Location: Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire 📍

Salary: £60,000 per annum 💷

Working Hours / Shift Pattern: 37.5 hours per week

Employment Type: Permanent

Service: Children's Residential Care

Service Users: Children and Young People aged 8–17 with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD)

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join our client's Children's Residential Care division as a Regional Support Manager.

The successful candidate will provide parachute support to Registered Managers and residential services when additional capacity or expertise is required. This is a hands-on operational role focused on maintaining high standards of care, compliance, leadership, and therapeutic practice across multiple homes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing parachute support to Registered Managers and staff teams when additional support is required

• Delivering audits to ensure regulatory compliance, best practice, and service quality

• Coaching, mentoring, and developing managers and staff teams to drive continuous improvement

• Providing interim management cover in homes where a Registered Manager is absent or a vacancy exists

• Guiding and supporting teams to maintain safe, nurturing, and therapeutic environments

• Promoting positive outcomes for children and young people

• Supporting homes to achieve and maintain inspection readiness

• Working closely with operational leaders to strengthen service delivery and performance

Who We Are Looking For:

Our client is seeking an experienced residential childcare leader with a strong understanding of children's home regulations, safeguarding, quality assurance, and therapeutic care.

You will be adaptable, resilient, and confident in supporting services through periods of change, improvement, or growth.

Why Join Our Client?

• Opportunity to support and influence multiple children's residential services

• Varied and rewarding role with significant operational impact

• Opportunity to coach and develop Registered Managers and future leaders

• Strong support from an experienced senior leadership team

• Focus on therapeutic care, quality outcomes, and continuous improvement

• Career progression opportunities within a growing organisation

Benefits:

• £60,000 per annum

• No sleep-ins required

• Ongoing professional development and training

• Supportive senior leadership team

• Employee wellbeing initiatives

• Opportunities for career progression

Ethos:

A child-centred organisation committed to providing safe, nurturing, and therapeutic environments where children and young people can thrive and achieve positive outcomes.

Culture:

Supportive, collaborative, and focused on continuous improvement, professional development, and delivering outstanding care for children and young people.

Sponsorship is not available.

How to Apply:

If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people and have the experience to support and develop residential services, we would love to hear from you.

To apply, click the apply button or contact us for more information.

For more information or to arrange a confidential discussion, please contact: job@sgscare.co.uk