Senior District Manager

Senior District Manager
Location: Remote with regular travel across the South of England
Contract: 37.5 hours per week | Permanent
Salary: £80,000 per annum + £6,400 car allowance

As Senior District Manager, you'll lead a portfolio of six care homes, ensuring exceptional care, strong operational performance, and outstanding resident experiences. Acting as a trusted deputy to the Director of Care Services, you'll play a key role in shaping regional strategy, supporting senior leaders, and driving continuous improvement across our services.

This is a highly influential role where you'll combine operational leadership, quality oversight and people development to ensure our homes continue to deliver the highest standards of care and support.

What you'll do

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across a portfolio of six care homes, ensuring strong performance against quality, financial, and operational objectives.
• Work closely with District Managers, Regional Support Managers and Home Managers to share best practice, strengthen performance, and build high-performing teams.
• Champion a culture of safe, high-quality, person-centred care, ensuring homes remain inspection ready and fully compliant with CQC regulations, governance requirements, and sector best practice.
• Keep residents at the heart of every decision, driving initiatives that enhance quality of life, resident satisfaction, and overall resident experience.
• Lead on complex operational matters, including safeguarding concerns, complaints, and service improvement programmes.
• Monitor budgets, occupancy, and key performance indicators, using data and insight to drive financial sustainability and operational excellence.
• Coach, develop and inspire Home Managers and leadership teams, supporting talent development, colleague engagement, recruitment, and retention.
• Support the Director of Care Services with regional priorities, service development initiatives, and strategic projects, representing the region at meetings and across the wider organisation.

What you'll bring

• Significant senior leadership experience within multi-site residential care.
• A proven track record of managing a portfolio of care homes or services and delivering strong operational performance.
• Extensive knowledge of CQC regulations, compliance, governance, safeguarding, and person-centred care, including dementia care.
• Passion for delivering outstanding resident experiences and achieving positive outcomes for older people.
• Commercial awareness, with experience managing budgets, occupancy, and performance data.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and build relationships at all levels.
• Experience leading change, driving continuous improvement and supporting services through periods of growth and transformation.
• A proactive, resilient, and values-driven leadership style, with the flexibility to travel regularly across the region.

Join us and help deliver exceptional care, operational excellence, and outstanding resident experiences across our homes.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos.  Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.