Director of Care
3 days ago
Walsall
Care Director, Children’s Services Location: Walsall WS1, hybrid with regional travel Salary: £85,000pa The brief Lead a growing portfolio across children’s, adults and fostering. You’ll hold Responsible Individual status for 3 children’s homes and provide senior oversight for 5 services in total. It’s a mix of strategy, quality, safeguarding and calm day-to-day leadership that keeps services inspection ready and child centred. What you’ll lead • Set direction and turn strategy into clear objectives across services, • Line manage Registered and Home Managers with regular supervision and development, • Run a QA cycle that sticks: audits, data, action plans, SCCIF readiness, • Senior safeguarding oversight with the Head of Safeguarding, learning loops built in, • Workforce planning, budgets, succession and management training, • Design, register and open new provisions across the West Midlands, • Build strong relationships with LAs, commissioners and regulators What you’ll bring • 5+ years at RM, Regional or Ops level in children’s residential care, • Track record moving services to Good or better and keeping them there, • Confidence opening and registering new homes and working with Ofsted, • Strong grip of Regulations, Quality Standards and SCCIF, • Level 5 Leadership and Management or equivalent. Level 7 desirable, • Data savvy, commercially aware, steady communicator, • Full UK driving licence and happy to travel What’s on offer • £85,000 salary, • Hybrid pattern anchored from Walsall WS1 with regional travel, • Real autonomy with solid central support and sensible decision lines, • Investment in CPD, reflective practice and leadership development, • Growth pipeline you can shape Interested? Message us for a confidential chat or send your CV. Safer recruitment applies. #CareDirector #ResponsibleIndividual #ChildrensHomes #ResidentialChildcare #Ofsted #Safeguarding #LeadershipJobs #WestMidlands #Walsall