Overview
As a Team Manager at Clare Lodge Secure Children’s Home, you will play a key leadership role in ensuring the safe, effective, and high‑quality delivery of care for children within a secure environment. Working alongside the Registered Manager, you will support the day‑to‑day running of the home, ensuring practice is aligned with statutory regulations, inspection frameworks, and trauma‑informed principles.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage a team of either operational or case‑management staff, providing regular supervision, performance oversight, and support to maintain high professional standards and staff wellbeing.
- Oversee safeguarding, care planning, and frontline practice—ensuring that all plans, risk assessments, and records are robust, up to date, and consistently implemented to promote positive outcomes for children.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external partners—including education, health, and social care professionals—to deliver integrated, child‑centred services.
- Contribute to quality assurance processes, audits, and inspection readiness, ensuring that all areas of responsibility remain compliant and evidence‑led.
- Support operational delivery through effective resource management, rota oversight, and participation in admissions and placement processes, while being prepared to step into senior roles when required to maintain continuity of leadership.
Qualifications
- Experienced and confident leader with a strong commitment to delivering high‑quality care within a secure and regulated environment.
- Clear understanding of safeguarding, risk management, and trauma‑informed practice, with ability to apply this consistently in day‑to‑day decision‑making.
- Ability to lead and motivate others, providing clear direction, effective supervision, and constructive challenge to support staff performance, wellbeing, and professional development.
- Organised, resilient, and capable of managing competing priorities while maintaining a visible and consistent leadership presence within the home.
- Strong communication and partnership skills, working effectively with colleagues, external professionals, and multi‑agency partners to ensure coordinated, child‑centred care.
- Committed to achieving positive outcomes for children, maintaining high professional standards, and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
Benefits
- Access to a range of benefits via our Employee Benefits Platform, including in‑store and online discounts as well as our Cycle to Work and Home & Electronics schemes.
- Buy up to 10 days additional annual leave (pro‑rata).
- Access to car lease scheme.
- Take bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared Cost AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
- Access to development opportunities including apprenticeships to support your personal and professional growth.
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
- Access to our equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Opportunities to receive Employee Recognition Awards.
Commitments
We are proud to be an equal‑opportunities employer, dedicated to fostering diversity, advancing equity, and building an inclusive workplace for everyone. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and particularly encourage those from underrepresented groups, including disabled people, care leavers, and individuals from minority ethnic communities. Your unique perspectives and experiences are encouraged and valued and will play a vital role in our success.
We are committed to making our recruitment process as accessible as possible. If you are a person who has or considers yourself to have a disability and you require reasonable adjustments to the application or interview process, please contact us.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
