There’s been a lot in the headlines about care homes recently, for two reasons. The first is that Southern Cross, a major operator of care homes, is in bad financial straits after falling foul of a risky business deal carried out some years before. As a result, they may need to shut a large number of properties. You might be forgiven for deciding that care home manager jobs will be decreasing in the near future, along with other similar positions (such as nursing home manager jobs) as the sector suffers in difficult economic times. However, whatever issues Southern Cross are having are not a good reflection of the state of the sector in general. Home manager jobs will become increasingly important as time goes on, for one simple reason: demand is going up.
The government has described Southern Cross’s difficulties as a ‘commercial sector problem’ and will not go in to intervene directly – although they state they are ‘monitoring’ the situation. Discussions with landlords to reduce rent payments are in hand, and it may well be that the company passes on a proportion of its homes to other businesses. However, in the long run care homes, and the vacancies that go with them, are not under threat. Those that operate under dubious business models will get into trouble, but that is true of any business, especially in a downturn. The second news story explains why this is only a short-term problem. The OECD reported that demographic changes mean that the UK will spend a significantly bigger proportion of its GDP (perhaps twice as much or more in some reports) on elderly care by 2050.
That means more homes, and thus more care home manager jobs. A different model might be used in the future – again thanks to shocking recent news stories. nursing home manager jobs could be required for smaller operations, rather than the large institutions currently favoured. Instead, places housing perhaps only a couple of dozen people may become more normal, offering smaller-scale and more local help to those who need it. Home manager jobs will be more common, though they may be broader in scope, too. But whatever the landscape of vacancies in the future, the numbers speak for themselves. The country is undergoing significant changes in terms of population distribution, and that will have a huge impact on the delivery of care over the coming years and decades.
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