Registered Manager- Children's Home

This is a Gloucestershire County Council job.
 

• Job Title:                           Registered Manager- Children's Home
• Job Location:                     Gloucester 
• Salary:                              £52,431 - £54,495 per annum 
• Hours per Week:                37 
• Contract Type:                   Permanent  
• Closing Date:                     10/08/2025 
• Job Requisition Number:     9879 
• This post is open to job share

Gloucestershire County Council is in an exciting phase of growth, creating a network of high-quality children’s homes as part of our ambitious in-house residential strategy. Having successfully recruited strong teams across our early homes, we are now looking for a skilled and passionate Registered Manager to lead one of our new homes for children. This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a developing service, where you’ll have a genuine impact — not only on children’s lives, but also on how care is delivered in a local authority context.

We are seeking applications from professionals who are passionate about leading the service and ensuring that our most vulnerable children and young people, cared for within the homes, receive appropriate services to enable them to achieve timely permanence.

To see more information on the upcoming of our new Children's homes, click here.

Right Child, Right Support, Right Time, Every Time

Gloucestershire’s vision is ‘Working together to support families and communities to give every child the best chance of a happy and rewarding life, especially those who need more help.'  Implementation of our ambitious improvement and transformation plans are creating the optimum conditions within which our staff can make a real difference and improve outcomes for children. The investment we’ve committed into our in-house residential strategy demonstrates our commitment to getting this right for our children and young people.

Reward and Support

For all your hard work, you will receive the following:

• between £52,431 - £54,495 per annum subject to experience
• flexible and agile working opportunities
• 25.5 days annual leave rising to 30.5 days after 5 years continuous service
• option to purchase 10 days of additional leave per year (pro rata for part-time staff)
• family friendly policies and benefits to help support you and your family
• supportive and positive working environment with regular, robust supervision
• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)
• access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that provides free, confidential, counselling and advice for employees, available 24 hours a day, online and by telephone
• an in-house Occupational Health service
• employee discount scheme
• cycle to work scheme
• links to employee networks such as Prism (LGBT+) and the Young Employees Network
• career development and qualification opportunities
• access to our Social Work Academy

As well as the above, your role comes with additional benefits:

• at GCC, every decision is about what's best for the child - you’ll have the autonomy and support to deliver truly child-centered, therapeutic care, free from commercial pressures
• be part of a connected system where your insights directly shape practice and policy. Build a strong professional network with education, health, police, and social care teams
• you’ll be supported through our Social Work Academy, including a Specialist Advanced Educator for Residential, who helps our leaders and staff build exceptional homes
• clinically supported, Trauma-Informed Practice – you’ll work alongside two dedicated clinicians, integrated into the service to embed therapeutic care in every aspect of the home
• support includes regular reflective practice, case formulation, and staff development, helping your team to build resilience, deepen trauma awareness, and deliver consistent care
• you will play a vital role in enhancing placement stability, strengthening emotional containment, and supporting staff to respond to behaviours in the context of children’s life experiences
• make your mark – our children’s homes are new - that means your leadership, ideas, and passion will directly shape the home's culture, values, and standards from day one

About you

If you are an aspiring or experienced Registered Manager and are committed to improving outcomes for children and young people in care, we would like to hear from you. We’re particularly interested in hearing from established managers or deputies of children’s homes with leadership skills backed up by demonstrable outcomes regarding the children’s homes you have been leading.

As well as your experience of working in children’s homes, there are some things we require of you to be successfully appointed to this post:

• level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Care (or nearing completion/able to begin the programme) or an equivalent qualification
• evidence of continued professional development
• experience in a supervisory role
• full driving licence and willingness to drive
• DBS clearance

How to apply

For an informal chat about this role, please contact ChildrenHomeRecruitment@gloucestershire.gov.uk

The council will consider sponsorship for this role, in line with Home Office regulations and subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.

We reserve the right to close an advertisement earlier than the stated closing date if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Under the terms of our Safer Recruitment Policy, if you are invited to interview, we will take up safeguarding references prior to your interview to understand your suitability to work with vulnerable children. These references will then be discussed in your interview. Please give details of at least two referees, one of whom must be your present and/or last employer and the other from a previous employer(s). These will need to cover the last three years of employment/education. In the case of applicants leaving full time education or not having worked since doing so, the Head of School, College or University should be one of the named referees. We do not accept references from friends or family members or workplace colleagues (who are not more senior). To ensure we process your application in a speedy and efficient way, we will contact your referees by DocuSign. Where appropriate, please inform them of your application.

Additional Information

To access the Job Profile for this role, please follow the link below:-

Registered Manager Job Profile

This position is subject to a DBS check.

Gloucestershire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people or vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We want to be an employer of choice, attracting and retaining excellent people to work for us, so that we can best serve all of Gloucestershire’s diverse communities.  Our promise to you is that we will provide an inclusive and supportive working environment that enables you to bring your whole self to work and realise your full potential.

It is a legal requirement, under the Immigration Act 2016, that anyone appointed to a ‘customer facing role’ must be able to demonstrate an ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence in fluent English.

Hybrid working arrangements are available for the majority of our roles, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice, with a mix of both remote and office working.