Centre Manager
Posted 24th May, 2026
About the role
Leyton Green Road is a Children's Residential and Respite Service Home for children with learning disabilities and associated needs. As Centre Manager, you will provide strategic leadership and day-to-day management of the Children's Home, ensuring high-quality care and support that promotes wellbeing and safeguarding whilst supporting children's development and aspirations for adulthood.
You will oversee staff, budgets, and resources, maintain compliance with health and safety standards, and build strong relationships with families, professionals, and the wider community. The role involves leading continuous improvement across the service, ensuring it meets regulatory standards and reflects best practice whilst shaping the centre's vision and culture to foster a positive and inclusive environment for both children and staff. You will supervise a total of 32 staff members with support from two Deputy Managers.
Key responsibilities include:
- Fulfilling all duties and responsibilities of a Registered Manager as required by the Children's Home Regulations
- Ensuring Children and Young People achieve positive and agreed outcomes in line with their care plans
- Preparing and presenting a full range of reports to appropriate timescales
- Contributing to strategic planning and development of services for children with disabilities and complex needs
- Promoting activities for children and ensuring their voices are heard using various communication tools such as PECS and Makaton
To apply, submit your application online including a supporting statement that outlines how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. For enquiries about this role, contact Roberta Onyekwelu, Head of Service Permanence & Resources on Roberta.Onyekwelu@walthamforest.gov.uk or 07854 913 787.
About You
You will be an experienced leader with proven expertise in managing Children's Homes and a strong commitment to delivering high-quality care for children with learning disabilities and complex needs. You understand the regulatory environment and have the skills to build positive relationships with children, families, and multi-disciplinary teams.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have Registered Manager status
- Possess experience and knowledge of managing Children's Homes within the last 3 years
- Demonstrate vast knowledge of Children Homes Regulations, Guidelines and Requirements including ample knowledge with a safeguarding lens
- Be conversant with Ofsted Inspections and progressing recommendations
- Ideally be conversant with Mosaic case management recording system and proficient in Microsoft tools
Waltham Forest is committed to equality of opportunity and opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage. We ensure our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels and provide fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent services to all.
This role requires satisfactory employment references, CIFAS identity checks, declaration of interest, enhanced DBS check, and is subject to safer recruitment practices. Fluent spoken English is required for effective performance in this public-facing role.
Waltham Forest Offer to You
Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work. We are a highly ambitious borough driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, developing new and innovative ways to build our communities.
Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded. As one of the Mayor of London's Good Work Standard employers, we demonstrate our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace.
- Fair pay and conditions as part of our Good Work Standard accreditation
- Workplace wellbeing initiatives and support
- Skills development and progression opportunities
- Diversity and recruitment practices that value our rich mix of communities
- Flexible working arrangements considered wherever possible to balance work with personal commitments
- And more benefits of working for the Council
