Registered Manager - The Elms

Closing date: 25/10/2026

Salary: Grade 9, ranging from £43,149 - £47,665 per annum, plus a £9,358 per annum recruitment allowance payable until 30/09/2027. 

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37 hours a week

About the Role

As a Registered Manager, you'll lead one of Somerset Council’s short break homes for children with disabilities, creating a safe, nurturing environment where children can thrive. You'll inspire and develop a dedicated team to deliver exceptional, child-centred care while ensuring the highest standards of quality and compliance.

Working closely with social care, health, education, and partner agencies, you'll drive positive outcomes through effective care planning, strong multi-agency collaboration, and continuous service improvement. Your leadership will help shape a high-performing service that promotes every child’s wellbeing, independence, and inclusion.

We’re working to improve the lives of Children in Somerset – and you’ll be a key part of that. 

We’re rated Outstanding and already have a well-established, experienced and highly skilled team in place. We have great relationships with our children and their families and have done everything we can to create a fun, caring and supportive environment (with the occasional bit of fancy dress thrown in).

Your job will be to come in and keep things running in the right direction - maintaining the high levels of performance and culture that we’ve built.

You’ll benefit from administrative support to help free you up to focus on what matters, and our approach as a small, niche, committed short break service (we currently have one other home, which is also rated Outstanding). We know what we’re doing, so there isn’t a high training burden or a reliance on agency cover (in fact, we don’t use any at all).

We don’t mean to blow our own horn too much - but this really is a rare opportunity. Short break management roles don’t come along very often. Not only do we have a brilliant team, but the hours and days are kinder and more flexible than in other settings, allowing you to work in an incredibly rewarding role without sacrificing any semblance of work-life balance.

How You'll Make a Difference   

You will:

• Lead and manage the day-to-day running of the home, ensuring high-quality care and compliance with statutory standards.
• Oversee budgets, staffing, recruitment, supervision, training and service performance.
• Develop and monitor care plans, working closely with health professionals, families, schools and social care colleagues.
• Build positive relationships with children, families and partner agencies to achieve the best outcomes.
• Manage admissions, placements and service planning, ensuring each child's needs are fully considered.
• Provide leadership in decision-making, safeguarding and service development.

 What you will bring

It’s a given that you’ll have substantial experience working within a care setting in a management role - but it’s also critical that you’re compassionate and committed to our children and our team, and ready to adopt our values as a service.

You will:

• have day to day responsibility for the home, so you’ll need to understand high quality care, impact and quality assurance, and be comfortable managing and monitoring a budget.
• need to be willing to undertake a QCF Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare (or equivalent) if you don’t already hold the qualification.
• have 2+ years' residential childcare experience within the last 5 years, 1 year of it supervisory, under Regulation 28 of the Children's Homes Regulations 2015. 

Why Join Us?

At Somerset Council, we're a progressive organisation committed to improving lives and shaping better services for our communities. Based in one of England's most beautiful counties, it's a great place to build your career and enjoy an excellent quality of life. 

• 28 days' annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional leave. 

• Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), one of the UK's most enhanced and secure pension schemes. 

• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements to support work-life balance, where service needs allow. 

• Health and wellbeing support, including access to confidential employee assistance services. 

• Paid volunteering opportunities, helping you make a difference both inside and outside of work. 

Find out more about working at Somerset Council: https://www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/working-at-somerset-council/ 

Further Information  

• Based in Curry Rivel.
• 30 day’s annual leave (additional to bank holidays)
• This post requires a criminal background check via the Disclosure procedure.
• An enhanced DBS check is required for this role.

Regretfully, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role. We are only able to proceed with candidates who already have the right to work in the UK without the need for visa sponsorship

When completing your application/CV please provide your full employment history and ensure that any gaps in employment are explained. Please start with your current or most recent employment.

For an informal chat about the role please contact: Serena Pike, Service Manager at [email removed].

Please note, candidates will be reviewed on a regular basis and invited to interview accordingly. The advert may close at any time if we have a successful applicant.

We believe diversity makes us stronger and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences, whose unique perspectives help us better serve the people of Somerset.

Job Description:  AG0652 Registered Manager 

Job Reference: 1041/SR  (please quote in any correspondence)