Overview
Deputy Care Home Manager – Teddington, TW11 0AQ, United Kingdom
We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Deputy Home Manager to support the Home Manager at Homemead Care Home in Teddington, Richmond, ensuring the highest standards of care and service delivery. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a committed team, champion dementia care, and help create a safe, person-centred environment where our residents can thrive.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deputise for the Home Manager in their absence and support the day-to-day running of the home.
- Lead on service delivery, continuous improvement, and best practice in dementia care.
- Support and supervise Care Team Leaders, providing guidance, training, and performance management.
- Promote person-centred care, maximising choice, dignity, and control for residents.
- Maintain compliance with regulatory standards (CQC, Health and Social Care Act) and complete audits, reports, and notifications as required.
- Work collaboratively with residents, families, and external professionals (GPs, social workers, district nurses).
- Oversee resident activities and ensure clinical equipment is safe and staff are competent in its use.
- Contribute to service improvement plans and embed the Aster Way and Skills for Care Code of Conduct.
About you
We are looking for a candidate with a care qualification (Level 4 Diploma or equivalent) and supervisory experience in a relevant care setting, with a strong background in person-centred care planning and care management.
You’ll have excellent communication and leadership skills, the ability to work on your own initiative, manage priorities under pressure, and a commitment to delivering high-quality care and embedding best practice. Ideally, you will hold a recognised dementia qualification and have experience of multidisciplinary service delivery, electronic care and medication management systems, end-of-life care, and working with residents with physical, sensory, or complex needs.
You must be flexible to work evenings, nights, weekends, and public holidays as required, able to travel across Aster Group locations, and committed to equal opportunities and promoting diversity.
About us
C&C is a forward-thinking and innovative charitable provider of housing, care, and bespoke services exclusively for older people in London. We have 90 years’ experience of retirement home design and living in London. We are very proud of the ‘family’ feel of our Care Homes.
You will work alongside an amazing team that care passionately about our residents. We work hard to keep our residents engaged, active and enjoying their lives. Whether you would like to support our residents directly with their physical care and personal hygiene needs or instead help us in maintaining high levels of cleanliness across our homes, you can make a real contribution.
We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:
- A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
- We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
- Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
- Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
- Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
- We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives.
We cannot wait to hear from you! Apply as soon as possible with your most updated CV.
The successful applicant will need to complete or have an enhanced DBS check.
All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.
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