Delivery and Operations Regional Occupancy Manager

Regional Occupancy Manager

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Job Description:

Job Title: Regional Occupancy Manager
Company: Bupa
Location: Hybrid – WFH & Weekly site visits (Area covered will be Kent, Essex & London)
Type:
Permanent – 37.5 hours per week
Salary: £45,000 per annum plus company car & an annual 10% management bonus & up to 20% occupancy bonus (Paid 5% per quarter)

About Bupa: At Bupa, we rely on the skills, energy, and commitment of our people to provide excellent service to our customers and each other. Our approach to safety aligns with public health and regulatory guidance, ensuring the well-being of our people, residents, customers, and visitors.

Role Overview: As a Regional Occupancy Manager, you will guide the strategic vision and oversee the public sector occupancy in our care homes. Your responsibilities include managing occupancy rates through proficient stakeholder management and engagement. You will take the lead in all bidding and tender processes for your region as well as overseeing existing block contracts and managing all renewals

Typical Responsibilities:

  • Identify, develop, and maintain business relationships with internal and external customers building partnerships with funder decision makers/budget holders to ensure that Bupa is the “go to” partner in key regions.
  • Host and lead regular meetings with operational and strategic colleagues to review occupancy requirements and opportunities and formulate strategic plans to ensure successful delivery of objectives.
  • Identify commissioning arrangements with growth possibilities, produce robust business plans that unlock and leverage benefit.
  • Maintain a general understanding of commissioned areas of need including an appreciation of the types of conditions that our Care Homes support, how they impact the home environment and the impact they have on occupancy and safe practices.
  • Lead and manage the bid function and process, managing the bid production plan for each submission and ensuring all proposal submissions are of a high standard and delivered on time.

Qualifications and Skills:

  • Previous Sales experience in the health care sector
  • Experience of collaborating with Local Authorities, Integrated Care Boards and NHS Trust Board level stakeholders and developing, bidding, and winning formal tenders.
  • Experience of driving commissioning agendas and influencing service-based pathway design.
  • Knowledge of Local Authority and Integrated Care Board (ICB) structures.
  • Knowledge of the commissioning process and the relationship between commissioners and service providers.

We value our colleagues and offer benefits to support physical and mental well-being:

  • 25 days holiday (pro-rata based on contracted days)
  • Company Car
  • 10% Management bonus
  • Bupa health insurance
  • Enhanced pension plan and life insurance
  • Onsite gyms or local discounts
  • Various family-friendly benefits

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Delivery and Operations

Locations:

Home Based c/o Kirkstall Forge

Regional Occupancy Manager

Location
Leeds
Location
Full time
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Our
purpose

Bupa’s purpose is helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We do this by providing a broad range of healthcare services, support and advice to people throughout their lives. People are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we make health happen.

Our
values

Every company needs an ethos, and we're no different. Through good days and challeging times, we always work with our values in mind. These are: Brave - Make new possibilities happen. Caring - Act with empathy and respect. Responsible - Own your decisions and actions.

We don't have shareholders at Bupa, which means we're free to invest our profits where they matter: our patients, our facilities, our research, and you. 

As a healthcare provider, we have a duty to do the right thing. By our customers, our people and our partners. The Bupa Code holds us to this duty. It's our promise to protect, care for, and build trust with everyone who relies on us.

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Free to be
you

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. 

You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.Free
to be you.

Back in September 2018, we made a pledge. That we'd do whatever we could to make Bupa a diverse, kind and inclusive place to work.

Everyone deserves a positive working environment. Everyone deserves to have their voice heard. Everyone deserves freedom from bullying, harassment and discrimination.

Regional Occupancy Manager

Location
Leeds
Location
Full time
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