Registered Manager - Family Assessment Centre

Job Title: Registered Manager – Family Assessment Centre

Location: Arun Hope, Littlehampton

Contract Type: Permanent - Full Time

Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 dependent on experience

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Registered Manager at our Family Assessment Centre in Littlehampton.  

About the Role

As the Registered Manager of our Family Assessment Centre, you will be accountable for providing vision and strategic leadership of the Service and continuous improvement. The successful candidate will follow relevant guidelines to ensure a safe and secure environment that meets Ofsted legislation and regulations. You will also manage all budgets and drive financial performance.

Reporting the Area Manager, the Registered Manager will lead a team that will include social workers, clinicians and residential care workers. As a team, you will ensure effective intervention, assessment and care is delivered for each individual service user/family and they are given the highest standard of support to lead to a final successful move-on for all.

About the Group

It’s official – we have been rated as a Great Place to Work 2025! 83% of employees at National Fostering Group say it is a great place to work, compared to 54% of employees at a typical UK-based company! Learn more here: Great Place to Work

With over 20 years of experience, National Fostering Group is the largest independent children’s fostering group in the UK, with a community of over 2,500 foster carers. In Northern Ireland, we work with Local Health and Social Care Trusts to provide the highest quality of care for children and young people. All our fostering agencies across the UK are officially recognised by Ofsted, Welsh, and Scottish regulators as either ‘Outstanding’ or ‘Good,’ which we are extremely proud of.

Who we are looking for?

We are looking for someone with a proven track record of managing Ofsted registered services and gaining good/outstanding inspection outcomes. You will have a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management or working towards it and experience in motivating and managing a multi-disciplinary team in a similar service.

The successful candidate will have experience working with adults/children/families, preferably in a residential setting, along with a great understand of early year’s development and the dynamics of family relationships. You will be comfortable managing conflict and working with families that will be in a state of distress and experience in the delivery of parenting assessments.

Essential Criteria

• Extensive experience of working with adults/children/families
• Social Work Qualified
• Proven track record of managing Ofsted registered services
• Experience of improving or maintaining high levels of delivery and outcomes for services users
• A level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People’s Services (achieved after January 2011).
• A proven track record of experience within a similar setting
• Good knowledge of Safeguarding procedures and relevant Regulatory Body regulations
• Experience supervising and managing professional staff
• Evidence of Continuous professional/ management development
• Proven experience of managing budgets effectively ensuring cost efficiency

But what else is in it for you? Your health and wellbeing are important to us, so you’ll get an exceptional reward package including:

• Up to 39 days annual leave each year (25 base entitlement + 1 One moment in time + 8 bank holidays + ability to buy up to 5 extra days)
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions

• “Your Wellbeing Matters” – access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks

   

And a market-leading benefit offering through our Flexible Benefits Platform, Vista, enables you to choose the package that’s right for you, including:

• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme

• Critical illness cover

   

And that’s not all, we place the outcomes of the children and vulnerable young adults in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and we expect all employees to share this commitment and undertake appropriate checks.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer.