Job Description

Registered Manager Carr Brow Children's Home

MB4 (45,091 - 51,356)

37 Hours, Full Time

Permanent

Carr Brow Children's Home, Hybrid Working available as appropriate

Application Deadline: 11:59pm 5th January 2026

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Shortlisting Date: 6th January 2026

Interview Date: 13th & 14th January 2026

Interview Type: Face to face and short assessment centre

While we embrace the use of AI as an innovative tool to maximise our services at Stockport Council, we are looking for authenticity in applications we receive. We therefore ask you to think carefully if choosing to use AI when completing your application and ask that you ensure you read all instructions carefully and that your application is written by you and reflects your skills, knowledge and enthusiasm.

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Your Role

As our Registered Manager, you'll lead a warm, ambitious and child-centred home that puts relationships, stability and progress at its heart. You'll provide clear leadership for your team, ensure the highest standards of care, and bring energy, curiosity and rigour to Ofsted compliance, safeguarding and day-to-day practice. You'll oversee all aspects of the home, from team development and placement planning to creating a space where young people feel safe, valued and able to thrive. This is a role where your professional judgement and relational leadership really matter.

About You

You may be an established Registered Manager looking for your next developmental step if so, we'd welcome you and support you to broaden your impact, refine your leadership and grow into wider strategic responsibilities.

Equally, you may be an ambitious deputy or senior ready to step up. If that's you, we're very open to a conversation we simply need to see your drive, resilience and evidence that you're ready for registration.

Whichever route you're on, you'll bring strong values, a commitment to children's rights and trauma-informed care, and the ability to lead teams through calm, confident and thoughtful practice.

About Us

Stockport is a council with ambition, purpose and heart. We are developing our children's homes significantly over the coming months, with additional homes being added to our current provision, genuinely exciting times to join us as we strengthen and expand our in-house offer.


You'll be part of a service that values reflective practice, professional curiosity and supportive leadership. And, cheeky but true, you'll enjoy the stability, pension, development opportunities and ethical practice that come with working for a local authority, without the profit-driven pressures found elsewhere.


At Stockport Council we are one ambitious team on a mission to create opportunities for everyone who lives, works and spends time in the borough. Working at Stockport Council means contributing to one of the most thriving towns in the North. We're keen to recruit people with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.


We are proud to be recognised under the Good Employment Charter as an organisation committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues. As members of the charter, we have been recognised as a great place to work for all colleagues and pledge to pay the real living wage, engage staff in key decisions and endorse fair and flexible working conditions.

If you'd like to find out more about the role, please contact William Kidd, Service Lead, at william.kidd@stockport.gov.uk or 07356 155462 for an informal conversation.

This post is also open as secondment opportunity for Stockport Council Employees, however, you must seek the permission of your current manager prior to making an application.


The successful applicant's appointment will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment clearances including a Disclosure and Barring Service check.


Stockport Council holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not currently qualify.

Please note that we have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers and ex-military personnel. As part of the Guaranteed Assessment Scheme you will therefore be guaranteed to be shortlisted for Assessment if you meet both the criteria for the scheme and the essential job role criteria.

Find out if you meet the criteria here: https://www.greater.jobs/our-guaranteed-assessment-scheme

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We want our employees to have a good work life balance and in many job roles we can offer a range of flexible/hybrid working arrangements. We also have inclusive employment policies and staff engagement forums to support our diverse workforce. We will listen to, learn from, and develop our workforce.