Dual Homes Registered Manager – Children’s Residential Care
Role: Dual Homes Registered Manager
Lead Two Homes. Shape Two Futures. Transform Young Lives.
Are you an experienced children’s residential care leader ready to take the next step in your career?
Do you have the vision, resilience and leadership skills to create two outstanding homes where children and young people feel safe, valued, connected and able to thrive?
At Excel Solutions Group Ltd and Emerge Care & Therapeutic Solutions Ltd, we believe that exceptional care starts with exceptional leadership.
Our homes are built around our core values of Voice, Connection, Growth and Inclusion, underpinned by our Roots to Wings therapeutic model. We provide trauma-informed care that recognises each child’s experiences, celebrates their strengths and supports them to build the confidence and skills they need for their future.
We are looking for an ambitious and values-driven Dual Homes Registered Manager to provide strategic and operational leadership across two children’s residential homes.
This is an exciting opportunity for a strong Registered Manager who wants greater responsibility, autonomy and influence — while remaining firmly focused on achieving the best outcomes for children.
Your Mission
As Dual Homes Registered Manager, you will have overall responsibility for the leadership, safeguarding, quality, compliance and performance of two residential children's homes.
You will create consistency across both homes while ensuring that each home retains its own identity, culture and understanding of the children it supports.
You will:
- Lead, inspire and develop two high-performing residential care teams.
- Ensure both homes consistently meet the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015, Ofsted Quality Standards and safeguarding requirements.
- Act as a strong safeguarding leader and ensure children’s welfare remains at the heart of every decision.
- Embed our Roots to Wings therapeutic approach across both homes.
- Maintain strong oversight of care planning, risk management, safeguarding, staffing and placement stability.
- Lead managers and senior staff to deliver excellent day-to-day practice.
- Develop a culture where staff feel confident, accountable and supported.
- Monitor budgets, resources, staffing levels and operational performance across both homes.
- Build effective partnerships with social workers, education providers, health professionals, families and other agencies.
- Lead audits, quality assurance and continuous improvement across both services.
- Use data, feedback, incidents, complaints and children's experiences to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare both homes for Ofsted inspection and drive continuous progress towards Outstanding practice.
- Ensure children's voices genuinely influence the care they receive and the way each home operates.
- Participate in the organisation’s on-call arrangements.
More Than Management — Leadership That Matters
This role isn't simply about running two buildings.
It's about creating two cultures where children can flourish.
You will be visible, emotionally intelligent and purposeful in your leadership. You will know when to challenge, when to coach and when to listen.
You will empower your teams to think therapeutically, work reflectively and remain curious about what sits behind a child's behaviour.
Most importantly, you will help create homes where children experience:
Safety. Belonging. Stability. Hope. Opportunity.
What We're Looking For
You will be an experienced children's residential care leader with the confidence and capability to lead at a senior level.
Essential
- Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare.
- Significant experience within children's residential care.
- Previous experience as a Registered Manager or in a substantial senior management role.
- Strong knowledge of the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and Ofsted Quality Standards.
- Excellent safeguarding knowledge and leadership capability.
- Experience of managing teams, performance and professional development.
- Experience of quality assurance, auditing and service improvement.
- Strong operational, organisational and financial management skills.
- Experience working effectively with social care, education, health and other professional networks.
- A strong understanding of trauma-informed and therapeutic approaches.
- The ability to lead with resilience, accountability, compassion and integrity.
- Flexibility to participate in on-call arrangements.
- Enhanced DBS clearance and satisfactory pre-employment checks.
- The legal right to work in the UK at the time of application.
We’d Love to Meet You If…
You are someone who:
- Believes children deserve more than good care — they deserve exceptional care.
- Can turn a vision into everyday practice.
- Builds teams that are confident, capable and compassionate.
- Is not afraid to challenge poor practice.
- Can balance warmth with professional accountability.
- Enjoys developing people and seeing them grow.
- Thinks creatively when faced with complex challenges.
- Wants to make a genuine difference rather than simply manage a service.
- Is ambitious about achieving excellent outcomes for children.
What We Offer
We want our leaders to have the support, development and autonomy to succeed.
You will receive:
- Competitive salary and leadership allowances.
- Leadership responsibility across two homes.
- A comprehensive induction into our therapeutic, trauma-informed approach.
- Training and development around our Roots to Wings model.
- Leadership coaching and senior management development.
- Access to our Knowledge Nest, with therapeutic resources, practice tools and development materials.
- Monthly clinical input and reflective supervision.
- Funded qualifications and continuing professional development.
- Structured career progression, including opportunities to progress towards Regional Manager and wider senior leadership positions.
- A supportive leadership team and values-driven organisational culture.
- A genuine opportunity to influence the development and future direction of both homes.
Your Impact Starts Here
Imagine joining an organisation where your leadership isn't measured only by paperwork, occupancy or compliance.
It's measured by the child who begins to trust adults again.
The young person who starts believing in themselves.
The team member who discovers their potential.
The home that becomes somewhere a child finally feels they belong.
That's the difference you can make.
Pay: From £55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Referral programme
Work Location: In person
