Registered Childrens Home LD Manager Cardiff

Position: Registered Childrens Home LD Manager - £48k - Cardiff (Permanent)
Registered Children’s Home Manager (Learning Disabilities)

Location:

Cardiff
Salary: £48,000 per annum

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and passionate Registered Manager to lead a well-established Children’s Learning Disability home in Cardiff. This is a chance to take the helm of a service known for its stability, strong values, and consistently high standards of care.

About the Home
The home offers a supportive, family-oriented environment built on trust, meaningful relationships, and emotional safety. A committed, trauma informed team delivers child centred care, supported by strong multi agency partnerships and a reflective culture that prioritises wellbeing. With a history of excellent outcomes and clear development pathways, the leadership team is dedicated to investing in its people and nurturing long term careers.

The Role
As Registered Manager, you will provide both strategic and operational leadership, ensuring the home remains safe, nurturing, and fully compliant with Ofsted and regulatory requirements. Acting as the safeguarding lead, you will champion emotionally attuned, trauma informed practice and embed a culture of continuous improvement.

You will inspire and develop your team, ensuring each child receives exceptional, personalised care that enables them to grow, build confidence, and achieve their full potential.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver strong, compassionate and confident leadership

• Oversee daily operations and maintain regulatory compliance

• Embed trauma informed, child centred approaches

• Manage budgets, staffing structures, rotas and resources

• Drive quality assurance and continuous improvement

• Build trusted relationships with children, families and professionals

• Lead safeguarding processes and maintain robust standards

• Supervise, mentor and develop staff at all levels

• Contribute to strategic planning and long-term service development

Who We’re Looking For
The ideal candidate will be an experienced residential childcare leader who is:

• Passionate about achieving outstanding outcomes for children

• Confident managing and leading a regulated children’s service

• Skilled in trauma informed and emotionally intelligent leadership

• Focused on quality, compliance and service development

• A strong communicator who builds trust and positive partnerships

• Committed to reflective practice and team development

• Professional, resilient and firmly child-focused

• Holding, or working towards, a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management (Residential Childcare)

Why Join This Service?
This organisation is far more than a children’s home. It is a close knit, highly skilled team united by purpose and driven by a shared commitment to delivering exceptional care. The young people supported here inspire progress every day, and the stability of the team reflects a culture where people feel valued, supported and able to build meaningful, long term careers.

For a Registered Manager ready to make a genuine impact within a respected and values led service, this represents an outstanding opportunity!

For more information or a confidential chat please contact Holly on (phone number removed) or email (url removed)
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