Rest Home Manager

**Full Time**:

- **Application Closes 31 May 2025**:

- **Wellington - Lower Hutt**:

- **Manager**

**Rest Home Manager - Lower Hutt**
- **Leadership role delivering positive ageing services for our Elders**:

- **Contribute to the on-gong development of our team**:

- **Enjoy building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders.**

**Mō mātou - About us**

Woburn Home is Enliven Central largest home (rest home, hospital and secure dementia care), but it doesn’t feel that way - it’s very neighbourly. That’s partly due to the engaging frontline teams, resident & whānau involvement and a building design that is open planned and feels like a home. Adjacent is the Woburn Apartments (independent retirement living) and Woburn Housing (one bedroom rental units).

**Mō te tūranga** - **About the role**

We have an exciting opportunity to manage our Woburn Home in Lower Hutt. The Home Manager has overall responsibility for leading the management and development of our services for the Enliven home residents and associated community. This is a challenging but rewarding operational role that will require you to maintain focus while balancing multiple priorities.

Key tasks include:

- Leadership and oversight of the teams who deliver evidenced based care planning, daily operations support and recreation activities
- Financial accountability for the home, ensuring it remain within budgets and staffing ratios.
- People management - in particular retention and recruitment, roster management, training
- Liaison with internal and external stakeholders, responding to feedback, compliments and complaints
- Deals with enquiries in relation to accepting new residents and understanding their personal needs
- Ensures communication and support plans include our Elders, their family/whanau
- Ensures the Home maintains health and safety practices in accordance with policy and protocols
- Participation in regular reporting and management meetings both within the Home and with the widen Enliven Management team.

Whilst responsible for our Woburn Home you will be part of a wider team of Enliven managers who work collaboratively, offering peer support and guidance to each other to provide a senior management environment, where you can collectively lead and support cultural change, draw on your combined coaching skills and share the benefits of a collaborative approach.

**Mō koe** - **About You**

You will be motivated by adding value in a role, where you can stretch your skills and experience to a variety of areas to have impact for your team and the residents living in their home. You will be excited by the challenge of a multi-dimensional position that involves working with many groups of people, both inside and outside the home and in particular, you will want them to feel like they are part of the enliven family.

You will have:

- Excellent communication and a quality improvement focus
- Nursing or health science degree, business management degree or post graduate degree (preferred but not essential)
- Proven leadership ability, able to lead staff through change and grow the team to get the best out of everyone, at any level
- Resilience, positivity and enthusiasm to respond well to both the good and the more difficult times
- Understanding of government funding & planning and operational budget management experience

**What’s in it for you?**

As a learning organisation, you will be provided with on-going training and support in your role. We will assist you to grow and build on your skills and experience, so that you thrive and achieve your full potential.
- Support to attend professional networking events, i.e: conferences & seminars to upskill and continue to grow in your role
- On-going professional development and a collaborative and supportive team
- We offer staff discounts with major NZ Retailers, discounted health insurance and access to free employee assistance programmes
- Opportunity to grow and progress your career within a large organisation that cares about your future

As an organisation we have been delivering services to our communities for over 100 years. We are a well established not for profit organisation and we are committed to leading the aged care sector's capability to deliver the very best quality person centred support to our Elders. Join us now so you can experience a future with us that offers the chance to be part of that

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