Sanitas is a leading healthcare and wellness company in Spain, providing a wide range of services including health insurance, hospitals, dental clinics, and elderly care homes. Founded in 1954 and now part of the international Bupa Group, it operates a vast network of medical centers and employs over 11,000 professionals across the country. The company is a dominant player in the Spanish private healthcare sector, known for its digital health innovation and comprehensive care models.

With its headquarters in Madrid and a massive footprint across every major Spanish city, Sanitas offers diverse opportunities for international professionals, particularly in medical, dental, and digital technology roles. While clinical roles require Spanish certification and language proficiency, the company's digital and corporate divisions frequently seek international talent for data science, AI, and project management positions. Sanitas is recognized for its commitment to diversity and its role as a key employer for those looking to build a career in the European healthcare industry.

Founded in 1954 by a group of Spanish doctors, Sanitas grew to become the leading private healthcare provider in Spain. In 1989, it became part of the British healthcare group Bupa, allowing it to expand its services and international reach while maintaining its strong Spanish identity.

For international professionals

Part of the Bupa Group, providing access to a global network of healthcare expertise and international mobility opportunities.
A pioneer in digital health in Spain, offering advanced telemedicine services and digital insurance products.
Operates four major hospitals, over 200 dental clinics, and more than 40 nursing homes across the Spanish territory.
Regularly hires for technical roles in Data Science and AI to support its ongoing digital transformation initiatives.
Clinical roles typically require the homologation of foreign degrees and professional registration in Spain.

Residence Director - Sanitas Mayores (Mojados, Valladolid)

Sanitas

This job was originally posted in Spanish and automatically translated to English. You'll most likely need Spanish to apply.

Job Description

What do we offer?

📑Contract type: Permanent

🧍♂️Working day and Schedule: Full-time and split shift, with the flexibility inherent to a management position and responsibility over a 24/7 operational center

🏢 Workplace: Elderly Care Residence Valladolid (Nacional 601 km 167 mojados, Urb. Los Arcos, Ctra. Madrid, 0, 47250 Mojados, Valladolid). Parking available at the center.

Additionally, you will have...

🙋♂️Onboarding process oriented to facilitate your integration and knowledge of the Sanitas Mayores management model.

💙Support from a large company, with corporate support teams in care areas, customer experience, People, quality, operations, and management, and you will be part of a network of directors in your area and group, with whom to share best practices, challenges, and learning.

💡You will participate in cross-functional projects, training, and continuous improvement.

🩺Sanitas medical insurance after one year of seniority with a permanent contract. This includes in-person and virtual medical consultations, as well as psychology, physiotherapy, nutrition sessions, and other wellness services.

😀 Employee Wellness Program. We take care of you through activities and sessions that will help you be healthier both physically and emotionally.
🤸♀️ Wellhub. With access to a wide variety of gyms, mindfulness sessions, nutrition, online therapy, and sleep management.

⭐Discount program and exclusive offers for employees only.

What will you do in the team?

Your mission will be to comprehensively lead the residence, ensuring the balance between care quality, the experience of residents and families, team management, occupancy, operational efficiency, and compliance with Sanitas Mayores procedures.

Your main responsibilities will be:

💙 Lead the center's team, consisting of approximately 80 professionals, promoting stability, commitment, collaboration, and a good working atmosphere. Coordinate with a multidisciplinary team composed of social work, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, medicine, psychology, administration, maintenance technicians, geriatric caregivers, and kitchen and laundry staff.

💙 Guarantee safe, personalized, and quality care for residents, ensuring compliance with the Sanitas Mayores care and assistance model. Lead the relationship with residents and families, generating trust, anticipating needs, managing sensitive situations, and ensuring a close and professional experience.

💙 Ensure compliance with the center's main indicators: occupancy, NPS, team stability, operating expenses, quality, and management results.

💙 Lead the local positioning of the center and the fulfillment of occupancy objectives, coordinating with social work and support areas to ensure good management of opportunities, families, and prescribers.

💙 Manage the center's resources efficiently, ensuring the control of operating expenses, suppliers, internal processes, and budget compliance.

💙 Guarantee the application of policies, procedures, quality standards, and Sanitas Mayores management systems, leading audits, improvement plans, and the follow-up of non-conformities.

💙 Participate in corporate initiatives, improvement projects, training, and the implementation of new tools or work models.

What do you need?

🎓Education: Diploma, Degree or Bachelor's, and a Master's in Management of Social Service Centers or equivalent qualifying training.

🌱Experience: At least 5 years of experience in management positions, center management, services, operations, and leading large and multidisciplinary teams.

Experience in the socio-sanitary, residential, healthcare, personal services sector, operations, or environments with high organizational complexity will be especially valued.

👉Key competencies:

▶ We are looking for a person with strong leadership, communication skills, business vision, and result-orientation, with sensitivity towards residents and families, as well as the ability to manage diverse teams and the judgment to make decisions within the framework of the company's policies and procedures.

We need a director with management autonomy, but also with the ability to work aligned with the Sanitas Mayores model and in coordination with the corporate support areas.

Why join Sanitas Mayores?

Because you will have the opportunity to manage a large, stable center with high occupancy, leading a wide and multidisciplinary team, with a direct impact on the lives of residents, families, and professionals.

You will not be alone: you will have the support of a leading company, a network of directors, specialized corporate teams, and a consolidated management model.

If you want to take on a management challenge with real impact, combining leadership, management, care quality, and result-orientation, this could be a great opportunity.

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¿Qué ofrecemos?

📑Tipo de contrato: Indefinido

🧍♂️Jornada laboral y Horario: Jornada Completa y turno partido, con la flexibilidad propia de una posición de dirección y responsabilidad sobre un centro operativo 24/07

🏢 Lugar de trabajo: Residencia de Mayores Valladolid (Nacional 601 km 167 mojados, Urb. Los Arcos, Ctra. Madrid, 0, 47250 Mojados, Valladolid). Aparcamiento disponible en el centro.

Además, contarás con...

🙋♂️Proceso de acogida orientado a facilitar tu incorporación y conocimiento del modelo de gestión de Sanitas Mayores.

💙Respaldo de una gran compañía, con equipos corporativos de apoyo en áreas asistenciales, experiencia de cliente, People, calidad, operaciones y gestión y formarás parte de una red de directores/as de tu zona y de tu grupo, con quienes compartir buenas prácticas, retos y aprendizajes.

💡Participarás en proyectos transversales, formación y mejora continua.

🩺Seguro médico Sanitas al año de antigüedad con contrato indefinido. En el que se incluye consultas médicas presenciales y virtuales, además de sesiones de psicología, fisioterapia, nutrición y otros servicios de bienestar.

😀 Programa de Bienestar para empleados. Te cuidamos a través de actividades y sesiones que te ayudarán a estar más sano tanto física como emocionalmente.
🤸♀️ Wellhub. Con acceso a una gran variedad de gimnasios, sesiones de mindfulness, nutrición, terapia online y gestión del sueño.

⭐Programa de descuentos y ofertas exclusivas sólo para empleados.

¿Qué harás en el equipo?

Tu misión será liderar de forma integral la residencia, asegurando el equilibrio entre calidad asistencial, experiencia de residentes y familias, gestión de equipos, ocupación, eficiencia operativa y cumplimiento de los procedimientos de Sanitas Mayores.

Tus principales responsabilidades serán:

💙 Liderar el equipo del centro, formado por aproximadamente 80 profesionales, impulsando la estabilidad, el compromiso, la colaboración y el buen clima laboral. Coordinarte con un equipo multidisciplinar compuesto por trabajo social, fisioterapia, terapia ocupacional, enfermería, medicina, psicología, administración, técnico/a de mantenimiento, gerocultores/as, personal de cocina y lavandería.

💙 Garantizar una atención segura, personalizada y de calidad para los residentes, asegurando el cumplimiento del modelo asistencial y de cuidados de Sanitas Mayores. Liderar la relación con residentes y familias, generando confianza, anticipando necesidades, gestionando situaciones sensibles y asegurando una experiencia cercana y profesional.

💙 Asegurar el cumplimiento de los principales indicadores del centro: ocupación, NPS, estabilidad del equipo, gastos operativos, calidad y resultados de gestión.

💙 Liderar el posicionamiento local del centro y el cumplimiento de los objetivos de ocupación, coordinándose con trabajo social y con las áreas de apoyo para asegurar una buena gestión de oportunidades, familias y prescriptores.

💙 Gestionar los recursos del centro de forma eficiente, asegurando el control de gastos operativos, proveedores, procesos internos y cumplimiento presupuestario.

💙 Garantizar la aplicación de políticas, procedimientos, estándares de calidad y sistemas de gestión de Sanitas Mayores, liderando auditorías, planes de mejora y seguimiento de no conformidades.

💙 Participar en iniciativas corporativas, proyectos de mejora, formación e implantación de nuevas herramientas o modelos de trabajo.

¿Qué necesitas?

🎓Formación: Diplomatura, Grado o Licenciatura, y Máster en Dirección de Centros de Servicios Sociales o formación habilitante equivalente.

🌱Experiencia: Al menos 5 años de experiencia en posiciones de dirección, gestión de centros, servicios, operaciones y en el liderazgo de equipos numerosos y multidisciplinares.

Valoraremos especialmente experiencia en el sector sociosanitario, residencial, sanitario, servicios a personas, operaciones o entornos con alta complejidad organizativa.

👉Competencias clave:

▶ Buscamos una persona con liderazgo sólido, capacidad de comunicación, visión de negocio y con orientación a resultados, con sensibilidad hacia residentes y familias, así como capacidad para gestionar equipos diversos y criterio para tomar decisiones dentro del marco de políticas y procedimientos de la compañía.

Necesitamos un/a director/a con autonomía de gestión, pero también con capacidad para trabajar alineado/a con el modelo de Sanitas Mayores y en coordinación con las áreas corporativas de apoyo.

¿Por qué incorporarte a Sanitas Mayores?

Porque tendrás la oportunidad de gestionar un centro grande, estable y con alta ocupación, liderando un equipo amplio y multidisciplinar, con impacto directo en la vida de residentes, familias y profesionales.