Registered Manager -Residential Children's Services

Registered Manager – Children's Residential Home  

Location: The Drive Children's Home, Redbridge.
Salary: From £45, 510 (Pay Grade B)

Additional allowances are paid for on-call duties.
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Closing Date: 17^th October 2025

Shortlisting Date: 20^th October 2025

Date of Interviews: 30^th and 31^st October, 6^th and 7^th November 2025

Changing Childhoods. Changing Lives.

We're looking for a dedicated and experienced Registered Manager to lead one of our children's residential homes, providing safe, nurturing, and empowering care for children with complex needs.

This is a unique opportunity to shape a home where children feel valued, supported, and heard—and where staff are inspired to deliver outstanding care.

If you're a thoughtful leader who thrives in a team, supports others to grow, and puts children's voices at the heart of everything, we'd love to hear from you.

What Young People Say

• “The staff are the best thing about this place” – Young person, age 14
• “I like my bedroom and the sensory room” – Young person, age 16

These voices guide our practice. You'll help ensure children's views shape the daily life and culture of the home.

What You'll Do

• Lead and manage the day-to-day operations of the home in line with Ofsted regulations.
• Create a child-centred culture that promotes safety, emotional wellbeing, and positive outcomes.
• Model and embed DDP and PACE principles in daily practice
• Supervise and support staff to deliver trauma-informed care
• Act as the Designated Safeguarding Lead, ensuring robust safeguarding practices.
• Recruit, develop, and support a high-performing staff team.
• Drive continuous improvement and ensure compliance with Children's Homes Regulations and Quality Standards.
• Champion the voice of the child in all aspects of care and planning.

What You'll Bring

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (or equivalent).
• Minimum 2 years' experience in a leadership role within a children's residential setting.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, trauma-informed care, and regulatory compliance.
• Passionate, resilient, and committed to making a difference.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and organisational skills.

What We Offer

• Comprehensive training and development
• Access to regular supervision and wellbeing support
• A values-driven organisation with a commitment to excellence
• Opportunities to grow into senior leadership roles
• A chance to help shape an Outstanding future for children

Ready to Apply?

If you're ready to support with purpose and lead with compassion, we'd love to hear from you.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people. 

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. 

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application. 

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.  

Our basis and values