Arbour Healthcare Group
Registered Manager - Children's Residential Homes
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Salary: From £65,000 depending on experience.
Rooted in Care. Giving Change a Chance.
Join Arbour Healthcare Group and lead two specialist solo-occupancy children’s homes where strong leadership, trauma-informed care and meaningful outcomes genuinely matter.
What you will receive
- Company-funded Level 5 qualification, where required
- Private medical insurance
- Enhanced annual leave
- Company pension and sick pay
- Health and wellbeing programme
- Free parking and meals while on shift
- Employee and retail discounts
- Company events to "let your hair down"
- Bespoke training in trauma-informed care, safeguarding and residential childcare
- Leadership development and progression opportunities
- A supportive senior leadership structure
- The opportunity to shape a home, develop a team and positively change a young person’s life
About Arbour Healthcare Group
We provide specialist residential care for children and young people with complex emotional, behavioural and learning needs, often shaped by trauma and disrupted relationships.
Our work is not simply about managing behaviour. It is about understanding the story behind it, creating safety, building trust and helping young people believe that change is possible.
Our RESET Care Model means Reassure, Empower, Support, Educate and Transition. It guides how care, leadership and decision-making should show up every day.
The role
As Registered Children’s Home Manager, you will be responsible for the safe, effective, compliant and financially responsible running of the home.
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This is a visible, hands-on leadership role. You will lead from the front, remain close to practice and ensure the home provides consistent, child-centred care that meets Ofsted requirements and Arbour Healthcare Group’s standards.
Your responsibilities will include:
- As Registered Children’s Home Manager, you will lead the day-to-day operation of the home with visibility, purpose and accountability, ensuring it remains safe, nurturing, well-organised and consistently inspection-ready.
- You will embed our RESET Care Model and trauma-informed approach into everyday practice, while leading confidently on safeguarding, child protection and professional curiosity.
- You will manage, supervise and develop the Deputy Manager and wider care team, maintaining strong standards across rotas, staffing, supervision, appraisals, training and performance.
- You will ensure care plans, risk assessments and placement plans remain current, meaningful and effective, while driving positive outcomes for young people across education, health, relationships, emotional wellbeing, independence and life skills.
- You will build trusted partnerships with families, social workers, schools, health professionals, commissioners and other agencies, and you will lead calmly and decisively through incidents, safeguarding concerns and crisis situations.
- Alongside managing the home’s budget and resources responsibly, you will maintain accurate digital records, lead audits and quality-assurance activity, drive continuous improvement and ensure the service is always prepared for inspection.
- You will also participate in the on-call rota and lead a meaningful Progress Project that provides clear evidence of positive change in a young person’s life.
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What we are looking for
You will need:
- At least two years’ experience working in residential childcare within the last five years
- At least one year’s experience in a senior role, such as Team Leader or Deputy Manager
- A Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services, or a commitment to achieve it
- Strong safeguarding and safer-care knowledge
- A sound understanding of Ofsted and/or CIW regulations and inspection expectations
- Experience leading, supervising and developing staff
- The confidence to manage incidents, risk and crisis situations
- Strong written, verbal and digital skills
- Flexibility to support the needs of the service, including on-call, evenings and weekends where required
If you are an experienced residential childcare leader who wants to build something meaningful and help young people reset the direction of their lives, apply now.
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