Registered Manager - Children’s Residential Service

Liquid Personnel is recruiting a compassionate and experienced Registered Manager for its client’s Children’s Residential Service based in Swindon.
This role involves leading a brand-new, trauma-informed therapeutic children’s service designed to provide a safe, nurturing, and family-style home for vulnerable young people. With capacity for just 4–5 children, the service aims to feel like a true home—where everyday moments such as mealtimes, homework, and shared activities become opportunities for healing and growth.
If you’re passionate about creating a warm, emotionally supportive environment and delivering exceptional care, we’d love to hear from you.

What will your responsibilities be?

• Lead the development and delivery of a brand-new service from the ground up
• Ensure compliance with Ofsted regulations and high standards of care
• Implement trauma-informed approaches such as PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, Empathy)
• Oversee assessments and create tailored care plans for each child
• Recruit, train, and inspire a skilled and compassionate team
• Foster a culture of trust, emotional safety, and connection

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Your birthday off, every year
• Access to our Active Learning Hub for training and development
• Discounts and savings via the Active Reward App
• Free 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (legal, health, wellbeing & more)
• Nest Personal Pension scheme
• Medicash Health Plan for everyday health costs
• Recognition through our Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay
• Refer-a-Friend bonus up to £1,500
• Support from experienced clinical and business leadership teams

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have, 

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare
• Proven experience in trauma-informed care settings
• Strong understanding of Ofsted regulations and best practices
• Passion for child-centred care and emotional wellbeing
• Excellent leadership and team-building skills
• Enhanced DBS clearance (required)
  We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer, committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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