Registered Manager

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Registered Manager - Tier 4 step down Service for Children (OFSTED)

Brook Street Social Care are working closely with a provider who is setting up a therapeutic community across South London. They are committed to providing safe, nurturing, and therapeutic environments where children and young people can heal, grow, and thrive. We are currently seeking a passionate and motivated Registered Manager, for a brand new Tier 4 residential home for Children.
Service Context
This home provides specialist therapeutic residential care for adolescents (12-18) presenting with complex emotional and mental health needs, including self-harm, suicidal ideation, trauma-related behaviours and autism with co-morbid mental health difficulties.
The service operates as a high-support step-down provision from CAMHS inpatient settings and aims to reduce readmission through relational containment, structured care planning and robust risk management.
The home is regulated by Ofsted under the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015.

Essential Qualifications
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management for Residential Childcare (or working towards)
Minimum 3 years' experience as a Registered Manager
Track record of leading a children's home rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted

Essential Experience
1 Complex Behaviour & Risk Management
Proven experience managing homes supporting young people who present with: Recurrent self-harm
Suicidal ideation
Emotional dysregulation
Trauma-related behaviours

Experience implementing and auditing: Self-harm reduction protocols
Environmental risk assessments
Individualised crisis and safety plans

Ability to evidence safe management of high-risk incidents

2 Ligature & Environmental Safety Oversight
Experience managing ligature reduction environments
Knowledge of: Environmental risk grading
Adaptive risk management without creating institutional settings

Ability to balance therapeutic homeliness with safety compliance
Experience reviewing incident patterns and environmental modifications

3 Restrictive Practice & Deprivation of Liberty
Strong understanding of: Regulation 16 (Restraint & Restriction of Liberty)
Distinction between restriction, restraint and deprivation of liberty

Experience managing placements requiring: Court-authorised deprivation of liberty
Enhanced supervision levels
Dynamic risk-based staffing increases

Demonstrable ability to ensure all restrictive practices are lawful, proportionate and clearly recorded

4 Crisis Management Leadership
Experience leading teams during acute crisis episodes
Clear incident debrief and learning culture
Ability to stabilise teams under emotional pressure
Evidence of reducing placement breakdown through effective risk leadership

5 Joint Working & External Interface
Experience of structured joint working with: CAMHS teams
Inpatient discharge coordinators
South West London ICB or equivalent

Experience participating in: Multi-agency risk meetings
Discharge planning
Funding panels where health contributions are required

Ability to confidently present risk profiles to commissioners

6 Autism & Mental Health Co-Morbidity
Experience supporting autistic young people with: Emotional dysregulation
Sensory vulnerabilities
Anxiety and self-harm overlay

Experience implementing neuro-affirming behavioural approaches
Understanding of how MH presentation differs in neurodivergent adolescents

Safe Staffing & Operational Oversight
The postholder must demonstrate:
Experience setting safe staffing ratios for high-acuity placements
Managing solo placements safely
Rotas aligned to dynamic risk
Strong supervision and competency oversight of staff
Clear audit systems for: Incident reporting
Behaviour trends
Restrictive practice review
Regulation 44 and 45 compliance

Leadership Competencies
Strong Ofsted inspection history
Ability to evidence quality assurance and monitoring systems
Clear safeguarding judgement in complex MH contexts
Strong boundary between therapeutic care and medical responsibility
Emotionally regulated leadership style
High staff accountability culture

Desirable
Experience opening or re-registering a new children's home
Additional training in trauma-informed or DBT-informed approaches
Experience in services working closely with NHS/ICB funding streams
Experience managing step-down placements from Tier 4 inpatient units
If this is a role you wish to explore further, please hit the apply button now!

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Location:
Carshalton
Salary:
£95,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Management

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