Registered Manager

• 3 Bed Children's Residential Home (EBD)

• Good Rated with Ofsted

• Kettering, Northamptonshire

• £50,000 to £60,000 Basic, Plus £10,000 Annual Bonus

A three bed home in Kettering, supporting three young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties, is fully staffed, fully trained and well established in how it runs day to day, which means the person stepping into this role inherits a team that already knows what good practice looks like.

What Ofsted Found

• Inspected only a few months ago, this exact home was judged good across every single area assessed, covering the experiences and progress of the young person living there, how well they're helped and protected, and the effectiveness of leadership throughout the home

• Inspectors specifically noted the warmth between staff and the young person they spoke with, which speaks to a culture that has been built with real care

• A family involved in that young person's care had nothing but good things to say about the team

About the Organisation Behind This Home

• Founded by someone who spent close to two decades supporting adults experiencing homelessness before choosing to bring that depth of understanding into children's residential care, which gives the organisation an unusually grounded, human starting point

• They are committed to properly matching young people to homes and keeping group sizes small, so care can stay personal

• Every home in the group currently holds a good judgement from Ofsted at its most recent inspection, and one has been rated outstanding

• Registered Managers get direct, ongoing access to a multidisciplinary clinical team including psychologists and therapists, so trauma informed practice is something you're properly supported to deliver day to day

• Expanding at a considered pace, with further homes opening across the East Midlands and into Leicestershire over the coming months, which means real progression routes for managers who want to grow alongside the organisation

• A culture that visibly celebrates people developing within the business, including the Registered Manager at a sister home locally, who progressed all the way from a Residential Support Worker role into registered management and delivered that outstanding result herself, so ambition here is something to be nurtured rather than merely tolerated

What's on Offer

• Basic salary of £50,000 to £60,000 per annum, plus a £10,000 annual bonus, with total potential earnings of up to £70,000

• A full staff team already recruited, trained and settled into the home, meaning your first weeks are about deepening good practice instead of covering gaps in a rota that hasn't been built yet

• Direct, ongoing access to a multidisciplinary clinical team, including psychologists and therapists, embedded into how the home supports each young person

• Genuine investment in matching young people to homes properly and keeping group sizes small enough that care stays personal

• A track record of good Ofsted judgements across every home in the group at their most recent inspection

• Real career progression as the organisation expands into new homes across the East Midlands, Kent and Leicestershire, with clear routes for managers ready to grow into wider leadership

• Support to complete your Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare if you haven't already, recognising that strong deputy managers with the right leadership experience are just as valuable as established Registered Managers

What You'll Be Doing

• Taking full day to day responsibility for the home, making sure it consistently meets the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and the accompanying Quality Standards

• Holding Ofsted registration as the home's Registered Manager and leading confidently through inspections under the social care common inspection framework

• Recruiting, supervising, training and developing a staff team that's already in place, building on the strong foundations they've put down so far

• Working closely with the home's Responsible Individual, the wider senior leadership team and external clinical specialists to embed individualised, trauma informed care for each young person

• Managing Regulation 44 visits, Regulation 45 reviews and Regulation 40 notifications, along with Annex A submissions and the home's Statement of Purpose, so the regulatory side of the role runs as smoothly as the day to day care does

• Building genuine working relationships with placing authorities, education providers, families and other professionals involved in each young person's care and future

• Managing the home's budget and quality assurance systems, and leading on safeguarding, risk assessment and safer recruitment practice, making sure every member of staff holds an enhanced DBS and the right level of ongoing training

What You'll Bring

• A Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare, or genuine progress toward one, ideally at least halfway through if you're stepping up from a deputy manager role

• Strong experience as a Registered Manager, or as a Deputy Manager who has worked closely alongside a Registered Manager on Regulation 44s, Regulation 45s and Ofsted engagement and is ready to take that experience into registration, since curiosity and an appetite to keep learning at every stage count for just as much here as years already served in the job title

• For a Deputy Manager moving into their first registration, salary typically starts in the £45,000 to £50,000 range while you're establishing yourself, and moves up within the advertised band as your Level 5 progresses and the role beds in, so there's a clear, honest path instead of a flat rate regardless of experience

• A confident, practical working knowledge of Ofsted's inspection framework, the Quality Standards and the Children's Homes Regulations 2015, applied in the day to day running of a home

• Real, hands on experience supporting young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties, ideally with some background in trauma informed or therapeutic approaches to care

• Demonstrated leadership skills and the confidence to guide, develop and get the best out of a team that's already performing well

• A full, valid UK driving licence, since the role involves transporting young people and travelling to meetings across the local area

• A commutable distance to Kettering that allows for a genuinely workable on call arrangement, since this protects both your own quality of life and the consistency the young people in the home rely on

• A real belief that every young person deserves the chance to properly thrive, along with the patience and emotional maturity to back that belief up through the good weeks and the harder ones

If any of this sounds like the role you've been hoping would turn up, it's worth having a conversation before deciding either way. We'd much rather talk you through what the home is really like, who you'd be working alongside and what support looks like day to day, so you're not applying on the strength of a job advert alone and finding out three interviews in that it wasn't quite what you expected. Send your CV across or drop us a message, and we'll take it from there.