Registered Manager
8 days ago
Manchester
Registered Manager - Residential Child Care (EBD) Location: Manchester (Central) Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 per annum (DOE) Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday (flexibility considered) Welcome Bonus: Up to £5,000 upon registration I am recruiting on behalf of a growing children's residential provider for a Registered Manager to lead a 3-bed EBD home currently supporting one child. The organisation's priority is simple: delivering exceptional, consistent, and therapeutic care tailored to the individual child. This is not volume-driven care. The focus is stability, relationships, and outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Registered Manager or a strong Deputy Manager ready to step up, who leads with warmth, accountability, and high standards. The Role As Registered Manager, you will have full operational responsibility for the home, ensuring it provides a safe, nurturing, and structured family-style environment where the child can thrive. You will: • Lead and manage all aspects of the residential home in line with Ofsted and Children's Homes Regulations, • Create a warm, homely, and therapeutic environment tailored to the individual child, • Ensure high-quality care planning and positive behavioural support strategies, • Drive positive outcomes in education, health, and emotional wellbeing, • Oversee safeguarding, safer recruitment, and compliance processes, • Manage and develop the staff team through supervision, appraisals, and coaching, • Ensure rotas meet the child's individual needs, • Maintain effective communication systems, including handovers and care documentation, • Manage budgets and resources responsibly, • Develop and implement service improvement plans, • Work collaboratively with external professionals, schools, and familiesWhat's on Offer, • £55,000 - £65,000 salary (depending on experience), • Up to £5,000 welcome bonus (reclaimable if leaving within 12 months), • Discretionary bonus upon Ofsted registration, • 32 days annual leave, • Funded essential qualifications, • Clear progression pathway to Responsible Individual, • Business vehicle (if required), • Pension contributions, • Mileage reimbursement for business use, • Ongoing CPD and training, • Paid DBS (if required), • Laptop and mobile phone, • Birthday day off, • Long service awards, • Referral bonuses, • Staff wellbeing initiatives and team activity retreatsEssential Criteria, • NVQ Level 3 in Children & Young People (or equivalent), • Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care (or willingness to complete), • Willingness to register with Ofsted, • Minimum two years' experience in children's residential care within the past five years, • Minimum one year's leadership/supervisory experience in a care setting, • Strong safeguarding knowledge and safer recruitment understanding, • Experience managing Ofsted compliance and inspections, • Excellent leadership and relationship-building skills, • Strong written and verbal communication skills, • IT proficiency (Microsoft packages), • GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Maths Know someone who would be suitable and interested? Please refer them to us at Chase Medical and ask for Rob. Chase Medical are a specialist recruitment agency in Social Care and Primary Care settings. #INDTRC2022