# Registered Manager – Residential Children’s Home

**Company**: Priorygroup
**Location**: Stroud, England
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £50,000
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We're looking for an experienced Registered Manager to lead The Lighthouse, a specialist 5-bed residential home in Stroud supporting young females aged 13–18 experiencing mental health difficulties.

This is an opportunity to lead a small, dedicated service where your leadership can make a genuine and lasting difference. You'll have real visibility and influence over the home's culture, your team's development and, most importantly, the outcomes and experiences of the young people we support.

## Key Responsibilities

- Operational Leadership: Oversee day-to-day operations, ensuring full compliance with Ofsted regulations and the Children’s Homes Regulations 2015.

- Quality & Safeguarding: Maintain high-quality care plans, risk assessments, and behaviour support strategies while embedding robust safeguarding practices.

- Ofsted Readiness: Lead the home through regulatory inspections with a drive to achieve and sustain ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ ratings.

- Team Development: Recruit, inspire, and retain a high-performing care team through active supervision, development, and strong leadership.

- Stakeholder Engagement: Build effective working partnerships with local authorities, social workers, and external multidisciplinary teams.

## Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

- Qualifications: Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare (or currently working towards it). or L5 Diploma in Health & Social Care or equivalent with Residential Childcare experience.

- Experience: Proven track record at Management or strong experience at Deputy Manager level within a children’s residential care setting.

- Regulatory Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Ofsted inspection frameworks and children's safeguarding legislation.

- Approach: A values-driven, resilient leader with a deep commitment to trauma-informed and therapeutic care principles.

## Benefits

- Birthday Holiday - Your Birthday as an extra day's annual leave

- Enhanced maternity pay

- Contributory pension scheme

- Flexible benefits including reduced rates and access to new schemes including gym membership, IT technology (laptops / tablets / smartphones) and Healthcare Cash Plan (Simply Health Scheme)

- Access to development opportunities

- Sponsorship of professional qualifications through our Individual Professional Development (IPD) panel

- Leadership & management development

- Long service award

- Refer a friend bonuses

## Skills

### Required
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare
- L5 Diploma in Health & Social Care
- Residential Childcare experience
- Ofsted inspection frameworks
- children's safeguarding legislation

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