Care Quality and Projects Manager - Home Based, UK
| Posting date: | 21 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £72,302 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 December 2025 |
| Location: | Home Based, UK, NO CODE |
| Company: | Housing 21 |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 1155735 |
Summary
Hours: 35 hours per week / 70 hours over two weeks (nine-day fortnight)
We are looking to recruit to the role of Care Quality & Projects Manager to join our Extra Care Senior Leadership team, reporting to the Director of Extra Care here at Housing 21.
The role will help shape and lead on a portfolio of improvement projects across Extra Care’s regulated care services and the successful candidate will also act as specialist subject matter expert on social care legislation and the Care Quality Commission’s regulatory framework.
Within the role you will partner with operational teams, leading and delivering projects and initiatives which help improve overall service delivery, including overseeing change management projects which improve the way we work across Extra Care. This involves finding opportunities to innovate and ensure the service remains current and strives towards excellent services for our residents.
Having new digitised our care management activities, you will play an important role in ensuring the services adopt this new technology as intended to maximise the benefits from it, as well as working with the IT department to represent operational teams’ requirements in the ongoing development of the system.
While the role offers flexibility with home-based work, the successful candidate will be required to attend team meetings including meetings at our Head office in Birmingham as well as some travel to our care services, as required.
Curious to know more? If you’re looking for an opportunity where you can make a real difference, with an organisation with a strong social purpose, take a look at the job description attached.
We’d love to meet you!
What we’re looking for
The essential requirements for the role include:
• Extensive knowledge and experience of working across Housing and Care services for older people in a regulated environment
• In-depth knowledge of social care regulation and legislation
• Experience in working at a senior level in an organisation of comparable scale, geography, and complexity
• Substantial experience of leading and delivering national strategies and change / innovation projects, including technological change projects
• Experienced in multi-project management and delivering across dispersed teams
• Experience in project management to deliver service improvements, benefiting both the customer and employees
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience
• Project management training or equivalent experience
Why us?
We support our employees to do what they do best, whether that’s through flexible working, learning new skills or being part of a friendly and supportive workplace culture. We also offer a great benefits package including Blue Light Card discount, holiday trade scheme, volunteer days, Occupational Sick Pay, Occupational Maternity Pay and more.
As part of our commitment to our employees and offering flexibility, we now offer a nine-day fortnight, providing employees with the opportunity to work their hours across nine days and have a three-day weekend every other week. Further details on how this works will be discussed with successful candidates upon on offer being made.
Closing date for applications: 3 December 2025 with interviews taking place on 12 December 2025
Due to the nature of this role this advert may close earlier than the closing date listed and once sufficient applications have been received. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.
We are looking to recruit to the role of Care Quality & Projects Manager to join our Extra Care Senior Leadership team, reporting to the Director of Extra Care here at Housing 21.
The role will help shape and lead on a portfolio of improvement projects across Extra Care’s regulated care services and the successful candidate will also act as specialist subject matter expert on social care legislation and the Care Quality Commission’s regulatory framework.
Within the role you will partner with operational teams, leading and delivering projects and initiatives which help improve overall service delivery, including overseeing change management projects which improve the way we work across Extra Care. This involves finding opportunities to innovate and ensure the service remains current and strives towards excellent services for our residents.
Having new digitised our care management activities, you will play an important role in ensuring the services adopt this new technology as intended to maximise the benefits from it, as well as working with the IT department to represent operational teams’ requirements in the ongoing development of the system.
While the role offers flexibility with home-based work, the successful candidate will be required to attend team meetings including meetings at our Head office in Birmingham as well as some travel to our care services, as required.
Curious to know more? If you’re looking for an opportunity where you can make a real difference, with an organisation with a strong social purpose, take a look at the job description attached.
We’d love to meet you!
What we’re looking for
The essential requirements for the role include:
• Extensive knowledge and experience of working across Housing and Care services for older people in a regulated environment
• In-depth knowledge of social care regulation and legislation
• Experience in working at a senior level in an organisation of comparable scale, geography, and complexity
• Substantial experience of leading and delivering national strategies and change / innovation projects, including technological change projects
• Experienced in multi-project management and delivering across dispersed teams
• Experience in project management to deliver service improvements, benefiting both the customer and employees
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience
• Project management training or equivalent experience
Why us?
We support our employees to do what they do best, whether that’s through flexible working, learning new skills or being part of a friendly and supportive workplace culture. We also offer a great benefits package including Blue Light Card discount, holiday trade scheme, volunteer days, Occupational Sick Pay, Occupational Maternity Pay and more.
As part of our commitment to our employees and offering flexibility, we now offer a nine-day fortnight, providing employees with the opportunity to work their hours across nine days and have a three-day weekend every other week. Further details on how this works will be discussed with successful candidates upon on offer being made.
Closing date for applications: 3 December 2025 with interviews taking place on 12 December 2025
Due to the nature of this role this advert may close earlier than the closing date listed and once sufficient applications have been received. Please apply early to avoid disappointment.