Registered Childrens Home Manager

Job Title:

Registered Children's Home Manager

Location:

Bicester, Cherwell
, Oxfordshire
, OX26 (Relocation assistance available)

Salary: £62,000 per annum

Bonus scheme:
Performance related bonus available linked to successful registration, compliance, and full occupancy retention.

Job Type:
Permanent, Full time

Hours of work:
40 hours per week, flexibility required for evenings and weekends.

Start Date:

Subject to satisfactory DBS check

The Client is a newly established children's home provider with a strong commitment to delivering high-quality, nurturing, and trauma informed care for children and young people with Social, Emotional, Mental Health/ Emotional behavioural difficulties. Their vision is to create a safe and stable home where children can thrive, achieve, and feel valued. They are seeking a passionate Registered Children's Home Manager with a strong background in managing complex behaviours to lead their first home and play a key role in helping to shape their culture, standards, and future growth.

This is an exciting opportunity for anyone who has experience of being a homes manager and is looking for a new challenge with a view to eventually progress to a more senior role within the company. You will lead a holistic, person-centred service that promotes emotional wellbeing, regulation, independence, and positive outcomes for children. Supporting the delivery of a range of wellbeing, physical, and sensory-based activities tailored to individual needs and preferences.

Reports to:

Responsible individual

The registered manager is responsible for the day-to-day management of the children's home, ensuring highest standards of care, safeguarding, and compliance.

The Client is currently working closely with Delphi Care Solutions who are a care consultancy with expertise in the Ofsted sector. The successful candidate will work together with them, whilst demonstrating commitment to the start up process inclusive of the initial stages, such as developing relevant paperwork for the home and ensuring the setting is fully compliant with regulations. It is essential that the successful candidate has extensive knowledge of the relevant legislations (Children's Home Regulations 2025 and Quality Standards) and understands what it takes to be compliant with Ofsted.

This role requires a deep understanding of Ofsted regulations, excellent communication and analytical skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.

• Supporting the provider to establish a children's home, lead on the statement of purpose, policies and procedures, recruitment, and be in communication with Ofsted.
• Registering with Ofsted and maintaining full regulatory compliance
• Managing the home on a day-to-day basis, ensuring it is compliant in meeting all relevant legislative and contractual requirements, including the health and educational needs of children.
• Liaising with other departments and specialist external agencies to ensure that the young people receive appropriate plans, programmes, and support in the home to aid their rehabilitation into the community, and to meet contractual obligations
• Coaching, supporting and developing staff, including supervision, to maximise their performance and ensure high standards of care, values, ethical standards, equality and diversity, policies and procedures, legislation and contractual and inspection framework requirements are met.
• Assisting in budget preparation and manage and control budgets to meet financial parameters
• Interpreting and implementing changes in legislation relating to occupancy to ensure any enhanced requirements are met.
• Identifying resourcing needs and the ongoing selection, training and development of staff to ensure service delivery is optimised and relevant standards are met.
• Engendering a positive health and safety culture to meet and maintain company and external accreditation standards.
• Building and creating mutual trust and respect with young people in order that they respond and react appropriately to information and advice.
• Producing, maintaining, and distributing house paperwork to ensure relevant information is recorded accurately and is available.
• Managing the complex behaviours of the children and young people to encompass all physical, psychological, emotional, spiritual, social need of our children and young people.
• Ensuring care is person-centred, communication led, and strengths based.
• Working closely with families, education providers, health…