Lily Residential Services
Senior Registered Manager – Therapeutic Children’s Residential Care
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Senior Registered Manager – Therapeutic Children’s Residential Care
Weymouth | Dorchester | Yeovil
Earning potential up to £75,000 per annum
About the Role
As Lily Services Group continues to grow and raise standards in therapeutic residential care across Dorset, Poole, and Somerset, we are looking for experienced and ambitious Senior Registered Managers to join our existing and developing children’s homes.
We operate a diverse range of residential services, including:
- Specialist therapeutic solo placements
- Two-bed and three-bed children’s homes
- Four-bed therapeutic homes
- Specialist provision for children with neurodiverse needs
- Trauma-informed and emotionally and behaviourally focused therapeutic care
- Specialist preparation homes for younger children
- Services supporting children as they progress towards greater independence
We are looking for experienced managers who can lead across this range of provision, build strong teams, and help shape the next stage of Lily’s development.
For the right candidate, this is an opportunity to take a senior role within a growing organisation, with total earning potential of up to £76,000 per annum.
Your package will reflect your experience, previous Ofsted outcomes, the size and complexity of the service you manage, agreed performance objectives, and, where appropriate, responsibility for up to two small homes or a larger four-bed service.
About Us
One Lily. One Journey.
At Lily Services Group, we believe children and young people deserve consistency, stability, and strong loving relationships throughout their journey.
Our One Lily. One Journey. approach creates a connected pathway from therapeutic residential care through to supported accommodation, adulthood, and greater independence.
Our homes are designed around the individual needs of the children we support. That means different homes may have different purposes, therapeutic approaches, and levels of complexity, but they all share the same expectation:
- Safe, nurturing homes
- Strong professional practice
- Consistently high standards of loving care
As a Senior Registered Manager, you will play a key role in delivering that standard.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for creating and maintaining a high-quality therapeutic home while building a capable, confident, and professionally accountable team.
You will:
- Lead the regulatory and operational management of the home.
- Build, coach, and develop high-performing staff teams.
- Maintain excellent safeguarding, care planning, risk management, and recording standards.
- Ensure compliance with the Children’s Homes Regulations, Quality Standards, and statutory guidance.
- Prepare the home consistently for Ofsted inspection.
- Develop our New Registered Managers, Trainee Managers, and Lead Practitioners.
- Maintain strong oversight of incidents, safeguarding concerns, and professional practice.
- Build effective relationships with local authorities, families, and external professionals.
- Manage staffing, resources, and operational performance effectively.
- Support service improvement and the development of Lily’s therapeutic model.
- Contribute to the opening and development of future homes and services.
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For suitably experienced candidates, the role may include responsibility for two small homes, where this can be achieved safely and effectively.
The Person We Are Looking For
We are looking for inspirational residential childcare leaders who understand what excellent practice looks like and know how to create it.
You will be someone who can walk into a home, understand its strengths and challenges, and develop the people around you.
You will be:
- An experienced and credible leader within children’s residential care.
- Skilled at coaching, developing, and professionally challenging staff.
- Confident in creating strong team cultures and maintaining high standards.
- Comfortable holding people accountable while remaining supportive and solution-focused.
- Experienced in working with Ofsted and local authorities.
- Calm, resilient, and professionally focused during challenging situations.
- Able to turn incidents, audits, and feedback into meaningful improvement.
- Ambitious and interested in contributing to the future development of a growing organisation.
- A visible leader who understands that excellent management happens in the home, not simply behind a desk.
Experience and Qualifications
Essential
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare, or recognised equivalent.
- Significant management experience within Ofsted-regulated children’s residential care.
- At least three years’ experience in a senior residential childcare position.
- Strong knowledge of the Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards.
- Proven experience of leading and developing residential childcare teams.
- Experience of Ofsted inspection and regulatory processes.
- Strong safeguarding, care planning, and risk-management knowledge.
- Excellent leadership, organisational, and communication skills.
- Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.
- Right to work in the UK and a full five-year checkable employment history.
We are particularly interested in candidates with:
- Previous Good or Outstanding Ofsted outcomes.
- Experience as an Ofsted Registered Manager.
- Experience improving a service following a period of challenge.
- Experience opening or registering new homes.
- Experience managing complex or specialist placements.
- Experience managing more than one service.
- A strong record of developing future leaders.
- Therapeutic or trauma-informed residential childcare experience.
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Rewarding Experience and Performance
We recognise that highly experienced Registered Managers are critical to the quality and stability of children’s homes.
This role therefore offers total earning potential of up to £76,000 per annum.
Overall remuneration will reflect:
- Your management experience.
- Your previous Ofsted and regulatory track record.
- The size and complexity of the service.
- The number and needs of the children supported.
- Achievement against agreed quality and performance objectives.
- Responsibility for a larger home or, where appropriate, two small homes.
We want exceptional managers to be recognised for building exceptional services.
Grow with Lily
Our growth means there are opportunities beyond simply managing one home.
Senior Registered Managers can contribute to:
- New service development
- Practice improvement
- Quality assurance
- Leadership development
- Therapeutic practice
- Staff coaching and development
- Development of future Registered Managers
As Lily grows, we want our strongest leaders to grow with us.
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave including bank holidays, increasing to 32 days with service.
- Bupa Health Cash Plan.
- Bupa Employee Assistance Programme following probation.
- Company sick pay following probation.
- Company-funded Blue Light Card following probation.
- Paid training and continued professional development.
- Employee recognition and referral schemes.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and surrogacy leave.
- Regular team and development days.
- Opportunities for progression across Lily Services Group.
Build Something That Matters
Great managers create great teams.
Great teams create safe, stable, and nurturing homes.
And great homes can change the direction of a child’s life.
If you have already demonstrated that you can lead successful children’s homes and are ready for a senior role where your experience, leadership, and results are recognised, we would like to hear from you.
One Lily. One Journey.
Lead great homes. Develop great people. Help us build the future of therapeutic residential childcare.
Important Information
Lily Services Group does not currently offer sponsorship for this position.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and be able to provide a full five-year checkable employment history.
Appointment is subject to Lily Services Group’s safer recruitment procedures, including enhanced DBS clearance, references, and appropriate pre-employment checks.
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