Registered Manager for Children’s Home

Blue Recruitment Personnel is recruiting for an experienced Registered Manager to lead the opening and ongoing success of a new children’s home in the Nuneaton area.

The Role: You will provide strong, compliant leadership across the home, ensuring young people receive safe, consistent, and high-quality care. This position suits someone who can confidently balance Ofsted expectations, staff leadership, safeguarding, and day-to-day operational excellence.

Key responsibilities:

• Take full registered responsibility for the children’s home and ensure compliance with relevant regulations and quality standards.
• Lead, support, and develop the staff team to deliver exceptional care.
• Maintain a safe, nurturing, and structured environment for young people with EBD needs.
• Oversee safeguarding, care planning, risk management, and incident reporting.
• Work closely with the Responsible Individual to drive quality, consistency, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure the home is prepared for inspections and operates to a high regulatory standard.
• Build a strong, stable culture from the outset in a newly established home.

Requirements:

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare, or working towards it.
• Proven experience in a registered manager or deputy manager role within children’s residential care.
• Strong understanding of EBD, safeguarding, and Ofsted expectations.
• Confident leadership skills with the ability to motivate and develop a team.
• Experience working in a regulated residential childcare environment.
• Full UK right to work.

Suitable experience:

• Registered Manager or Deputy Manager experience in a children’s home.
• Experience opening, stabilising, or improving a residential service.
• Background in EBD, trauma-informed care, or complex needs.
• Strong working knowledge of children’s home compliance and inspection requirements.

What’s on offer:

• Competitive salary of £45,000 to £55,000 per annum.
• Bonus opportunities linked to performance and service outcomes.
• The chance to shape and lead a new children’s home.
• Strong support from an experienced Responsible Individual.
• A genuine opportunity for progression within a growing care setting.

Location: Nuneaton, UK

Skills required for this job:

• Child care
• Corporate compliance
• Incident reporting
• Risk management