# Care Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for YOURLIFEYOURWAY.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** YOURLIFEYOURWAY
- **Location:** Your Life Your Way Central Office
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Manager
- **Salary:** £19946.00
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Part-time
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-30T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-08T08:21:38.996Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/L0091-26-0122
- **Application URL:** https://careers.ylyw.org.uk/Apply/WUxd64ebZVyBBcHBsaWNhdGlvbiBGb3JtfDEwMnw5MjkxNTR8MXx8RmFsc2V8MjIwMnw1MTY0NjI0fDA%3d?i=dvaTNCHaTCI%3d
- **Employer website:** https://ylyw.org.uk/

## Job Content

### Job summary

We are looking for a Care Manager who can support the delivery of high quality, person-centred care across the Northwest. This role involves overseeing care packages, supporting clients and staff, and ensuring services are delivered in line with company policies, best practice, and current care regulations.

The position is part-time, working 22.5 hours per week. The salary is £33,244.69 pro rata, which is £19,946.81 for 22.5 hours per week. The role also includes a care allowance of £300 per month pro rata, which is £150.00 per month for 22.5 hours per week. The successful applicant will be responsible for supporting the Registered Care Manager with day-to-day care responsibilities, maintaining high standards of service delivery, and ensuring clients remain at the centre of their care and support.

The successful applicant will be supporting adults, children and families with a range of care and support needs, including complex care, person-centred planning, safeguarding, risk assessments, and positive behaviour support where required.

### Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will: Manage local authority funded care packages within assigned areas. Complete care assessments, risk assessments and person-centred plans with clear outcomes. Support the onboarding and development of Personal Assistants. Carry out supervisions, team meetings and observations with Personal Assistants and Team Leaders. Work closely with clients, families, social workers, health professionals and other relevant organisations. Promote safeguarding, dignity, privacy, independence, choice and positive outcomes for clients. Support rota planning, care planning, quality monitoring and regulatory compliance. Participate in the on-call rota to provide assistance to clients and staff outside office hours.

The successful applicant must: Have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a health and social care environment. Hold, or be willing to undertake, a Level 5 leadership and management qualification in health and social care or equivalent.

### About us

Your Life Your Way is committed to providing person-centred services that place client needs at the heart of care planning, promote open communication, provide trained staff, and protect each client’s rights to privacy, safety, dignity, respect, independence and choice.

### Details

- Date posted: 08 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Other
- Salary: £19,946 a year £150 car allowance per month
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time
- Reference number: KG1649976HarCM
- Job locations: Hartford, Hartford, Cheshire, CW8 2AB, United Kingdom

### Job responsibilities

Your Life Your Way are looking for a compassionate, motivated and experienced Care Manager to join our team, supporting adults and children with both social and complex health needs. This role is available on a part-time basis of 22.5 hours per week, with travel primarily local to the geographical areas of service delivery.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a well-established, person-centred organisation committed to providing high-quality care and support that protects clients’ rights to privacy, safety, dignity, respect, independence and choice.

As Care Manager, you will support the Registered Care Manager with day-to-day care responsibilities, taking individual management responsibility for local authority funded care packages in your assigned area and ensuring care assessments, risk assessments and person-centred plans are completed to a high standard and within required timescales.

You will help ensure the highest possible standard of care is delivered in line with company policies, current care regulations, CQC requirements and person-centred best practice. The role involves working closely with clients, families, representatives, Personal Assistants, social workers, health professionals and other relevant organisations to ensure each client’s needs, rights and choices remain central to their care.

- Line manage, supervise and support Personal Assistants, including observations, team meetings and return-to-work discussions where required.
- Create and maintain care plans, risk assessments and person-centred records in line with organisational policies and procedures.
- Support onboarding by helping develop the right staff team to meet each client’s care and support needs.
- Formulate initial rotas before passing them to the Scheduling Department.
- Promote open communication with clients, families, representatives and professionals, ensuring feedback and complaints are captured appropriately.
- Monitor care delivery, safeguarding, whistleblowing, budgets, KPIs and regulatory requirements, including participation in inspections.
- Use internal IT systems accurately and take part in a 24-hour on-call rota to support clients and staff outside office hours.

We are looking for someone who is organised, confident and committed to delivering excellent care. You will be able to work independently, manage competing priorities and build positive working relationships with clients, families, Personal Assistants and professionals.

- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a health and social care environment.
- Hold, or be willing to undertake, a Level 5 Leadership and Management qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent.
- Experience of writing and completing person-centred plans, care assessments and risk assessments.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, whistleblowing, medication administration and regulatory audit requirements.
- Supervisory experience with the ability to develop staff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, planning, organisational and analytical skills.
- Valid DBS, or willingness to obtain one.
- Full driving licence and access to a vehicle.
- Eligibility to work in the UK.

You will be part of a friendly, supportive and appreciative team dedicated to delivering a high standard of care and support in the community. This is a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same, with opportunities to develop your management, care planning and mentoring skills while making a meaningful difference to people’s lives.

Working hours are 22.5 hours per week. The salary is £19,946.81 for 22.5 hours per week, equivalent to £33,244.69 pro rata. A care allowance of £150.00 per month applies for 22.5 hours per week, equivalent to £300 per month pro rata.

The closing date for applicants is Sunday 9th August 2026, with interviews scheduled for the week commencing 17th August 2026.

## Person Specification

### Health and Social Care

**Essential**

- Minimum of 2 years experience in a health and social care environment.
- Hold, or be willing to undertake, a Level 5 Leadership and Management qualification in Health and Social Care or equivalent.
- Full driving licence and access to a vehicle.

**Desirable**

- Experience of writing and completing person-centred plans, care assessments and risk assessments.
- Knowledge of safeguarding, whistleblowing, medication administration and regulatory audit requirements.
- Supervisory experience with the ability to develop staff.

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