Compass Associates
Regional Training Manager - South | Children’s Residential Services
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Regional Training Manager - South | Children’s Residential Services
£45,000 p.a
Remote with travel
Full Time Permanent
Do you have L&D leadership experience working within children’s residential care?
Would you like to join one of the UK’s leading social care providers?
Compass Associates are proud to be working in an exclusive partnership with a leading social care organisation. They are currently seeking an experienced Regional Training Manager to join their children's services division, as the regional lead for their L&D function across services throughout the South of the UK.
The successful candidate will play a key role in driving a strong learning culture, ensuring high standards of compliance through the delivery of high-quality training programmes across their children’s services. You will lead and support a team of L&D Partners, ensuring all learning activity aligns with regulatory requirements, organisational objectives, and sector best practice.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced L&D professional with a strong background in children’s social care to join a high-performing team and make a significant impact across their services.
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Responsibilities:
- Lead and line manage a regional team of L&D Partners, overseeing performance, development, workload allocation, onboarding, and compliance records.
- Drive quality assurance across training delivery through observations, feedback, coaching, evaluation analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Ensure training provision meets regulatory and sector standards, including Restraint Reduction Network, BILD accreditation, and Ofsted SCCIF expectations.
- Act as the regional L&D lead, partnering with operational, QA, HR, and clinical teams to deliver responsive, needs-led learning solutions.
- Support the design and implementation of bespoke training programmes aligned with service needs, quality findings, and organisational objectives.
- Deliver core and specialist training sessions to maintain subject expertise, support delivery targets, and model best-practice facilitation.
- Monitor regional L&D performance through data analysis, reporting, feedback trends, and recommendations to improve effectiveness.
- Support budget management, resource planning, external audits, inspections, and ongoing compliance with organisational policies.
- Maintain personal and team CPD requirements, promoting professional development, innovation, and reflective learning practices.
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Requirements:
- Significant experience in training or L&D for a children’s residential service provider (essential)
- Excellent knowledge of regulatory frameworks, including Ofsted, SCCIF and CQC
- Strong knowledge of quality assurance processes including observation, evaluation and moderation
- Relevant teaching/training qualification (Cert Ed, PGCE, AET, CET etc) is desirable
- Experience using various digital learning platforms
- Full UK driving licence and flexibility to travel regionally and nationally as required
If you would like to be considered for this exciting opportunity, please contact Simon Codling directly on 0161 241 7686. Alternatively, email an updated CV to scodling@compassltd.co.uk
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