An exciting opportunity for a Registered Manager to join a Residential Children's home. This role is ideal for a professional who enjoys leading stable, well run children’s residential environments, solving safeguarding, compliance, and service quality challenges, and working within a regulated, care led setting supporting children and young people with learning disabilities, SEMH, and complex needs.

Why This Role
This role offers autonomy and accountability at Registered Manager level, exposure to a growing and well invested residential provision, and the chance to further develop emotionally resilient, values led leadership. This position focuses on long term service stability, safeguarding first practice, and creating a positive culture for both children and staff.

The Role: Registered Manager – Children’s Residential Care
In this role, you will spend most of your time leading the overall quality, compliance, and culture of the home. You will work closely with senior leaders, external professionals, and multidisciplinary teams and be responsible for delivering child centred outcomes through robust care planning, safeguarding leadership, and regulatory compliance. This role balances operational leadership with people focused service development, providing clarity on expectations from day one.

What You’ll Bring
Registered Manager experience in children’s residential care, or clear evidence that you are ready to register
Level 4 or 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care for Children and Young People, with significant management experience in an LD or children’s residential service

Benefits & Environment
Benefits for this role include flexibility appropriate to the needs of the service, funded professional development and qualifications, competitive salary and performance related rewards, and a working environment that supports safeguarding, emotional resilience, staff wellbeing, and long term career stability.

If this Registered Manager role sounds like a strong match for your experience and career goals, we encourage you to apply. Submit your application and a member of our team will be in touch to discuss next steps.

Since 1951, Drake International has connected people with meaningful work across the UK and globally. We are committed to inclusive, equitable hiring and a respectful recruitment process in line with the Equality Act 2010. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to offer visa sponsorship support.

*Shortlisted applicants will be contacted by our recruitment team for an initial conversation.