care, retirement living, housing with care, community support, mental health services, and wellbeing programmes. Our residential care homes provide safe, welcoming environments where older people receive compassionate, person-centred care that promotes dignity, independence, and quality of life. Guided by our values of Excellence, Integrity, Innovation, Compassion, and Inclusiveness, we are committed to supporting meaningful lives while investing in our people, developing future leaders, and continuously improving the services we provide to residents and their families.
Job description Job responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Deputy Manager Residential Care to join our leadership team in a dual-home role across two residential care homes on our Betty and Asher Loftus Campus in Friern Barnet. This is an exciting opportunity to support the leadership and operational management of two well-established residential services, helping to deliver outstanding, person-centred care while leading and developing high-performing teams.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated care professional to step into a senior leadership position where you will help shape high-quality, person-centred care across two established residential homes.
You will work closely with the Registered Manager to provide visible, compassionate leadership, ensuring consistency, strong team support, and outstanding outcomes for residents across both services.
This post is fixed term for 12 months.
Hours: 39 per week (includes weekends, evenings and on-call duties with TOIL)
About the Service This role provides operational leadership across two residential care homes located on our Betty and Asher Loftus Campus, with responsibility for a combined total of over 100 residents. The homes provide high-quality residential and dementia care within a supportive, person-centred environment, promoting dignity, independence and wellbeing.
Working across both services, the Deputy Manager will play a key role in ensuring consistent standards of care, supporting and developing teams, embedding best practice, and driving continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a collaborative campus approach, fostering shared learning and delivering outstanding outcomes for residents, families and colleagues.
About the Role The Deputy Manager plays a key leadership role supporting the Registered Manager in the operational delivery across 2 of our residential care homes based on our Betty and Asher Loftus Campus.
This is a dual-home leadership role, requiring the ability to lead across two distinct services while ensuring consistently high standards of care, compliance and culture. You will provide visible leadership across both homes, support teams on a day-to-day basis, and deputise for the Registered Manager when required.
The role is central to ensuring residents experience safe, personalised and high-quality care, and that teams are well supported, developed and empowered.
Key Responsibilities Leadership & People Management
Provide visible leadership across both homes, ensuring consistency of standards and approach Support Care Managers and Team Leaders with supervision, coaching and performance management Promote a positive, inclusive and values-led culture Support recruitment, induction, rota planning, absence management and workforce deployment Ensure safe staffing levels are maintained across both services Resident Care & Quality
Oversee delivery of high-quality, person-centred care across both homes Ensure care plans, risk assessments and documentation are accurate and up to date Monitor care quality through audits, observation and feedback Drive continuous improvement and share best practice across sites Support preparation for CQC inspections and regulatory compliance Operational Management (Dual Site)
Ensure smooth day-to-day running of both residential care homes. Support admissions, transitions, occupancy and pre-admission assessments Ensure a consistent resident and family experience across both homes Maintain effective communication between sites and teams Attend internal and external stakeholder meetings as required Compliance, Safeguarding & Risk
Promote a strong safeguarding culture across both homes Ensure compliance with legislation, policies and procedures Support incident management, complaints and investigations Ensure learning is embedded into practice across both services Support night visits and wider operational assurance activity Health, Safety & Environment
Ensure safe, clean and well-maintained environments across both homes Monitor health & safety, fire safety and environmental compliance Work collaboratively with support services including maintenance and housekeeping Financial & Resource Management
Support effective staffing budgets and rota ef
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details Employer name Jewish Care
Address
Friern Barnet
N11 3ND
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://careers.jewishcare.org/ (Opens in a new tab)