Project Manager
We Care Group
We Care Group is an award-winning care provider with a long-standing reputation for providing outstanding care to residents across the North West and Yorkshire regions. Our vision is to deliver the best possible person-centred care to all of our residents so that they can feel, safe, happy and secure – we want our homes to be their homes.
About the role
Job Overview
An extraordinary opportunity awaits you at We Care Group as a Projects Manager. This role empowers you to shape the business of our older people’s care homes and be a driving force in our journey.
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Healthcare Projects Manager to join our business across our regions in NW and Yorkshire (involving travel across our regions). This crucial role involves managing projects and growing our service offerings, with a focus on complex care. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the delivery of new business into our healthcare facilities. This position presents an exciting opportunity to play a key role in our strategic growth.
This is an exciting role where we welcome people with all levels of experience, but applicants must be a self-starter, able to converse with people at all levels, understand data, and be willing to manage various projects throughout the organisation. Success in healthcare project management and business development is essential,. You will collaborate with all functions to uphold high standards and deliver exceptional experiences for residents and families.
Key Tasks
The Projects Manager will support our operations team to win and retain existing local authority and CCG/ICB health and social care contracts. Undertake options assessments to develop location, or site-specific strategies to drive the use of vacant units.
To manage the formulation and delivery, review, and implementation of strategies whilst working collaboratively with key areas of our business People, Quality and Performance to ensure projects are completed to a high standard.
Contribute to the achievement of the company’s Procurement Strategy by managing key ongoing projects as required such as energy-saving capex investment programmes and water usage reduction initiatives.
Support the company’s Sustainability and ESG agenda though the delivery of mandatory ESG disclosures and projects.
On both fronts, create value by identifying and delivering activities to reduce costs, deliver operational improvements and drive innovation.
What you will bring to the role:
The ideal individual will be a strong leader who can clearly communicate a vision, provide direction and motivate others.
Commercial and financial acumen.
Knowledge of CQC regulatory frameworks.
Experience of driving improvements to enable efficiency.
Experience of delivering change.
Track record of success in professional area.
Our Value-Based Personal Qualities
Working Together
Involve our residents, family, external agencies & colleagues.
Speak up when things go wrong.
Respect and Dignity
Understand person-centered care and can demonstrate treating people as individuals and respecting choices.
Promoting independence and encouraging appropriate risk-taking.
Everybody Counts
Ensuring no one is discriminated against or excluded.
Understand human rights and impact on care delivery.
Facilitating people to ‘speak up’ about concerns and acting upon them.
Commitment to Quality of Care
Striving for quality in everything we do recognising and understanding what quality in care means for people within our homes.
Being accepting about criticism and focusing on improvement.
Being open to new opportunities for learning and identifying the limits of skills and knowledge.
Compassion
Treating people with kindness.
Understanding the importance of empathy in all areas of employment.
Understanding the values of others and always providing a caring service.
Improving Lives
Focus on how things could be done better and sharing ideas.
Understanding of wellbeing and what is important to our residents.
Improving outcomes for people.
Ensuring appropriate services are provided for our residents.
Benefits
We offer the following benefits:
Annual Bonus
Employer Contributory Pension of 3%
Employee Assistance Programme
Rewards Platform offering cashback incentive to several retailers
Company Events (such as Care Awards)
Employee Competitions with Love2Shop Vouchers
Buddy System (£200)
Employee of the Month (£100)
Refer a Friend (£150)
Free On-Site Parking.
We Care Group
We Care Group is an award-winning specialist care provider with a long-standing reputation for providing outstanding person-centred care to residents across the North and Northwest of England.
We treat all of our residents as individuals. We care about their unique needs as well as their likes and dislikes, hobbies and past times. We make sure every one of our residents is provided with a completely personalised care plan; giving them dignity, choice and independence in a home from home environment. Our reputation is built on more than 15 years of experience in care and we work hard to make sure that all of our homes provide a safe, homely and happy setting for residents – we want our homes to be their homes. This also means that all of our 30 homes are completely unique, designed to meet the individual needs of our residents and make the most of the home environment and its surroundings. Each home has a dedicated team delivering round-the-clock care to meet the varying and often complex needs of our residents. We continually invest in our homes and this, as well as our rigorous quality and safety standards, enables us to ensure our homes meet our exceptionally high standards and deliver the best support and care to residents.
As a family run business, we treat our people like they deserve to be treated; with dignity, compassion and respect. The principles of equality and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do and we are committed to creating a workplace community where everyone is treated fairly and which is representative of the people that we support. We work hard to create a caring and welcoming environment for our residents based on our core values of privacy, independence, dignity and choice. We do the same for our people; nurturing their talents and celebrating their uniqueness to create a diverse, inclusive workplace where there are opportunities for everyone to grow and thrive. We want our people to be themselves; bringing their best self to work so that they can provide the best care. That’s why we have a dedicated training course in equality and inclusion for our teams and operate a fair and open recruitment process. We also offer competitive rates of pay, flexible working hours, free uniforms and a range of benefits. And we want you to be part of our future, helping us to grow as a family and put our residents and team members at the heart of everything we do.
Our benefits
We Care Group is a family of people passionate about delivering the very best care. As well as caring for our residents, we care for our teams. We invest in their learning and development, support them in their career progression and put their health and wellbeing at the heart of our approach. And we want our people to love what they do. So in addition to ongoing training and support, we offer savings on everyday expenditure to all our home teams through the online platform, Staff Treats; the leading employee benefits and discounts provider in the UK. Each month team members will have access to discounts at over 3,000 brands such as Vue, Apple, M&S, Zara and Starbucks plus savings in dining, movies, vacations, technology and groceries as well as e-vouchers and cashback. All team members have the opportunity to receive monthly and annual performance-related bonuses and we also provide free uniform and DBS checks. But we don’t stop there. We think our people are the best at what they do and we celebrate this through our monthly recognition scheme and our annual celebratory recognition event.
Vacation, Paid time off
Retirement plan and/or pension
Flexible schedule
Employee development programs
Free parking
Referral bonus
Open office
Company retreats
Competitive salary
Long service recognition
Perks Card
Wellbeing Scheme
Shopping Cashback
Social Opportunities
Employee of the Month
Employee Recognition Scheme
Project Manager
We Care Group is an award-winning specialist care provider with a long-standing reputation for providing outstanding person-centred care to residents across the North and Northwest of England.