Registered Manager - Children's Home

Job summary

We are looking for an experienced Registered Manager, or an experienced Deputy Manager wanting to step up, to lead this home from the very beginning. This is a rare opportunity to shape a service from day one, building a positive culture, developing a dedicated team, and creating a home where young people feel a true sense of belonging.

Main duties of the job

As an experienced Registered Manager/Deputy Manager, you will be responsible for the full operational leadership of the home, ensuring it meets and enacts Ofsted requirements. You will play a central role in:

Assisting with the registration process with Ofsted and preparing the home for inspection(s).

Assisting with recruiting, developing, and inspiring a new staff team.

Embedding a therapeutic, childcentred culture from the outset.

Ensuring highquality care planning and safeguarding practice.

Managing budgets, resources, and operational and online systems.

Building strong relationships with local authorities, professionals, families, stakeholders, and the community.

Driving continuous improvement and maintaining high standards.

About us

About Changing Futures North East

Changing Futures North East is a vibrant and fast-growing Charity that is in the privileged position to be able to trial new approaches to working with children and families to catalyse their own, sustainable change. Over the past 26 years, we have grown from an estate-based youth club to a provider of children and families work across Tees Valley, particularly specialising in work that supports and is enabled through healthy relationships.

Changing Futures has particular strengths and experience in:

Pioneering delivery of emotional wellbeing and mental health services pioneering mentalisation based therapy for couples in Tees Valley, and providing EMHPs, CWP and Counsellors into the childrens emotional wellbeing system through two partnerships, as well as delivering adverse childhood experiences programmes for parents and children separately.

Supporting care experienced young people through a fostering service (underpinned by a bespoke trauma informed therapeutic training programme, changing futures through fostering) and through mentoring and befriending support

Reducing parental conflict services delivering mediation and groupwork programmes, and supporting statutory agencies across England to embed a reducing parental conflict offer within their systems

Details

• Date posted: 27 August 2026
• Pay scheme: Other
• Salary: £50,000 to £55,000 a year
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: B0449-26-0007
• Job locations: 3 Abbey Street, Hartlepool, TS24 0JR, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Changing Futures North East is looking to employ a hardworking, reliable person who can Lead, manage and operate a newly opened childrens home. They will be experienced in a range of administrative skills and will have experience managing a team.

Changing Futures NE wants someone who is able to adapt quickly, has a willingness to learn and push themselves to do well.

We consider a great candidate for this role would have patience to take the time to understand the needs of the people accessing our services, be attentive and able to quickly understand how we can help and be able to find solutions when its not always obvious what people need.

We want someone who is not afraid to be responsible for all aspects of management of the home including the provision of high quality care and positive outcomes for children in placement, staff supervision, development and appraisal, budget and premises management in accordance with local and national standards and the service procedures. They will have excellent communication skills both verbally and written and have the tenacity to get the job done as quickly and efficiently as possible. They will understand how to best avoid delays to ensure the people using our services get the help they need when they need it.

If this sounds like you, you will join a Charity that helps children, young people and families in Teesside. You will benefit from an organisation that values its colleagues and recognises hard work. The role is varied, challenging and rewarding.

Key Responsibility

To be responsible for all aspects of management of the home including the provision of high quality care and positive outcomes for children in placement, staff supervision, development and appraisal, budget and premises management in accordance with local and national standards and the service procedures.

Job description

Make a Real Difference from Day One

We believe every young person deserves a safe, stable, and caring place to call home, a place where they are supported, encouraged, and given the opportunity to thrive.

We are a Charity , with over 20 years experience in services for children and young people, and our organisation has built a reputation for providing high-quality care that truly puts young people at the heart of everything we do. We are now preparing to open a brand-new childrens residential home, thoughtfully designed to create a nurturing environment where young people can feel safe, valued, and supported to build brighter futures. The home will provide care and accommodation for Children and young people under the category of EBD (Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties) to either gender, with an age range of 10 up to their 18th birthday.

The Role

Other Duties1.1. To model the organisations values and play a role in raising the profile of these values and associated behaviours across the organisation. This includes a positive contribution to workplace harmony displaying cooperative team behaviour.1.2. Increase ones professional competence and skills in the relevant field of work through active participation in developmental opportunities including supervision, professional development, training and reviews.1.3. Ensure provision of help that protects, respect and promote the rights and responsibilities of children and other service users and stakeholders 1.4. Operate within ethical and professional boundaries.1.5. To maintain respectful, professional, and supportive relations commensurate with the philosophy of the organisation; model healthy ways of relating 1.6. Work to policies and procedures and to implement said policies and procedures.

It may be necessary to change these duties in accordance with the needs of the job and the project. Existing duties may be changed, and new duties may be added. Any changes will be made in consultation with you.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).