Children’s Registered Manager – Brand New Home – Complex Trauma

Children's Registered Manager – Brand New Complex Trauma Home

Location: Ipswich 

Salary:  up to £55,000 (Negotiable based on experience) + Excellent Bonus Scheme ( up to £18,000)

Full-time | Permanent

Are you an experienced leader with a passion for children and therapeutic care?

Do you have what it takes to open and lead a brand new children's home?

We are working exclusively with a passionate and industry leading organisation supporting on the recruitment of a Children’s Registered Manager to lead their brand new specialist therapeutic residential home for children aged 7 to 17, supporting up to 4 young people once open with emotional and behavioural difficulties. This is an amazing opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children who need consistent, compassionate, and trauma-informed care.

About Your Home:

• Brand New Home 
• Supports children with complex trauma, including challenging behaviour, risk-taking, self-harm, substance misuse, and difficulties with education or authority.
• Follows the AHCT (Attachment, Humanistic, Community, and Trauma-informed) model – a therapeutic framework rooted in attachment theory, neurodiversity, and relational safety
• Proud member of the Royal College of Psychiatry’s Community of Communities, promoting therapeutic community values and continuous reflective practice.

About You:

• You will have experience within an Ofsted Regulated Service as the Registered Manager within a Complex Trauma service
• Holds a Level 5 in Leadership and Management for Residential Childcare or working towards it
• Has a deep understanding of trauma-informed practice, attachment theory, and child development.

Commutable from: 

Colchester, Halesworth and Bury St Edmunds

Recommendations:              

Compass Associates Ltd is acting as a Recruitment Consultancy for this permanent vacancy; we offer £200 of John Lewis vouchers for each successful recommendation.                              

Lets have a chat!:  

If you would like to be considered for this opportunity, gain further information or have a confidential discussion, please contact me directly on 023 9421 1147, Alternatively email an updated CV to [email protected] with a time to chat!