Registered Manager – Dial Park Children’s Home in Stockport

Salary: MB4 (£45,091 - £51,356)

Hours: 37 Hours, Full Time

Contract: Permanent

Location: Dial Park Children’s House, some hybrid working available

Your Role

We are looking for an exceptional Registered Manager to lead the next chapter of that journey. This is an opportunity to build on the home's strong values, experienced team and proud history, while helping to shape the future of residential care within a growing and ambitious service. Dial Park is a home with a strong identity, a warm and nurturing culture, and a staff team who genuinely care about the children and young people they support.

As Registered Manager, you will provide clear, compassionate and confident leadership, ensuring children remain at the heart of every decision. You will oversee all aspects of the home's operation, from safeguarding, quality and compliance through to developing staff, supporting care planning and creating an environment where young people feel safe, valued, understood and able to achieve their potential.

This is a role where relationships matter. We are looking for someone who can combine high expectations with warmth, curiosity and good judgement; someone who can support and inspire a team, build strong partnerships, and help children make sense of their experiences, develop confidence and move forward positively in their lives. For the right person, this is a rare opportunity to lead a well‑established home with deep roots in the community, while playing a key role in the next stage of Stockport's residential journey.

About You

You may already be an experienced Registered Manager looking for your next challenge within a supportive and ambitious local authority. Equally, you may be a Deputy Manager or experienced senior leader who is ready to take the next step. If so, we would be keen to talk to you. What matters most is your ability to lead people, build strong relationships, make good decisions and maintain a relentless focus on improving outcomes for children.

• A strong commitment to children's rights and achieving the very best outcomes.
• Experience of trauma-informed and relationship-based practice.
• The ability to lead and develop teams through supportive and reflective leadership.
• Resilience, emotional intelligence and sound professional judgement.
• A passion for creating homes where children feel safe, cared for and valued.

About Us

There has never been a more exciting time to join Stockport's residential service. We are growing, investing and creating homes where children can experience stability, belonging and the support they need to achieve their potential.

You’ll join a leadership team that is ambitious, supportive and committed to doing the right thing for children. We value relationships over bureaucracy, reflective practice over blame, and long‑term outcomes over short‑term fixes. Above all, we believe children deserve homes where they feel safe, cared for and hopeful about their future.

In return, you’ll find the stability, development opportunities, pension and values‑led culture that come with local government, alongside the opportunity to help shape the future of residential care in Stockport. Dial Park is one of Stockport's longest‑standing children’s homes and has been part of the local community for decades. It is a warm and nurturing home with a dedicated team who work hard every day to support children through some of the most important periods of their lives. Recent months have seen significant progress within the home, with young people achieving positive outcomes and moving closer towards their individual goals. The home benefits from an experienced staff team who are committed to building trusting relationships and providing consistent, thoughtful care.

This is an opportunity to join a home with strong foundations, a positive culture and the support of a wider residential leadership team that genuinely values collaboration, learning and improvement. We are investing in and expanding our residential provision, with new homes opening over the coming months as we continue to strengthen our in‑house offer for children and young people.

We believe children’s homes should be places of possibility. Places where children feel safe, valued and cared for; where trusted relationships help them make sense of their experiences, build confidence and believe in their future. That belief drives everything we do. We are ambitious for our children, ambitious for our staff and ambitious about what residential care can achieve. If you share that vision, you'll join a service that values strong relationships, supportive leadership and a relentless focus on helping children experience stability, belonging and lasting positive change.

At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We are keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

The successful applicant’s appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex‑military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Stockport Council is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce culture - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and communities to join our workforce.

We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.