Registered Manager - Fostering Services

Location: North Shields / Middlesbrough (Hybrid: minimum 1 day per week office-based)

Salary: £60,052.05 - £64,341.48 per annum

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours per week)

Reporting to: Director of Fostering Services & Responsible Individual

Responsible for: Social Work Service

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, passionate, and strategic leader to join our agency as Registered Manager for our North East service. Following our Ofsted 'Outstanding' rating, this is a pivotal role where you will provide strategic and operational leadership, drive continuous service innovation, and shape the future of fostering across the region.

Regulatory & Strategic Leadership: Act as the Ofsted Registered Manager, ensuring full compliance with regulations, policy, and National Minimum Standards while driving regional business growth.

Practice & Quality Assurance: Lead robust decision-making on safeguarding, referrals, and risk management. Oversee auditing activities to maintain exceptional practice standards.

Team & Carer Development: Manage, mentor, and support managers and social work staff. Oversee the recruitment, training, assessment, and retention of foster carers.

Stakeholder & Business Growth: Build strong relationships with local authorities and partner agencies, contributing to tender opportunities, contract negotiations, and regional initiatives.

Governance & Performance: Monitor service viability, set and manage budgets, and report regularly on outcomes and performance to the Senior Leadership Team and Board of Directors.

Leadership Experience: Significant leadership and management track record within fostering or children's social care services.

Regulatory Expertise: Thorough, working knowledge of fostering legislation, safeguarding protocols, and National Minimum Standards.

Operational Excellence: Strong decision-making, quality assurance, and team performance management skills.

Mobility: Full UK driving licence with flexibility to travel across the North East region (and occasionally to regional offices), as well as participate in the agency's out-of-hours rota.

Generous Leave: 30 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays.

Work-Life Balance: Hybrid working, flexible arrangements, flexi-time, and TOIL (Time Off In Lieu).

Health & Wellbeing: Company sick pay, Employee Assistance Programme, GP Helpline, and Life Assurance cover.

Financial & Loyalty Rewards: Pension scheme, staff loyalty bonus, retail discount scheme, and salary sacrifice options.

Professional Growth: Monthly supervision, annual appraisals, and dedicated learning and development opportunities.

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.