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Registered Manager - Children's ServicesLocation: Much Hadham, HertfordshireSalary: £46,362, rising to £52,855-£55,608 upon successful registrationHours: Full time, 37.5 hours per weekContract: PermanentShape futures and make a difference by leading outstanding care. At St Elizabeth's, we support children and young people with epilepsy, learning disabilities, autism and diverse health needs to live fulfilled, meaningful lives. Set within 60 acres of beautiful Hertfordshire countryside, our charity has been delivering specialist care, education and support for over 120 years.We are seeking two experienced and inspirational Registered Managers to lead our established Ofsted-registered children's homes and play a key role within our Residential Leadership Team. If you are an experienced Registered Manager looking to influence practice, develop teams and deliver exceptional outcomes for children, we would love to hear from you.About the RoleAs Registered Manager, you will:

• Lead an Ofsted-registered children's home.
• Manage and develop a team of Deputy Managers, Senior staff and Care & Support Workers.
• Drive high-quality, child-centred care that promotes independence, wellbeing and positive outcomes.
• Act as Designated Safeguarding Lead across both homes.
• Lead on Ofsted compliance, quality assurance, inspections and continuous improvement.
• Build strong relationships with families, local authorities, commissioners and safeguarding partners.
• Manage operational budgets exceeding £1 million.
• Work collaboratively with education, therapy, nursing and estates teams to provide integrated support.
• Contribute to strategic developments across residential services.

• Proven experience managing an Ofsted-registered children's home.
• A deep understanding of safeguarding, quality standards, and reflective leadership.
• A Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (and ideally a Level 5 Leadership qualification, or willingness to complete).
• Strong knowledge of Children's Homes Regulations and Quality Standards.
• The confidence to lead through change and inspire high-performing teams.
• Excellent communication, organisational, and relationship-building skills.

• 27 days' holiday + bank holidays
• 50% uplift for weekend overtime
• Free on-site parking and DBS
• Blue Light Card discounts and discounted gym membership at Manor of Groves
• Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing platform

Lead an Established Children's Home and Make a Lasting Difference

Are you an experienced Ofsted Registered Manager or an Experienced Deputy looking to step up? If so, are you looking for your next leadership opportunity?

We are seeking a dedicated and motivated Registered Manager to lead an new solo children's residential home in Harrow, providing high-quality care and support for a young person wit click apply for full job details

At Signature Senior Lifestyle, we provide award-winning care in luxurious surroundings. As a Clinical Services Manager, youll play a key leadership role in ensuring exceptional, person-centred care for our residents, supporting them to live safe, fulfilled lives.

• Up to £69,300 per annum + plus the potential to earn a 25% salary bonus
• 1 in 4 Duty Manager weekend requirement
• Up to 3 click apply for full job details

About the Role

Cambridgeshire County Council is seeking an experienced Children's Services Team Manager to support its Assessment Service, with additional responsibility for providing management cover across Family Support and Safeguarding teams as required. This is an excellent opportunity for a strong operational leader with a proven track record in safeguarding, service delivery and team development within statutory children's social care.

Rate: Up to 45.50 per hour (Umbrella)
Location: Awdry House, 110 Ramnoth Road, Wisbech, PE13 2JD
Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days per week in the office

You will lead and manage a team delivering high-quality social work services to children, young people and families, ensuring timely interventions and compliance with statutory requirements. Responsibilities include overseeing complex safeguarding cases, managing team performance, providing effective supervision, ensuring robust risk management, and working collaboratively with partner agencies to achieve positive outcomes for children and families.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of high-quality Assessment, Family Support and Safeguarding services.
• Manage workload allocation, performance and service delivery within statutory timescales.
• Provide oversight and decision-making on complex child protection and safeguarding matters.
• Support social workers through regular supervision, coaching and development.
• Drive performance, quality assurance and service improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with multi-agency partners to ensure effective safeguarding and support plans.
• Contribute to audits, practice development and implementation of best practice standards.
• Deputise for Service Managers where required.

Requirements

• Recognised Social Work qualification
• Current Social Work England registration.
• Significant management experience within Children's Social Care.
• Strong knowledge of assessment, safeguarding, child protection and statutory frameworks.
• Experience managing complex casework, performance and service delivery.
• Excellent leadership, communication and partnership-working skills.
• Full UK driving licence and ability to travel across the county.

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975. As this role is eligible for an Enhanced DBS check, applicants are required to declare any cautions and convictions that are not protected under current filtering rules.

If you are an experienced Children's Services Team Manager looking for your next interim opportunity, we'd love to hear from you. Please apply today.

Registered Manager - Homecare

Lead a High-Quality Homecare Service and Make a Real Difference

An established and growing homecare provider is seeking an experienced Registered Manager to lead and expand its domiciliary care service in Essex

This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation dedicated to delivering outstanding, person-centred care that enables people to live independently in the comfort of their own homes. You'll have the opportunity to shape the service, develop your team and play a key role in its continued success.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day management and development of the homecare service.
• Carry out client consultations, care assessments, care planning and onboarding.
• Ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, person-centred care.
• Manage client feedback and complaints, driving continuous service improvement.
• Develop strong relationships with local stakeholders and identify opportunities for business growth.
• Recruit, mentor and develop a high-performing care team.
• Maintain full CQC compliance and ensure the service operates to the highest regulatory standards.

About You

• Previous management experience within domiciliary or homecare services.
• Strong knowledge of CQC standards, legislation and regulatory compliance.
• Passionate about delivering exceptional, person-centred care.
• A confident and inspiring leader who can motivate and support others.
• Proactive, resilient and organised, with excellent problem-solving skills.
• Willing to undertake an enhanced DBS check.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary with regular salary reviews (XX).
• Annual and performance-related bonus opportunities.
• Ongoing training, development and career progression.
• Paid enhanced DBS check.
• Employee benefits, wellbeing initiatives and volunteer days.
• Blue Light Card eligibility.
• A supportive leadership team and positive working culture.
• The opportunity to make a genuine impact within a growing, quality-focused care provider.

Ready for Your Next Challenge?

If you're an experienced Registered Manager looking for an opportunity to lead a successful homecare service while making a meaningful difference to people's lives, we'd love to hear from you.

If you are interested send across you most updated CV or contact

Senior Housing Officer (known as Neighbourhood Services Manager)

Macclesfield

£34,795 rising to £36,626 (At 2 years, subject to satisfactory performance )

As a Neighbourhood Services Manager you will be the key contact for all customers within a defined patch of properties click apply for full job details

Lead Wellbeing & Lifestyle Coordinator
£14.42 per hour plus Company Benefits
40 Hours per week with some weekend working

A Top 20 Care Home Group 2026!

Awarded 'One of the UK s Best Companies to Work For

Please note, we are currently unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Wellington Vale is an 80 bedded stunning luxury nursing, residential and dementia care home situated in Waterlooville, Hampshire

Our Lead Wellbeing and Lifestyle Coordinator is both a management and a hands-on working role. Working alongside our wellbeing and lifestyle coordinators you will be responsible for managing and coordinating a successful activities and volunteer programme within the Cinnamon Home. This includes internal and external communication about activities-focused programmes for our residents, as well as networking within the local community to recruit, train and place volunteers within the home. You will introduce appropriate activities for our residents which support independence and identify activities in the surrounding areas that will assist our residents to integrate into the local community.

You will need to be flexible in your working hours and will work on a rota basis covering some weekends.

Ideally you will hold a full clean driving license as at times you may be required to drive the mini bus for our external excursions.

Our team member benefits include: Paid Breaks Uniforms Staff Meals Nest Pension Employee Assistance Programme Care Workers Charity Spice of Life Discount Retail Scheme Cycle Scheme Eye Care Refer a Friend Scheme Reward Vouchers Quarterly & Annual Company Recognition Awards

Main Responsibilities
1. Organise and conduct activities that encourage both social, mental and if appropriate physical stimulation for the residents within the home, meeting with the Seven Branches of Cinnamon Activities Programme.
2. Network and develop links in the local community to establish a relationship with local businesses, organisations, and schools. Build and maintain a volunteer base for the whole home, involving family, team members and community volunteers to participate as a regular part of the activities programme.
3. Manage the activities team including undertaking supervisions / appraisals and dealing with any people issues appropriately, also ensuring that a robust rota is in place.
4. To organise special events i.e., Christmas entertainment, Ascot, Royal Occasions etc.
5. To produce a monthly programme of events to be discussed with the General Manager of the homes using the Cinnamon Activities Calendar Template.
6. Regularly update the Cinnamon website, Facebook etc. to promote activities to the local community and potential residents and their families.
7. To keep within the home s activities budget.
8. Assess resident s specific social needs on move-in to the home and develop a personal activities programme, taking time to get to know each resident as an individual in order to provide stimulating activities to meet varying needs.

Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (BABCP accred.)

Location: Hertfordshire

Salary: £28,407 per annum

Vacancy Type: Permanent

About The Role

We re looking for a Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner (PWP) to join our Talking Therapies team at HMP The Mount on a full-time basis (35 hours per week). This is a rewarding opportunity to support individuals experiencing low to moderate mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, within a structured, recovery-focused environment.

Working within a Talking Therapies service, you ll deliver evidence-based, low-intensity psychological interventions (Step 2) designed to help people make meaningful progress in their mental health. You ll work 1:1 and in group settings, supporting individuals to develop practical coping strategies and move forward with confidence.

What you ll be doing:

• Assessing suitability for low-intensity psychological interventions
• Delivering Step 2 Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression
• Providing 1:1 support and facilitating therapeutic groups
• Managing a structured caseload with appropriate prioritisation and care planning
• Working collaboratively with prison and partner agencies in a multidisciplinary setting
• Participating in clinical supervision and case management
• Maintaining accurate, high-quality clinical records and risk assessments

What we re looking for:

• Qualified or trainee PWP with a recognised PWP qualification (or working towards it)
• Strong understanding of low-intensity CBT-based interventions
• Experience working within Talking Therapies / IAPT frameworks
• Ability to manage a caseload effectively and work within structured clinical pathways
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills
• Commitment to collaborative, multidisciplinary working
• Confidence in risk assessment and safe practice within a secure setting
• Commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusive practice

This is a role where structure meets purpose. Every day, you ll be working with people who may feel stuck or overwhelmed, helping them take practical, manageable steps towards change. Within a secure setting, your support can be a steady point of connection, helping individuals build insight, confidence, and coping strategies they can carry beyond the service.

If you re motivated by meaningful clinical work, enjoy working as part of a supportive team, and want to make a tangible difference in people s mental health journeys, this role offers a unique and impactful opportunity.

All prison-based roles are subject to enhanced DBS checks and HMPPS security vetting. These checks can take up to 5 months to complete. Any offer of employment will be conditional upon the successful completion of both checks.

Please note if you have lived overseas within the last 5 years then checks may take longer.

About Us

We are The Forward Trust, the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

We are committed to our cause and the work we carry out as a charity. Equally the wellbeing and the employees who work for us are also important. Joining us an employee, we will offer you the following benefits -

• Flexible working
• Training and development opportunities
• Simply Health Cashback Scheme (optional)
• Season Ticket Loan Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Crisis Loan Scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 3 x Wellbeing Days (pro rata'd for part time employees)
• Access to Blue Light Card
• 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory Pension Scheme Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years service and up to 9% thereafter
• Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)
• Critical Illness Insurance (subject to qualifying criteria)

Please note that we may close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

To Apply

If you feel you are a suitable candidate and would like to work for Forward Trust, please click apply to be redirected to our website to complete your application.