Panacea Children's Home
Registered Manager (Children's Home EBD)
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Company Description
Panacea Children’s Home is a small, therapeutic two-bed children’s home in East Tilbury supporting children with emotional and behavioural needs.
Our approach is built around three core outcomes: stability, trust and progress. We aim to provide consistent, trauma-informed and relationship-based care that helps children feel safe, develop positive relationships and make meaningful progress.
We are strengthening our leadership team and are looking for an experienced, values-led Registered Manager who has the knowledge, confidence and energy to help establish and lead an excellent home from the outset.
Role Description
The Registered Manager will have overall responsibility for the day-to-day leadership and management of the home.
Working closely with the Responsible Individual, the successful candidate will lead the home through the Ofsted registration process and ensure that the service operates safely, effectively and in accordance with the Children’s Homes Regulations, Quality Standards and relevant statutory guidance.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Leading the home’s Ofsted registration and readiness activity.
- Providing strong, visible and child-centred leadership.
- Ensuring children receive safe, consistent and high-quality care.
- Maintaining compliance with the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, the Quality Standards and the Social Care Common Inspection Framework.
- Implementing the home’s Statement of Purpose, policies and therapeutic model.
- Leading care planning, risk assessment, safeguarding and behaviour-support practice.
- Ensuring incidents, complaints, missing episodes and safeguarding concerns are managed, reviewed and reported appropriately.
- Recruiting, supervising, developing and retaining a competent staff team.
- Promoting reflective practice, professional development and a positive safeguarding culture.
- Maintaining effective quality-assurance, auditing and monitoring systems.
- Working collaboratively with social workers, families, education providers, health professionals, police and other agencies.
- Managing rotas and resources while ensuring staffing arrangements reflect the needs and risks of the children.
- Participating in the management on-call rota.
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About us
Panacea Children’s Home is a small, therapeutic 2-bed EBD home in East Tilbury. Our mission is simple: stability, trust, progress. We’re strengthening leadership ahead of registration and are recruiting a Registered Manager with the right experience, values and energy to build an excellent home from day one.
About you (essential)
- A Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (England), or a recognised equivalent.
- At least two years’ recent experience working in a children’s residential care setting.
- At least 12 months’ experience supervising or managing staff within a children’s residential service, ideally as a Deputy Manager or Registered Manager.
- Strong working knowledge of the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, the Quality Standards and relevant statutory guidance.
- A good understanding of safeguarding, Working Together to Safeguard Children and Ofsted’s inspection framework for children’s homes.
- Experience of care planning, risk management, safeguarding investigations, incident management and complaints handling.
- The ability to lead and develop a staff team through supervision, coaching, performance management and reflective practice.
- Strong written communication, report-writing and record-keeping skills.
- Confidence working with local authorities, social workers and other external professionals.
- Calm, accountable and child-centred decision-making.
- The ability to demonstrate integrity, resilience and sound professional judgement.
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Desirable Experience
It would be advantageous to have:
- Previous experience as an Ofsted Registered Manager.
- Experience successfully achieving or maintaining a Good or Outstanding Ofsted judgement.
- Experience establishing a new children’s home or taking a service through the Ofsted registration process.
- Experience supporting children with complex emotional, behavioural, attachment or trauma-related needs.
- Experience implementing a therapeutic or trauma-informed model of care.
- Knowledge of Regulation 44 monitoring, Regulation 45 quality-of-care reviews and workforce development planning.
The Person we are Looking for
We are looking for a manager who:
- Is ambitious for children and genuinely committed to improving their lives.
- Can combine warmth and compassion with clear professional boundaries.
- Creates stability and consistency for both children and the staff team.
- Leads by example and takes responsibility for standards within the home.
- Can build a positive culture based on safeguarding, reflection, learning and accountability.
- Is comfortable working in a developing service and helping shape its systems, culture and practice.
- Shares our commitment to stability, trust and progress.
Safer Recruitment
Panacea Children’s Home is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
The successful applicant will be subject to a robust safer-recruitment process, including an enhanced DBS check, verification of employment history and qualifications, references, identity and right-to-work checks, and other checks required under the Children’s Homes Regulations.
Appointment will also be subject to the candidate being assessed as suitable to manage the home and successfully completing the relevant Ofsted registration process.
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