Service Manager

Service Manager - Aldine House Secure Children's home £65372 per annum plus secure unit allowance

Lead a specialist therapeutic service

We are looking for an experienced, ambitious and values-led Service Manager to provide dedicated strategic and operational leadership to Aldine House Secure Children’s Home, Dore, Sheffield 17.This role is focused solely on Aldine House and provides a significant opportunity to shape the future of a specialist service for children and young people with complex needs.

Working as the Registered Service Manager, you will provide visible and accountable leadership across the home, bringing together care, education, health, psychology and support services around a clear and shared direction.

A central priority will be to increase appropriate occupancy and make the best use of Aldine House’s specialist capacity. You will lead a planned approach to referrals, placement matching, workforce readiness and partnership engagement, ensuring that growth is safe, sustainable and responsive to the needs of children already living at the home.

About Aldine House Aldine House provides secure welfare placements for children and young people aged 10 to 17 who require a safe, nurturing and highly supportive environment.

The service provides a therapeutic and trauma-informed environment where children can feel safe, stabilise, develop trusting relationships and begin to make meaningful changes in their lives.

Care, education, health and psychology professionals work together to understand each child’s individual experiences, strengths and needs. Through consistent relationships, clear boundaries and individualised support, the service helps children develop resilience, improve their wellbeing and prepare for their next steps.

Children and young people are at the centre of everything we do. Our approach is grounded in strong corporate parenting, high expectations and the belief that every child should receive the same care, support and opportunities we would want for our own children.

About the role

As Service Manager, you will hold overarching responsibility for the strategic and operational development of Aldine House.

You will:establish a clear vision and strategic plan for Aldine House;provide senior leadership and oversight of service performance, quality, safeguarding, workforce, occupancy and finance;work closely with the leadership team while maintaining clear regulatory and operational accountability;strengthen the therapeutic and trauma-informed culture across the service;ensure that care, education, health and psychology services operate as one integrated team around each child;lead a sustainable plan to increase appropriate occupancy;improve

referral, assessment, matching and admissions arrangements;ensure that placement decisions are timely, well evidenced and centred on children’s safety and needs;ensure that workforce capacity, skills and deployment are aligned with children’s needs and planned occupancy;maintain oversight of quality assurance, Regulation 44 and 45 activity, inspection readiness and improvement planning;use performance and financial information to identify risks, evidence progress and support effective decision-making;

and represent Aldine House confidently with senior leaders, elected members, regulators, commissioners and partner organisations.

About youYou will be an experienced senior leader who can combine strategic thinking with a strong understanding of operational delivery in a complex and regulated children’s service.

You will be able to demonstrate:substantial leadership and management experience in children’s residential care, secure provision or a comparable regulated service;experience of leading service improvement and organisational…