Location: Heald Green, South Manchester (SK8 area)Salary:Up to £55,000 per annum (depending on experience + performance benefits)
Do not pass up this chance, apply quickly if your experience and skills match what is in the following description.
Hours: Full-time (Monday to Friday, 9:00am 5:00pm, flexible management presence + on-call rota)
Key Benefits: Up to £55k salary + Ofsted inspection awards (up to £2k) | 1 protected admin day/week | Birthday + Xmas shopping days off | £1k annual CPD allowance | £300 annual wellbeing allowance | Loyalty bonuses & rising leave | En-suite staff facilities
Are you looking for a leadership role where relational, person-centred care comes first?
If you're an established Registered Manager looking for a fresh, values-led challenge with genuine autonomy and clinical backing, we want to hear from you.
SM Care was founded by leaders with a distinguished background in the police force who entered residential childcare for all the right reasonsbringing unwavering integrity, child advocacy, and genuine heart. We believe that caring for young people is about building deep, lasting connections. Here, you'll have a genuine clean slate: the rare autonomy, clinical backing, and executive partnership needed to shape a true therapeutic culture, ethos, and living environment from day one.
Why join the SM Care Ltd family?
- A New Provider with a Fresh Vision: Shape the culture, ethos, and standards of our founding service from the ground up, putting your personal stamp on our provision.
- A True Therapeutic Ethos: Work directly alongside our psychotherapists to embed a person-centred, reflective living community throughout the home.
- Supportive Partnership: Lead in close collaboration with our Responsible Individual consultant and directors, ensuring constant guidance and zero isolation.
- Executive Mentoring & Growth: Access tailored leadership mentoring, continuous executive support, and an annual CPD allowance tailored to your professional development goals.
Ready to apply? Skip to the apply now button to start your journey with SM Care Ltd.
Why join SM Care Ltd?
We know that children's residential care requires deep resilience, empathy, and heart. Our homes are vibrant, safe places where children feel secure, wanted, and empowered to process past trauma alongside adults who truly advocate for them.
As a Registered Manager with us, you'll never have to carry the weight of leadership on your own. Our founders and Responsible Individual are right beside you with an open door, genuine backing, and a warm, reflective culture where we problem-solve, learn, and celebrate progress together.
About Our Home / Our Hub
Located in Heald Green, South Manchester, our brand-new residential service is a high-specification, welcoming home designed to provide stability, comfort, and space for young people with complex emotional and social needs. Featuring en-suite staff bedrooms and dedicated management offices, it offers a secure, homely base for our children while giving you and your team the comfortable, professional spaces you need to lead effectively.
The Role: What you'll be doing
You'll hold full operational leadership of this new home, establishing high-quality care practice, regulatory compliance, and a nurturing therapeutic ethos.
Your day-to-day as a Registered Manager will involve:
- Therapeutic Leadership: Championing a person-centred, relational approach, working with psychotherapists to formulate live Behaviour Support Plans and Risk Assessments.
- Team Development & Culture: Recruiting, inducting, supervising, and delivering reflective practice sessions to maintain high expectations across your care team.
- Regulatory Excellence: Leading on Regulation 45 quality reviews, managing Ofsted inspection readiness, and overseeing the service budget and resources.
Your Experience and QualificationsEssential:
- The Background: Proven, established track record as a Registered Manager in a children's residential care setting (minimum 2 years' relevant experience within the last 5 years).
- The Qualifications & Compliance: Already hold the NVQ / Diploma Level 5 in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (or equivalent), and be prepared to complete an Enhanced DBS check.
- The Logistics: Hold a full, valid UK driving licence.
Desirable:
- A proven track record of securing 'Good' or 'Outstanding' Ofsted inspection outcomes in previous residential leadership roles.
Your Package and Perks
- Competitive Salary & Leadership Bonuses: Up to £55,000 per annum (depending on experience) + Annual Leadership Recognition Award (focused on care quality, safeguarding, and team stabilitynever occupancy alone).
- Ofsted & Quality Recognition: £250 holiday/wellbeing voucher on initial Ofsted registration, plus £1,000 for a 'Good' rating and £2,000 for an 'Outstanding' inspection outcome.
- Protected Management Time: 1 designated admin/management day each week (where operationally possible) dedicated strictly to QA, supervision, audits, and leadershipfree from shift cover.
- Work-Life Balance & Extra Leave: Structured Monday to Friday hours (9:00am 5:00pm) with shared on-call, plus a paid Birthday off, a paid Christmas shopping day in December, and rising annual leave with service (+1 day per completed year, up to 5 extra days).
- Loyalty & Retention Milestones: Long-service bonuses at 12 months (£500 voucher), 2 years (£1,000 bonus), and 3 years (£1,500 bonus + an extra full paid week of leave).
- Development & Wellbeing Allowances: Up to £1,000 annual CPD budget for specialist training and conferences, £300 annual personal wellbeing allowance, and a £500 employee referral scheme.
- Workplace Environment: Brand-new high-spec facility with en-suite staff bedrooms, private management offices, psychotherapist support, Workplace Pension, and free EAP access.
Our Interview Process
We respect your time and keep our recruitment journey clear and straightforward:
- Apply: Submit your CV and answer the screening questions.
- Screening: An initial conversation with our Responsible Individual consultant.
- Interview: A face-to-face competency and culture interview with our RI consultant and company directors.
- Offer: Conditional hiring decision, subject to safer recruitment compliance checks. xiskglj
How to Apply
If you're ready to bring your experience and heart to our service as our next Registered Manager, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your CV.
SM Care Ltd is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are strictly committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children; all successful appointments are subject to comprehensive safer recruitment checks, referencing, and an Enhanced DBS.
