Job RoleREGISTERED HOME MANAGER
Salary: £50,000- £55,000per annum PLUS BONUS
Working Pattern: Full-time 40 hours a week to include some weekends.
Location: Bournemouth near to Kings Park
Interviews begin the week commencing 3rd November 2025
Email CV and covering letter
Exciting opportunity to help open a new Childrens Home in Bournemouth. Pinelands Therapeutic Childrens Home is an independent privately run home for 8-17 year olds. Our role is to provide a home for vulnerable and complex young people who find themselves in residential care for a magnitude of reasons, often completely out of their control and/or comprehension. We believe it not only keeps our young people safe and away from harm, we want to grow and develop and build brighter futures for all of the young people in our care.
It is important that you understand your role as a Home Manager and spend as much time as possible learning about and understanding your role within the home. It's not the individual that makes the difference in the long-term changes to a young person, it's the continuity that's provided through rigorous care planning, therapeutic interventions and understanding that the consistency of the team approach is what builds the brighter futures for all of our young people. Ideally to get the ball rolling in setting up, while working your notice. Bring your ideas and come and join our team!
Job Role:
Leadership & Management
To provide leadership & management to all staff and ensure you deliver the highest possible
quality of care within a safe working and living environment.
To be a positive and effective role model for all employees, being approachable and providing a
regular presence within the home, as well as being consistent in all actions and decisions.
To set and maintain clear standards of care within the home in line with compliance
expectations and under guidance and support of the compliance manager.
To lead and manage a team of staff, understanding that others may have different views or ways
of doing things. Promote tolerance and acceptance and raise any issues in an appropriate forum.
To understand the importance of the shift pattern and on-call mechanisms, and being available
as required
Understanding that not turning up to work or confusing the rota or shift pattern can cause
serious harm and confusion within the team
You will make sure that any poor behaviour or conduct from colleagues is reported via the
correct channels using our whistle blowing policy and procedures as guidance
You must work collectively with your team, this may/will mean that your own values and beliefs
must be put to one side so that frameworks and care planning can be delivered consistently
To develop a culture of continuous quality improvement following guidance and support from
the compliance manager.
To maintain a comprehensive induction process for all new employees to ensure they are
effectively introduced to the Home, young people, team and to deliver systems and procedures, and
good practices in conjunction with CPD and organisational and policy and procedures.
Ensure that organisation codes of professional conduct and other policy guidance relating to
professional practices are always followed.
Take responsibility and accountability for the delivery of professional, competent, and
high-quality care.
To conduct regular reviews with new employees during their probationary period, managing
progress and shortfalls, and to always conduct the six-monthly review to confirm the appointment.
To ensure all staff are annually appraised and that required standards of performance are being
achieved, to manage under-performance / shortfalls through objective setting and regular reviews,
and that regular supervisions occur in line with company policy.
To ensure complaints and suggestions are positively actioned and dealt with correctly.
To identify individual service needs in line with the homes annual development plan, the
workforce development plan. Monitoring & reviewing employees performance, arranging training
and evaluating their effectiveness, and ensuring that staff have completed the required training each
year.
To facilitate and hold regular staff, young people, and stakeholders' consultations, to provide
and receive feedback, and administer the questionnaires provided as part of the companys Quality
Assurance Systems.
Main Duties - In the Home
To ensure that agreed quality assurances initiatives are implemented within the home.
Liaise with regulators and local authorities to ensure satisfactory standards are maintained
To provide improvement, independence, and choice for all young people, making sure they are
always treated with dignity.
To manage the effective use of resources and maintain full occupancy.
To always comply with all regulatory requirements and in particular the Regulations for the
Registration and Inspection of Childrens Residential Homes.
To ensure policy and procedures are implemented and understood by all the staff to ensure the
highest standard of care.
Engage with our Wellbeing Services to ensure all of our young people get access to therapeutic
interventions & support.
To ensure that the home meets the individual needs of the young people as well as the needs of
the home. (Homely environment with high standards of décor)
To maintain the schedule of maintenance in line with health and safety expectations.
Main Duties Care planning
To ensure that all children & young people have an up-date care plan, which is regularly
evaluated and actively involves them in the preparation.
To ensure all risks associated with care e.g., moving and handling, mobility, challenging
behaviour are identified and correctly actioned.
To regularly monitor the delivery of care given by all staff ensuring that the physical, social,
psychological and emotional needs of the young people are recognised, assessed and met.
To ensure the Home and its processes are fully compliant with the legislative regulatory
framework, and that young people are empowered to make choices where able, and where not best
interest decisions are made on their behalf involving all those necessary.
To ensure that there is a regular programme of activities, which are arranged in line with the
young peoples interests and needs.
To ensure the young people receive a varied, balanced nutritional diet and menus are recorded.
To ensure a named key worker key and worker system is in place for all the young people to
facilitate, oversee and update care planning records.
To ensure the quality assurance systems and contract monitoring reflects the standard of
service provision expected.
To arrange regular reviews and communications/consultations with Social Workers, young
people, Relatives and Key Workers.
To follow the admission policy and procedures and conduct a pre-admission
assessment/matching for all potential young people, when managing referrals, with support and
guidance from the area manager/referrals and placements manager.
To meet professional and legal responsibilities for managing the storage, handling and
administration of medications in the home.
To meet professional and legal responsibilities for managing the administration, storage and
safety of finances and petty cash in the home. Including managing the home's budgets.
To always ensure the protection and safety of young people, which requires conducting regular
health and safety checks and checks that the fire alarms & safety systems and procedures are always
fully functional.
To be responsible for completing the staff rota and ensuring that the staffing ratio meets the
needs of the young people
To ensure that all annual leave requests are coordinated in line with policy, to prevent
disruption in the home.
To monitor and manage sickness and absence by always conducting back to work interviews and
correctly applying company policy.
To carry out the duties set by The Responsible Individual and ensure that the home
complies with all statutory obligations and relevant legislation (e.g. environmental health, health &
safety and fire regulations). To meet professional and legal responsibilities with Health and Safety
issues and ensure that all monitoring requirements are met.
To participate in safer recruitment, selection, and retention of staff, with support from the
director.
To liaise effectively with the company director, building good working relationships, as required
for the good operation of the Home.
To ensure that all young people have a copy of the young peoples handbook and that all the
necessary funding and care plan documents are completed.
External relationships and partnerships working
To attend Managers Meetings or other meetings as and when required.
To establish and maintain good relationships with relatives and friends of the young people,
referring agencies/Local authorities, the local community and any other parties with whom The
Pinelands Therapeutic Childrens home works collaboratively with.
To report within 24 hours of its occurrence any serious incident which affects the wellbeing of
the young people to the Local Authority, Ofsted and other relevant bodies.
To always welcome and be courteous to all visitors to the home, ensuring safeguard procedures
are followed and upheld.
To carry out audits where required and manage and complete any quality assurances required
by the company, including Managers Monthly Quality Review. Any other duties that may reasonably
fall within the scope of this post, as may be required from time to time and share information as
required.
Main Duties Policies
To understand the legal requirements of Ofsted and the Regulations and other legislations and
ensure the home complies with Quality Standards, and whatever legislation or relevant standards
that may be in force at any time.
To personally have a full understanding and working knowledge of all policies and procedures
and ensure that all these policies are always applied.
To promote, practice and represent our company ethos, values and expectations at all time
Personal Specification
You will be Resilient, kind, caring, professional and understanding, even when challenging
situations occur. We are here to support young people in their time of need, when they are at their
worst. This will also reflect any staff /team challenges being managed.
To seek and use utilise the Wellbeing resources available as necessary to support such
challenges
Training & Experience
To successfully register with our regulatory body Ofsted.
To hold DSL within the home and operate as the Designated Safeguard Lead, managing all
safeguard reporting and procedures in line with company policy, LA policy and regulatory
expectations.
Regular Supervisions from our Senior Management Team and Wellbeing Service to support your
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Physical Intervention and Behaviour Management Training (At times and as a last resort, you
may need to use physical intervention to keep young people safe from themselves and to keep other
young people, yourself and your colleagues safe.)
Mandatory training required to be kept up-to-date.
Continuous competency review monitoring by the manager.
At least 3 years experience within a childrens home of leading, supervising and managing a
team of staff is required.
Hold a completed Level 5 diploma in Leadership & Management.
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