Ready to lead a service that makes a real difference? If you're passionate about supporting children and young people—and driven to create safe, nurturing environments where they can thrive—this could be the perfect opportunity for you. We're looking for a dedicated and compassionate Registered Manager to lead our Emotional Wellbeing Assessment Home. This is a full-time, permanent role suited to someone who embraces challenge, leads with empathy, and is committed to delivering high-quality care and support.
If you're motivated, resilient, and ready to shape a service that truly transforms lives—we'd love to hear from you.
Location of the post: Coalville, Leicestershire.
Marjorie House is designed to support children and young people aged 8 to 18 who present with a complex range of risks and behaviours. This specialist service offers short-term placements for up to three young people at a time, providing a safe and nurturing environment where their needs can be fully understood and addressed.
At Marjorie House, young people are given opportunities to explore new experiences, build meaningful friendships, and develop key life skills—including confidence, independence, and emotional and social resilience.
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
1. Leading and managing a team of residential support workers, including coordinating staffing rotas to ensure consistent, high-quality care.
2. Collaborating with the Local Authority to support effective matching and placement of young people.
3. Creating a positive culture and ethos that meets the complex needs of the children and young people.
4. Quality assuring transition plans to ensure they are ambitious and tailored to help children achieve their full potential.
5. Facilitating regular team meetings to share information, support practice development, and escalate issues to the management team for resolution.
6. Representing the service at formal meetings, including acting on behalf of the Children's Services Manager when required.
7. Participating in on-call duties, rota cover, and out-of-hours support as needed.
8. Working alongside the recruitment team to ensure effective recruitment and onboarding of staff.
Essential Requirements:
To be considered for this role, your application must demonstrate:
9. A valid UK driver's licence.
10. A Level 3 qualification relevant to Residential Childcare.
11. A Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health & Social Care and Children & Young People's Services, or a willingness to work towards it.
12. At least 3 years' experience working with children (within the last 5 years), including a minimum of 1 year in a senior supervisory or management role within a residential setting.
13. Strong knowledge and experience of OFSTED Regulations and Quality Standards for Children's Homes, with the ability to drive the service towards an “Outstanding” rating.
14. Proven ability in safeguarding practices, including accurate recording and reporting to protect children and young people.
About the Service:
Barnardo's, the UK's largest children's charity, is proud to be working in partnership with Leicestershire County Council on an innovative journey to deliver a range of children's homes for the most vulnerable children and young people in the region.
While this home will be your primary base, flexibility to travel across Leicestershire to support other homes may be required from time to time.
For more information about this role, please contact Sarah Wilkins -
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's . 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 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.
Benefits
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.
15. 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.
16. 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
17. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
18. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
19. Service related sick pay from day 1
20. 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
21. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
22. Cycle2work scheme
23. Interest free season ticket loans
24. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
25. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
26. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
27. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
28. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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