Registered Manager – Flagship 2-Bed Learning Disability Children's Home
Location: Loughborough, Leicestershire
Salary: £60,000 – £70,000 per annum
Annual Leave: Enhanced annual leave entitlement
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Service: Registered 2-Bed Learning Disability Children's Home
About Aamanah Care Group
Aamanah Care Group is a specialist children's residential care provider focused on supporting children and young people with learning disabilities and complex individual needs.
We currently operate two specialist Learning Disability residential services, with an ambitious plan to expand our provision across the Midlands and the North of England.
Our aim is to build a respected specialist LD residential group where children receive highly individualised care, strong therapeutic relationships, consistent boundaries and opportunities to develop independence, confidence and life skills.
As part of this next phase of growth, we are looking for an exceptional Registered Manager to lead our flagship service in Loughborough.
The Opportunity
This is an opportunity to take leadership of an already registered and operational 2-bed Learning Disability children's home.
The successful candidate will not be joining a service that is waiting to open or complete registration. You will be taking responsibility for an established, registered home and will be expected to provide strong operational leadership, maintain excellent regulatory standards and continue developing the service.
As our flagship home, you will play an important role in demonstrating what excellent specialist LD residential care looks like within Aamanah Care Group.
You will have the autonomy to lead your team, develop the service and contribute to the wider direction of the organisation as we expand.
What We Are Looking For
This is a senior appointment and we are looking for an experienced Registered Manager who can demonstrate a proven track record of successfully managing a children's residential service.
Essential Requirements
- Previous experience as a Registered Manager of a children's home
- A strong understanding of children's residential care and Ofsted regulation
- Experience supporting children and young people with Learning Disabilities
- A demonstrable track record of effective service management
- Strong knowledge of the Children's Homes Regulations and Quality Standards
- Strong safeguarding knowledge and practice
- Experience managing and developing residential care teams
- Experience with care planning, risk management and safeguarding processes
- Strong understanding of safer recruitment, supervision, training and staff development
- Excellent communication and leadership skills
- Ability to manage budgets, resources and operational performance
- Ability to build positive relationships with placing authorities, families, professionals and other stakeholders
- A strong understanding of what good leadership looks like within an Ofsted-regulated children's home
Previous Ofsted Performance
Applicants must have previously held Registered Manager responsibility for a children's home and must be able to demonstrate a previous Ofsted outcome of Good or Outstanding in a Registered Manager role.
We are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate that they have personally contributed to achieving and maintaining high regulatory standards.
Candidates whose previous experience has primarily been at Deputy Manager or Senior level, without having held Registered Manager responsibility, will not meet the essential criteria for this position.
Your Responsibilities
As Registered Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the effective day-to-day management and development of the home.
Your responsibilities will include:
Leadership & Management
- Provide visible, confident and effective leadership to the home
- Develop a strong, motivated and accountable staff team
- Create a positive culture centred around the needs and outcomes of the children
- Ensure staff understand and consistently implement children's care plans and risk assessments
- Lead regular supervision, team meetings and performance management
- Identify training and development requirements
- Maintain appropriate staffing levels and ensure effective rota management
Care & Outcomes
- Ensure children receive safe, nurturing and highly individualised care
- Promote independence, development and positive outcomes
- Ensure care planning is person-centred and regularly reviewed
- Monitor children's progress and ensure their views, wishes and feelings remain central to care
- Ensure behavioural and risk management approaches are appropriate and consistently implemented
- Work closely with education, health, social care and other professionals
Safeguarding & Compliance
- Maintain the highest standards of safeguarding practice
- Ensure compliance with the Children's Homes Regulations and Quality Standards
- Maintain effective records, audits and monitoring systems
- Ensure incidents, complaints, safeguarding concerns and significant events are appropriately managed and reported
- Prepare the service for regulatory scrutiny and inspections
- Work constructively with Ofsted and external professionals
- Ensure recommendations from monitoring and inspection activity are acted upon effectively
Service Development
As the flagship Aamanah Care Group service, you will also contribute to the continued development of our specialist LD model.
You will be expected to:
- Identify opportunities to improve the service
- Develop best practice within Learning Disability residential care
- Support the development of systems and processes that can be replicated across future homes
- Contribute to organisational learning and service development
- Share effective practice with other Aamanah Care Group services
- Support the organisation's future expansion across the Midlands and North
The Person
We are looking for someone who is ambitious, experienced and values-led.
You will be confident enough to lead a service independently, but collaborative enough to work closely with the wider Aamanah Care Group leadership team.
You will understand that excellent residential care is about more than compliance. It is about creating an environment where children feel safe, respected, understood and able to make meaningful progress.
You will be:
- A confident and credible leader
- Calm under pressure
- Professionally curious and improvement-focused
- Highly organised
- Strong on safeguarding and accountability
- Passionate about Learning Disability services
- Comfortable challenging poor practice
- Able to develop and retain high-performing teams
- Committed to achieving excellent outcomes for children
- Commercially and operationally aware
- Comfortable working within a growing organisation
Why Join Aamanah Care Group?
This is an opportunity to join an organisation at an exciting stage of its development.
You will be joining a provider with two specialist LD services already established, with further expansion planned across the Midlands and North.
You will have the opportunity to:
- Lead an already registered 2-bed specialist LD children's home
- Take ownership of our flagship service
- Work alongside an experienced senior leadership team
- Influence the future development of Aamanah Care Group
- Help shape our specialist Learning Disability model
- Contribute to the development of future services
- Develop your own leadership career as the organisation grows
- Be part of a provider focused specifically on specialist LD residential care
What We Offer
- £60,000 – £70,000 salary, depending on experience and suitability
- Enhanced annual leave
- Permanent, full-time position
- Leadership responsibility for an already registered 2-bed LD service
- Support from the wider Aamanah Care Group leadership team
- Opportunities for professional development and progression
- Opportunity to influence future service development and expansion
- A senior role within a growing specialist children's residential provider
Qualifications
The successful candidate will be expected to hold an appropriate qualification for managing a children's home, in accordance with current regulatory requirements.
Candidates must also be able to demonstrate the experience and competence required to undertake Registered Manager responsibilities.
Recruitment & Selection
As part of our safer recruitment process, successful applicants will be required to undergo appropriate checks, including:
- Enhanced DBS and relevant suitability checks
- Employment history verification
- References
- Right to Work checks
- Qualification verification
- Previous Ofsted/regulatory employment history checks
- Other checks required in accordance with safer recruitment procedures
The Opportunity in One Sentence
If you are an experienced children's home Registered Manager with a proven Good or Outstanding Ofsted track record and you want to help shape a growing specialist Learning Disability provider, this could be your next leadership opportunity.
Apply
We are looking for a high-calibre Registered Manager who wants more than simply to manage a home — someone who wants to lead, develop and help shape a specialist organisation as it grows.
Aamanah Care Group Ltd
Specialist Learning Disability Children's Residential Care
Pay: £60,000.00-£70,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
Work Location: In person
