The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.

We are looking for a registered manager for a Therapeutic Residential Children’s Home in in Cheadle Hulme. This is an exciting opportunity as a Registered Manager, you will be managing an existing established children’s home.

The Children’s Home works with children who have experienced trauma and display Emotional Behavioural Disorder (EBD). You will work with your team to provide a safe and nurturing home for the young people that you support; we provide compassionate, nurturing care for children who are in crisis and have complex needs, supporting them to move from a difficult past to a brighter future.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).

Location – Cheadle Hulme, Stockport

Hours - 37.5 hours per week

Salary - £48,022 per annum (£24.62ph rising to £30.78ph for weekends)

Sleep in Payment of £100.80 per sleep

On call payments of £40 – Monday to Friday, £80 for weekends and £120 for bank holidays

• 27 days holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years.
• Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service.
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card.
• Proud to be a real living wage employer.
• Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us.
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications.
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online.
• Access to our Employee Assistance programme for you and adults at your home.

Here at Together Trust our vision is to champion a better future for the children, young people, and adults we support.

Main Responsibilities

As a Registered Manager you will manage a residential care team and have responsibility for a residential children’s home, ensuring a high-quality service within the home is developed and to perform within organisational policies and procedures, the National Minimum Standards and the legislative framework pertaining to children’s homes.

The Ideal Candidates

We are looking for Managers or Assistant Managers with a proven record for getting results from their staff team. We are looking for the following:

• Registered Manager’s Award (RMA Children) (combined management & care award).
• Significant residential childcare experience
• A sound understanding of Ofsted regulations and expectations.
• Ability to demonstrate effective leadership.
• Ability to achieve service delivery to national standards.
• Passion to develop further services for children/young people.
• Has the right to work in the UK (we only accept applications from UK based candidates as we are not part of any visa sponsorship scheme)

Full Job Description is attached.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.

If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can do to support you

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).

This role will involve regulated activity.