Home Manager

Management - Cherrybrook Care Home

Contract: Full Time

Salary: Up to £95,000 DOE + up to 40% annual bonus Per Annum

Shift Type: Days

Contracted hours: 40

Home Manager | Cherrybrook Care Home | Bradford
Up to £95,000 per annum + 40% bonus + Private Medical Insurance + Pension

This Is Not A ‘Steady State’ Home Manager Role.
This Is a Turnaround. A Reputation Rebuild. A Legacy Opportunity.

Cherrybrook Care Home in Bradford is at a defining moment.

A large, dual-site, 120-bed specialist service supporting adults living with complex mental health needs, dementia, nursing needs and complex physical care and right now, it needs a leader.

Occupancy sits at 16%.
CQC is Requires Improvement. (Historically acquired)
Management turnover has impacted morale.

We opened in July 2024 with ambition. The reality has been tougher.

Now we’re looking for someone who doesn’t shy away from challenge, someone who sees this and thinks:

“Good. Let’s build.”

If you are a turnaround specialist.
If you know how to steady a team, win back trust and deliver compliance.
If you want to look back in two years and say, ‘That was my transformation’

Keep reading.

Your Contract

• Up to £95,000 per annum
• 40% annual bonus
• Private medical insurance
• Pension
• 5.6 weeks annual leave

The Opportunity: Two Years to Transform Cherrybrook Care Home

This is a full operational and commercial leadership role across both Cherrybrook sites (92-bed main home and 28-bed unit).

Over the next 24 months, your mission will be clear:

• Achieve a strong CQC rating.
• Stabilise and inspire a team who need consistent, confident leadership.
• Build occupancy sustainably and responsibly.
• Re-establish Cherrybrook as a respected specialist service in Bradford.

You will not be doing this alone. You’ll work alongside a Regional Director, CRM team and Quality support function. Although the culture, the standards, the energy? That starts with you.

This is about turning a service around the right way:

• With governance.
• With compassion.
• With commercial discipline.
• With pride.

The Leader We’re Searching For

We need more than experience. We need presence.

You are a visible, floor-walking leader.
You don’t manage from an office.
You set standards by how you show up every day.

You understand what management instability does to morale and you know how to rebuild it. You’re strong, but empathetic. Structured, but human. You hold people accountable, but you lift them as you do it.

You have -

• Sound experience as a Home Manager, ideally in complex care, mental health or multi-site services.
• Delivered measurable CQC improvements and strengthened governance frameworks.
• Grown occupancy through relationship-building with commissioners and families.
• Managed budgets confidently and commercially.

You may be RGN, RMN or RNLD qualified, preferred but not essential, and a Level 5 in Leadership would be advantageous.

Most importantly, you are motivated by meaningful impact, not just maintenance.

Let’s Be Honest

This role will test you.

There are systems to strengthen.
A culture to rebuild.
A reputation to restore.

But there is also something powerful here

• A blank page.
• A supportive wider group.
• The chance to build something you can truly call your own.

If you want a comfortable, quiet role, this isn’t it.
If you want to lead something that matters, this could define your career.

About Willinbrook Healthcare - Part of Care Concern Group

Willinbrook Healthcare is the specialist division of Care Concern Group. In just four years, the specialist portfolio has grown to 24 services, through acquisition and commissioning, forming part of a wider UK portfolio of over 140 care homes.

We are ambitious and we are growing - That growth creates opportunity for you.

As Cherrybrook transforms, so can your career. Our size means progression is real; Regional roles, specialist commissioning opportunities, turnaround projects. If you deliver here, you won’t go unnoticed.

Our values are simple : Trust. Respect. Passion. Kindness. Inclusivity.
But we are not naive. We know values mean nothing without leadership that brings them to life.

But the real reward? Building a service from challenge to success.

Ready to Make This the Role You’re Most Proud Of?
In two years’ time, we want you to stand in a thriving, high-performing Cherrybrook and say - ‘This is what strong leadership does’.

If you are ready to lead with courage, clarity and compassion, we want to hear from you.

Apply now. Let’s build something incredible together.