Registered Manager

Overview

In this role, you oversee the day-to-day running of a 4-bed EBD children’s home, ensuring safe, child-centred and therapeutic care. You lead a residential care team, drive regulatory compliance, safeguarding, and quality improvement, and work closely with social care partners to secure positive outcomes for young people. You’ll shape a high-performing, values-led service with strong leadership and measurable impact on education, health, wellbeing and preparation for adulthood. This is a chance to influence practice at scale within a supportive leadership structure.

Pay / Benefits

• £60,000–£63,000 salary
• leadership of a 4-bed home
• professional development and leadership training
• ongoing senior leadership support
• future progression opportunities
• meaningful, measurable impact on young people

Responsibilities

• Provide effective leadership and management to the residential care team
• Ensure compliance with Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, Quality Standards, Ofsted, and Statement of Purpose
• Create a stable, child-centred environment where children feel safe
• Maintain safeguarding arrangements and respond to safeguarding concerns
• Lead care planning, risk assessment, and placement matching
• Center care delivery on children’s views and individual needs
• Drive positive outcomes across education, health, wellbeing, independence, and family relations
• Oversee staffing, rotas, on-call, safer recruitment, induction, supervision, and training
• Manage Regulation 44 visits and Regulation 45 Quality of Care Reviews
• Monitor quality indicators, incidents, safeguarding, and outcomes for continuous improvement
• Maintain accurate records and regulatory reporting within timescales
• Build relationships with social workers, placing authorities, families, schools, health professionals, police, and Ofsted
• Manage budget, resources, health and safety, premises, and risks

Key requirements

• Two years’ experience in children’s residential care within the last five years
• At least one year supervising or managing staff in a care environment
• Experience as Registered Manager, Deputy Manager, or senior leader in children’s residential care
• Knowledge of Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, Quality Standards, and Ofsted requirements
• Strong safeguarding knowledge (child protection, missing-from-care, safeguarding partners)
• Experience with placement matching, care planning, risk management, QA, and service improvement
• Ability to produce high-quality Regulation 45 reports and regulatory notifications
• Excellent communication, organisational, and leadership skills
• Full UK driving licence
• Experience with safer recruitment, supervision, appraisals, and performance management

• compassionate leadership
• resilience
• accountability
• Regulation 44 and Regulation 45 experience
• care planning and risk assessment
• safeguarding and safeguarding procedures

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