Registered Manager – Residential Children’s Home
Location: Grimsby
Home: 3 Bed EBD
Salary & Benefits
- Additional bonus structure in place
- Additional paid leave for your birthday
- Company car available for use after 12 months of employment
- Company pension
- Ongoing training and professional development
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the day-to-day operation of the home, ensuring high-quality, child-centred care.
- Create a safe, nurturing environment where children feel valued, respected and supported.
- Ensure compliance with the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, Quality Standards, Statement of Purpose and Ofsted requirements.
- Maintain strong safeguarding arrangements and ensure concerns, incidents and allegations are managed appropriately.
- Oversee care plans, risk assessments, behaviour-support plans and placement plans.
- Ensure children’s wishes, feelings and individual needs are central to decision-making.
- Monitor outcomes across education, health, emotional wellbeing, relationships and independence.
- Lead referrals, matching and admissions, ensuring placements can be safely supported.
- Recruit, supervise, develop and retain a skilled staff team.
- Maintain safe staffing levels, effective rotas, training and professional development.
- Manage staff performance and promote a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Prepare for Ofsted inspections and oversee Regulation 44 visits and Regulation 45 reviews.
- Lead quality assurance, audits and improvement plans, ensuring actions are completed and evidenced.
- Monitor incidents, complaints, safeguarding concerns and other trends to identify areas for improvement.
- Build effective relationships with social workers, education providers, health professionals, families and other agencies.
- Promote trauma-informed and relationship-based practice and ensure restrictive interventions are necessary, proportionate and reviewed.
- Maintain appropriate health and safety, premises, medication and emergency arrangements.
- Manage the delegated budget and ensure resources are used effectively.
- Participate in on-call arrangements and escalated significant concerns to the Responsible Individual.
Requirements & Experience
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare, or equivalent, or willingness to complete the qualification.
- Substantial experience working with children in residential childcare.
- Experience supervising and managing staff providing direct care.
- Experience managing safeguarding concerns, incidents, risk and care planning.
- Experience of staff supervision, quality assurance, audits and improvement planning.
- Strong knowledge of Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, Quality Standards and Ofsted requirements.
- Knowledge of Regulation 40, Regulation 44 and Regulation 45 requirements.
- Understanding of trauma-informed, relationship-based and positive behaviour support.
- Strong communication, report-writing, organisational and decision-making skills.
- Ability to analyse information, identify risks and challenge poor practice.
- Calm, resilient and confident leadership style.
- Genuine commitment to improving outcomes for children and young people.
- Flexibility to work evenings, weekends and on-call duties.
- Willingness to complete enhanced DBS and safer recruitment checks.
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