Registered Manager - Home 1

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council; Barnsley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council is expanding its Children in Care residential offer and recruiting the first Registered Manager to lead a new home from the ground up. You will shape the service, recruit a team, and oversee operations across the programme, working to establish best practices and partnership links with external agencies.

You will be responsible for delivering high-quality care, regulatory compliance and budget management while guiding the future set-up of additional homes in

Qualifications

• Experience leading residential children’s care services.
• Strong people management and budget oversight skills.
• Proven ability to build and maintain external partnerships and multi-agency work.
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies and looked after children requirements.
• Experience managing change within a new service and setting standards.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and overall management of the home, ensuring it meets standards and regulations.
• Develop staffing rota, recruit and supervise staff; manage supervision and training.
• Manage the home’s budget and maintain records and service plans.
• Represent the service in internal and external settings and build community partnerships.
• Chair planning meetings and contribute to reports to service management.

Skills

Leadership

Budgeting

Partnership working

Change management

Safeguarding knowledge

Ofsted knowledge

Education

A Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management in Residential Childcare

Job description

Position reference:50146682

Working Arrangements : Monday to Friday, flexibility will be required

The successful candidate will be required to speak English to an appropriate standard.

This post requires an Enhanced DBS Check

If you are currently living overseas or have lived overseas in the last five years please be aware, if you are the preferred candidate for the post, you will be required to apply for an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in. If you experience difficulty in obtaining an overseas criminal record check please email [e-mail]

When applying, please ensure you are prepared to start work with all the necessary legal documents, such as a valid visa, relevant to the type of work you will be undertaking. Please be aware that our organisation does not possess a Home Office license and, as a result, is unable to provide sponsorship for anyone seeking a visa as a skilled or temporary migrant worker.

Pensions Regulations have provisions to reduce pension payments in certain circumstances of those who return to work within local government service. If you are in receipt of a pension upon commencing employment with the authority, this may affect your pension entitlements and you should therefore seek advice from the relevant Pensions Authority.

At Barnsley Council you can start a career that makes a real difference to people’s lives, helping our council and residents to be the best they can be.

We’re an award-winning council and one of the biggest employers in the borough, supporting around 243,000 people. We put people at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our employees. As part of the team, we offer lots of benefits and rewards to support you to thrive and grow, like flexible working, employee discounts, support for your health and wellbeing, and opportunities for training and development to grow your career and develop your skills.

There’s so much happening in our thriving borough, and now’s the perfect time to join our excellentChildren in Careteam as we work to make Barnsley the place of possibilities.

• We’re an award-winning team and one of the biggest employers in the borough supporting around 243,000 people.
• Working at Barnsley Council means being part of a team that makes a real difference to people’s lives, where you can develop the skills you need to make change happen.
• If you join the team you’ll receive great pay alongside an excellent pension scheme. With flexible working we’ll also support your work/life balance, helping you to adjust your hours and take time off when you need it.
• We’ll help you to develop your career and grow your skills with opportunities for training and development.
• Key to our success is working with our residents, partners, businesses and organisations and building these partnerships to bring about change in Barnsley.

About the Post:

Barnsley is expanding its children’s residential offer as part of the Children in Care Sufficiency Strategy 2026 to 2030, opening three new homes to give more of our children in care a home in Barnsley rather than an out of area placement.

We’re recruiting our first Registered Manager to lead one of these homes from the ground up, the first of three appointments across the programme. You’ll be closely involved in getting the service ready to open, not just running it once established, and your experience will help shape how the other two homes are set up as they follow.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll provide leadership and overall management of the home, ensuring it meets all standards and legislative requirements including The Children's Homes (England) Regulations. You’ll develop the staffing rota, recruit your team in line with safe recruitment practice, and manage staff through regular supervision, PDRs and training. You’ll produce and implement the home’s service plan, manage the home's budget, and make sure record-keeping systems are in place and properly maintained.

You’ll represent the service in internal and external settings, build working relationships with other agencies and the local community, and participate in planning meetings and case reviews, including chairing them and preparing reports where needed. You’ll report to the Service Manager for the residential portfolio, alongside the teams developing the other two homes, so there’s genuine scope to influence how the wider service takes shape.

What we’re looking for

• A Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management in Residential Childcare (or equivalent), or a commitment to work towards this.
• Substantial experience working in a social care setting with children and young people, including at management level within a residential setting
• Experience managing and supervising staff, and managing budgets
• Experience working in partnership with other agencies, children, young people and parents
• Experience managing change in the work environment
• Sound knowledge of the SCCIF and relevant legislation, national policy on looked after children, and Ofsted requirements for residential care
• Knowledge of safeguarding policies and procedures, and of children and young people’s developmental and emotional needs

Why this role

You’d be the first Registered Manager on a new programme, with real input into how the home operates rather than fitting into something already fixed. It’s a chance to build a team and a service around the children who’ll live there, and to help set the standard the other two homes follow.

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