Registered Manager

🏠 Registered Manager – Children's Residential (EBD)

📍 London, NW1

💰 £52,000 basic (up to £58,600 with bonuses)

🚗 Company car or £3,000 travel allowance

Area Camden has held Good and Outstanding Ofsted ratings since 2014, and we're opening a new solo children's home in London. We need an experienced Registered Manager to lead it from day one, supporting young people aged 9 to 17 with complex emotional and behavioural needs.

This isn't a home that already runs on rails. You're building the culture, the team and the standards from scratch, backed by an operator with a genuinely established track record rather than a startup taking a first swing at it. If you want ownership rather than inheriting someone else's way of doing things, this is that role.

💷 What's in it

▸ £52,000 basic salary

▸ Realistic earning potential up to £58,600

▸ Company car or £3,000 annual travel allowance

▸ £300 per month full occupancy bonus

▸ Ofsted bonus: £3,000 for Outstanding, £1,500 for Good

▸ 32 days annual leave including bank holidays, rising by 1 day a year for your first three years

▸ Workplace pension post probation

▸ Mobile phone provided, plus a local parking permit

▸ 40 hours per week, you manage your own rota and take part in the on call rota

🎯 What you'll be doing

▸ Leading the reopening and registration process, appointment subject to Ofsted approval

▸ Holding overall accountability for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child

▸ Building a staff team that can actually deliver therapeutic, consistent care

▸ Running the home in line with the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards

▸ Driving continuous improvement against Area Camden's standards and ethos

▸ Working closely with placing authorities, families and external professionals

✅ What we're looking for

▸ A Registered Manager or a strong Deputy ready to step up

▸ 2 to 3 years plus in a management role within children's residential care

▸ Solid EBD experience, you know what this cohort needs

▸ NVQ Level 3 in Caring for Children and Young People

▸ A Leadership and Management qualification, or willingness to work towards one

▸ Strong knowledge of the Children Act 1989, Care Standards Act 2000 and the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015

▸ The ability to lead staff teams with confidence, professionalism and resilience

You'd also be joining a home backed by a wider, well established group, with designated recruitment, HR, quality assurance, learning and development and safeguarding specialist support behind you, so you're not building this in isolation.

If you've been ready for a home that's yours to shape rather than one you're stepping into halfway through, this is worth a conversation.

📩 Apply now or message me directly for a confidential chat.

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