Barchester Healthcare

Regional Director

The closing date is 30 March 2026

Job summary

As a Regional Director within the Central Division at Barchester, you'll be responsible for providing support, guidance, and direction to a team of General Managers (GMs). You'll be tasked with achieving quality, customer, financial, and growth targets within the support functions, which will include overseeing targets for each GM's home. This is a demanding but rewarding role, where you'll have the scope to make changes that have a real impact on the staff and residents, ensuring every day is the best it can be.

Main duties of the job

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include reviewing commercial growth, checking compliance with financial policies, and developing commercial partnerships with third-party organizations, such as the NHS. You'll also be responsible for promoting a culture of sharing best practice and collaborative working, supporting the GM's development, and maintaining a talent pipeline to ensure strong leadership across the organization.

About us

Barchester Healthcare is a leading provider of residential care, nursing care, and specialist services in the UK. The organization is committed to delivering the highest quality of care and support to its residents, and the Regional Director role is integral to achieving this goal.

Details

Date posted

29 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Salary expectations will be discussed at interview stage.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

1457361452

Job locations

Barchester Healthcare

Knaresborough

HG5 8LS


Job description

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs Regional Director within the Central Division at Barchester, you'll be responsible for providing support, guidance and direction to a team of General Managers (GMs). We'll look to you to achieve quality, customer, financial and growth targets within our support functions, which will include overseeing targets for each GM's home. Day-to-day, that means you could be reviewing commercial growth, checking our homes are compliant with financial policies, or developing commercial partnerships with third party organisations, such as the NHS.

At the heart of these changes, you'll promote our culture of sharing best practice and collaborative working with your strong, inclusive leadership style. You can also expect to support our GM's development and maintain a talent pipeline that will ensure strong leadership across our organisation.

This is a demanding, but incredibly rewarding role at Barchester. As a Regional Director, you'll have the scope to make changes that have a real impact on our staff and residents ensuring every day is the best it can be.

ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Regional Director, you'll have extensive experience in managing people, finances and resources within a heavily regulated, healthcare environment. In turn, you'll be confident in your ability to operate all services to achieve Good' or Outstanding' ratings with the CQC, as well as improve customer satisfaction. It's also important that you can effectively manage feedback and accordingly implement Quality Improvement Specialist action plans. You'll be a personable self-starter with excellent communication skills, real attention-to-detail and an innovative approach to problem-solving.

REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as a competitive salary, we can offer you impressive benefits, including a mobile, laptop, and free training and development. You'll have plenty of opportunity to grow your career in a large organisation with a warm and supportive environment.

If you'd like to use your leadership and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is an empowering and rewarding place to be.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

ABOUT THE ROLEAs Regional Director within the Central Division at Barchester, you'll be responsible for providing support, guidance and direction to a team of General Managers (GMs). We'll look to you to achieve quality, customer, financial and growth targets within our support functions, which will include overseeing targets for each GM's home. Day-to-day, that means you could be reviewing commercial growth, checking our homes are compliant with financial policies, or developing commercial partnerships with third party organisations, such as the NHS.

At the heart of these changes, you'll promote our culture of sharing best practice and collaborative working with your strong, inclusive leadership style. You can also expect to support our GM's development and maintain a talent pipeline that will ensure strong leadership across our organisation.

This is a demanding, but incredibly rewarding role at Barchester. As a Regional Director, you'll have the scope to make changes that have a real impact on our staff and residents ensuring every day is the best it can be.

ABOUT YOUTo join us as a Regional Director, you'll have extensive experience in managing people, finances and resources within a heavily regulated, healthcare environment. In turn, you'll be confident in your ability to operate all services to achieve Good' or Outstanding' ratings with the CQC, as well as improve customer satisfaction. It's also important that you can effectively manage feedback and accordingly implement Quality Improvement Specialist action plans. You'll be a personable self-starter with excellent communication skills, real attention-to-detail and an innovative approach to problem-solving.

REWARDS PACKAGEAs well as a competitive salary, we can offer you impressive benefits, including a mobile, laptop, and free training and development. You'll have plenty of opportunity to grow your career in a large organisation with a warm and supportive environment.

If you'd like to use your leadership and people skills in an organisation that provides the quality care you'd expect for your loved ones, this is an empowering and rewarding place to be.

7766

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • To join Barchester as a Regional Director, you'll need extensive experience in managing people, finances, and resources within a heavily regulated, healthcare environment. You'll be confident in your ability to operate all services to achieve 'Good' or 'Outstanding' ratings with the CQC, as well as improve customer satisfaction. Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and an innovative approach to problem-solving are also essential.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • To join Barchester as a Regional Director, you'll need extensive experience in managing people, finances, and resources within a heavily regulated, healthcare environment. You'll be confident in your ability to operate all services to achieve 'Good' or 'Outstanding' ratings with the CQC, as well as improve customer satisfaction. Strong communication skills, attention to detail, and an innovative approach to problem-solving are also essential.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Barchester Healthcare

Address

Barchester Healthcare

Knaresborough

HG5 8LS


Employer's website

https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Barchester Healthcare

Address

Barchester Healthcare

Knaresborough

HG5 8LS


Employer's website

https://www.barchester.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Recruitment Team

Barchester Healthcare

Recruitment@barchester.com

Details

Date posted

29 January 2026

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Salary expectations will be discussed at interview stage.

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

1457361452

Job locations

Barchester Healthcare

Knaresborough

HG5 8LS


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