Responsible Manager – Children’s Residential Services

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Liquid Personnel is recruiting a passionate professional for its client at Blackpool to take on the pivotal role of Responsible Individual / Service Manager, overseeing a portfolio of children’s homes specialising in Emotional &amp; Behavioural Difficulties (EBD) and Learning Disabilities. This is your opportunity to lead service development, drive quality, and shape the future of care across a growing organisation.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What will your responsibilities be?</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As the Responsible Individual and Service Manager, you will:</span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Provide strategic and operational leadership across a cluster of children’s homes, ensuring exceptional care, safeguarding, and full regulatory compliance</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Support, coach, and appraise Registered Managers to foster a culture of high performance, professional growth, and reflective practice</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Lead governance and quality assurance processes to ensure services consistently deliver positive outcomes for children and young people</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Oversee the development and registration of new services, including recruitment and implementation of therapeutic care models</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Maintain oversight of Ofsted requirements and lead preparations for inspections</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Deliver regular performance, regulatory, and growth reports to the Board</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Qualifications &amp; Experience</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">We’re looking for a values-driven leader who can inspire and influence at all levels. The ideal candidate will have:</span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Proven experience managing and leading multiple children’s homes, with expertise in EBD and/or Learning Disabilities</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Level 5 Diploma in Leadership &amp; Management for Residential Childcare (or equivalent)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Eligibility to register with Ofsted as a Responsible Individual</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Strong understanding of safeguarding, compliance, and current regulatory frameworks</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Exceptional leadership, communication, and organisational skills</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Full UK driving licence and flexibility to travel across multiple sites</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Benefits</strong></span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Competitive salary with a performance-based bonus structure</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Pension scheme</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Enhanced opportunities for ongoing professional development</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Involvement in shaping new services and expanding the company portfolio</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Supportive senior leadership team that champions innovation, excellence, and child-centred care</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Free parking</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Casual dress code</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Company events</span></li> </ul> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Reasonable Adjustments:</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">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.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">BH - 193798</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">GH - 32880</span></p>