Responsible Individual - Children's Residential Care

RJS Resourcing is working with an established children's residential care provider looking to appoint an experienced Responsible Individual to oversee a portfolio of children's homes.

Reporting directly to the Company Directors, you will provide strategic and operational leadership across designated services, supporting Registered Managers to maintain high standards of care, achieve positive Ofsted outcomes and deliver sustainable service improvements.

This is an opportunity for an experienced senior leader who enjoys developing people, improving services and playing an influential role in the wider growth of a residential childcare organisation.

The Role

As Responsible Individual, you will act as the organisation's Ofsted-registered representative across your designated homes, ensuring effective governance, regulatory compliance and consistently high standards of care.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Providing leadership, supervision and operational guidance to Registered Managers.
• Maintaining oversight of safeguarding, quality assurance and regulatory compliance.
• Ensuring homes are prepared for Ofsted inspections and meet their Statements of Purpose.
• Driving service improvement, including the successful turnaround of underperforming homes.
• Overseeing referrals, admissions, placement matching and placement stability.
• Monitoring staffing, recruitment, rotas, budgets and operational performance.
• Supporting the development and implementation of new residential services.
• Establishing strong relationships with local authorities, external agencies and professional partners.
• Developing management teams through mentoring, performance management and professional development.
• Ensuring services remain financially sustainable without compromising care quality.

Key Requirements

We are looking for an experienced children's residential care professional with:

• A proven track record of successfully managing children's residential services.
• Previous senior operational management or Responsible Individual experience.
• A history of achieving Good or Outstanding Ofsted judgements.
• Demonstrable experience improving or turning around underperforming children's homes.
• Strong knowledge of Ofsted requirements and the Social Care Common Inspection Framework (SCCIF).
• Excellent safeguarding, governance and quality assurance knowledge.
• The ability to develop and support Registered Managers.
• Strong commercial awareness and experience managing operational resources.
• Excellent communication, leadership and problem-solving skills.
• A genuine commitment to achieving positive outcomes for children and young people.

What's on Offer

• £65,000–£75,000 starting salary.
• Potential salary increases linked to performance and service expansion.
• Senior leadership position reporting directly to the Company Directors.
• Opportunity to influence the development and quality of multiple children's residential services.
• Responsibility for supporting new service openings and sustainable growth.
• Monthly supervision and ongoing professional support.
• Opportunity to mentor and develop Registered Managers across the organisation.

The position includes participation in an on-call rota as part of the Responsible Individual's contractual responsibilities.

Interested?

If you're an experienced senior leader within children's residential care who can demonstrate strong Ofsted outcomes, effective operational oversight and a genuine passion for developing high-quality services, we'd welcome a confidential conversation.

At RJS Resourcing, we partner with values-driven children's home providers across the UK and work on a continuous stream of exciting opportunities within residential childcare. If this role isn't quite the right fit, we'd still love to hear from you to discuss our wider portfolio of Registered Manager, Deputy Manager, Responsible Individual, Senior and Residential Support Worker vacancies.