Registered Manager, Children's Residential Service - Leeds

Registered Manager, Children's Residential Service - Leeds

Main area Registered Manager Grade Band 4b Contract Permanent: Full Time Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref RES:CRS2059.0

Site Leeds Town Leeds Salary £53,176.50 - £60,469.50 Per Annum Dependant on Skills And Experience. Salary period Yearly Closing 28/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

Registered Manager - Children's Residential Service

Leeds

Lead the launch of an innovative new specialist children's home

Care in Mind is proud to be launching an exciting new three-bedded Ofsted-registered children's residential home in Leeds, following the award of a seven-year partnership contract with Leeds City Council. This pioneering service will provide specialist, trauma-informed care for children and young people with complex mental health needs, helping them remain close to their families, schools and local communities whilst accessing expert therapeutic support.

We are looking for an exceptional Registered Manager to play a pivotal role in establishing and leading this new service from day one. This is a unique opportunity to combine the excitement of developing a new home with the support, expertise and reputation of an established specialist provider.

You will hold overall responsibility for the leadership, management and regulatory compliance of a three-bed residential home supporting children with complex mental health needs and behaviours that challenge.

You will lead an experienced staff team, ensure the home achieves the highest standards of care and quality, and work collaboratively with internal clinical teams, local authorities, schools, CAMHS and other stakeholders to ensure exceptional outcomes for children and young people.

Main duties of the job

Essential experience and qualifications:

• Current or previous experience as a Registered Manager within children’s residential care.
• At least two years’ recent experience working in children’s residential services.
• Experience managing and supervising teams within a residential setting.
• Experience working within Ofsted-regulated services.
• Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent).
• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare, or willingness to achieve this qualification (fully funded).
• Strong understanding of Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards.
• Sound knowledge of safeguarding, child protection, and legislation relating to looked-after children.

You’ll also bring:

• Outstanding leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Experience recruiting, developing and retaining talented teams.
• Confidence managing budgets, quality assurance processes and regulatory inspections.
• The ability to remain calm and effective under pressure.
• A strong commitment to staff wellbeing, professional development and reflective practice.
• A genuine passion for supporting children and young people experiencing complex mental health challenges.

Working for our organisation

What We Offer

In addition to the opportunity to lead a flagship new service, we offer an excellent benefits package including:

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with service
• Birthday leave
• Enhanced pension and sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity benefits
• Life Assurance
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Extensive learning and development opportunities
• Investors in People Silver accredited employee
• Blue Light Card discounts
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Free onsite parking and much more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Ensure competency and understanding of all staff in implementing care plans that are collaborative and have the young person at the centre of their care.

To take full responsibility for the competence and capability of the residential team, managing performance effectively.

Understand and know the residential teams’ strengths and weaknesses, offering support and guidance when necessary.

Maintain appropriate boundaries with all staff and young people/children.

Always lead by example, be honest and transparent when things are not going well and when things go well, sharing good practice.

To facilitate regular team meetings and ensure good attendance and contribution of all staff.

Creative and effective management of the staff rota, ensuring that the staffing requirements for the home are met and the service is safe.

Monitor and review overtime, making good use of the bank team to fill deficits.

To build a strong, skilled, and resilient team that feel empowered to support the young people through regular supervision and appraisal.

Be responsible for the effective recruitment of suitable and skilled employees to work within the team. To work towards the Staffing Model, ensuring the correct number of staff in each discipline.

Ensure robust staff inductions, and probationary reviews are taking place within agreed timescales and any concerns are discussed with the senior residential team and dealt with promptly.

To ensure that all internal employees are booked on mandatory and refresher training to support organisational compliance with internal and external standard requirements.

To regularly monitor teams training compliance levels for mandatory and supplementary training, proactively highlighting concerns to the Learning and Development team. Where possible to undertake problem solving to overcome barriers and challenges faced with learning and development.

To be always professional, dressing smart and using appropriate language in all environments.

To oversee the implementation of development plans for all staff.

To be a caring and thoughtful manager who is willing to support the staff team, ensuring their own wellbeing.

To manage sickness absence robustly and in a supportive manner.

To retain overall responsibility for ensuring that payroll is completed each month.

To work with the People services team in relation to employee relations concerns, being proactive and timely, producing well-presented investigations and reports that are of a high standard.

To take full responsibility for the high standard of the home, reporting any works required to the Technology and Estates department in a timely manner in accordance with the repairs and maintenance processes.

To take ownership and pride in the upkeep of the home ensuring all health and safety checks and tasks are completed as required. To ensure the home has a warm and inviting atmosphere and has been made homely for the children.

To oversee all cleaning and maintenance tasks as outlined within the residential maintenance processes by carrying out a weekly around of the home and following up on all required actions.

Liaising with the Quality & Assurance department, ensuring the effective review of all residential audits and action plans.

To ensure all actions as outlined by the quality assurance department are actioned in a timely manner.

To complete the Reg 45 on a monthly basis and ensure submission to Ofsted within timescales.

To support Reg 44 visits and respond to all reports ensuring actions are addressed within timescales

To be responsible for monitoring the house budgets with weekly finance checks and action plans in place to review use of budgets, efficiency and cost savings analysis.

To provide a comprehensive reports on home costings and actions.

To be an active and encouraging Manager, establishing, and maintaining effective communication with all stakeholders.

To oversee the young people’s financial arrangements, ensuring staff competence in recording any transactions.

To work alongside the Strategy and Pathways Team, building and maintaining all stakeholder relationships in relation to referral generation and ongoing relationships with current home and commissioning teams of the children.

To record all contact with stakeholders on the home clear care records ensuring regular meetings are set up and attended with each stakeholder of the home.

To be responsible for your own development and well-being, ensuring you attend staff support monthly.

To comply with Care in Mind’s Equal Opportunities Policy

Recognise and appropriately challenge any incidents of racism, bullying, harassment or victimisation.

To always maintain confidentiality, in accordance with the agreed policy.

Ensure adherence to Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) protocols to maintain a safe and hygienic environment for young people and staff.

It is the responsibility of all staff to read and work to the company safeguarding policy, to complete the Safeguarding training commensurate with their job role, and to report any genuine concerns to the designated safeguarding officer/lead on site, or a senior member of staff.

The tasks and responsibilities shown above are not exhaustive and should be regarded only as a guide. The post-holder will be expected to undertake any reasonable activities according to the needs of the business at the time. These will be subject to periodic review and may be amended to meet the changing needs of the business and the interests and skills of the post-holder. The post-holder will be expected to participate in this process, and the company would aim to reach agreement to any changes.

Person specification

Experience

• Previous experience of working in a Registered Manager role
• 2 years recent experience (within last 5 years), working in a position relevant to the residential care of children
• 2 years recent experience (within last 5 years), working in a position relevant to the residential care of children
• Can demonstrate a commitment towards continued professional development
• Previous experience in conducting disciplinary investigations and fact finds
• Experience of working with Ofsted registered services.
• Good knowledge and experience of law and practice relating to looked after children

Skills

• Excellent understanding of mental health and the issues children and young people face
• In depth knowledge of the Childrens Homes Regulations 2015 and associated quality standards.
• In depth knowledge of child protection procedures and impact of abuse and neglect
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• The ability to work collaboratively with a wider multi-disciplinary team (both internal and external).
• Committed to a structured approach to training and development of staff.
• Professional, confident, and warm personality.
• Ability to organise own workload effectively and to work independently
• Ability to control and manage budgets
• Skills in the recruitment, selection and retention of staff.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage challenging situations
• IT literate with an understanding and experience of care management/recording systems and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Word/Teams/Outlook/Powerpoint).

Qualifications

• Hold NVQ/QCF Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care/ Childrens and Young Peoples Workforce, or equivalent qualifications
• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare or a willingness to undertake this qualification as part of the role within a 2 year period (fully funded).
• Social Work Qualification

Other

• To have a clean driving licence and access to a car
• Ability to work shifts and work on a on call rota out of hours
• Be physically fit enough to carry out all requirements of the role including the use of Therapeutic Risk Management to manage challenging behaviour and undertake emergency lifesaving duties including basic life support if required.
• We will expect your values and behaviours to mirror those of Care in Mind, as illustrated on page 2 of this job description.

Additional Information

• Please note that training will be 6 days held at our Head Office in Stockport - reasonable expenses will be reimbursed.
• As a disability confident employer, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process - please email: jobs@careinmind.com
• Please note that we do not accept CV’s and the application must be completed in full.
• Care in Mind operates a safer recruitment process and as part of this process the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
• While we value the use of AI technology to enhance our daily work, we also value the personal touch and urge applicants to write their supporting statement without the use of AI to emphasise their own unique experiences. It is also unacceptable to use AI to inflate skills and experiences on the application form.
• We are an equal opportunities employer who values diversity and positively encourages applications of all ages from all sections of the community.
• We reserve the right to close the advert early, should we appoint a suitable candidate.
• Please be aware that Care in Mind do not hold a sponsorship licence.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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