Clinical Registered Manager

Job summary

Clinical Registered Manager Shaftesbury Treetops

Colchester, Essex | 21-bed specialist nursing home

Lead with clinical excellence. Make a difference every day.

Are you a passionate, values-led nursing leader who believes that exceptional care starts with exceptional leadership?

We are looking for an inspiring and experienced Registered Manager to lead Treetops, our purpose-built, 21-bed high-dependency nursing home. We provide specialist, person-centred nursing care and support to people with complex health and care needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities and acquired brain injury.

Working alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team of nurses, a neuro-physiotherapist, team leaders and enabling support workers, you will lead a service where clinical expertise, compassionate care and a commitment to individual potential come together to make a real difference to people's lives.

At Treetops, the focus goes beyond meeting people's health and care needs. It is about recognising each person as an individual, promoting choice and independence, and supporting people to live fulfilling lives with dignity, purpose and connection.

Main duties of the job

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 us

At Shaftesbury, we believe everyone deserves a full and flourishing life. Our core values - Open, Enabling, Inclusive and Courageous guide how we work, how we support one another and how we make a difference to the people we support.

Joining Treetops offers the opportunity to lead a specialist service with a dedicated multidisciplinary team, contribute to the development of high-quality nursing care and make a meaningful difference to residents and their families.

We value our people and are committed to supporting their development, wellbeing and contribution.

Details

• Date posted: 06 October 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £56,638.40 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: B0490-26-0020
• Job locations: Coburg House, 1 Coburg Street, Gateshead, NE8 1NS, United Kingdom, Shaftesbury Treetops, 94 Victoria Gardens, Highwoods, Colchester, Essex, CO4 9YE, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Purpose of the Role As the Registered Manager, you will be responsible for the overall management and operation of the care home, ensuring the highest standards of care and compliance with all relevant legislation. You will lead and manage a team to provide safe, compassionate, and person-centred care to adults in a residential setting. Your key focus will be to ensure the wellbeing of the people we support while promoting independence, dignity, and respect. Main Duties Ensuring that we are providing good or outstanding support to all of the people we support. To take responsibility for understanding and complying with statutory and legal requirement. Ensure that the service follows Shaftesbury policy and procedures and to fully investigate if this is not the case and actively seek to embed any learning. To undertake or assign key self-assessment audits to ensure compliance with the good governance calendar. Ensure you monitor the quality of records by using sampling methods. To keep an overview on the KPIs for the service to ensure it is performing in line with Shaftesburys expectations. To act as the Local Safeguarding Lead. Ensure the rotas are monitored to ensure that we are not over or under delivering support in line with the budget. To own the management accounts and have a good working knowledge of what sits behind the account and seek to explore and resolve variances. To ensure that when care needs change they are re-assessed and new contracts are put in place to meet people needs. To undertake an annual service improvement plan to understand the status of the service and outlining its future direction of travel with guidance from the relevant director. To monitor operating systems in accordance with policies and procedures and ensure these are being audited on a regular basis. Page 1 of 5 Registered Manager Job Description & Person Specification To ensure that the service is compliant with regulatory frameworks and placing authority contract requirements. To attend local networking opportunities or to ensure we are represented by one of your team. To ensure that you implement the delivery plan for the service. To work with the Director on any key strategic project allocated to the service. To support the organisation to deliver its objectives by reach out to the wider community. Provide direct supervision to Service Delivery Leaders and Team Leaders. Provide coaching and mentoring of Service Delivery Leaders and Team Leaders. Ensure that you work in a way that supports the wellbeing of the staff team. Chair staff meetings. Identify staff training needs and plan to meet these, in conjunction with the Service Delivery Leaders and Team Leaders. Ensure staff personal development is ongoing to meet the needs of the people we support. Additional duties Promote Shaftesbury values. Undertake reports and when required. Undertake other duties as required. Undertake on call as required. Promote the organisation in a positive manner. Maintain effective communication channels with all stakeholders internal and external.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).