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About the Role

Delphi Care Solutions offers consultancy-led Responsible Individual (RI) support, bringing extensive sector knowledge, regulatory expertise, and strategic challenge to providers. We partner with providers committed to making a meaningful difference in children's lives, delivering structured, inspection-led support that embeds strong systems, transparent governance, and defensible safeguarding practice.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent governance oversight
• Provide strategic safeguarding leadership
• Ensure inspection-readiness assurance aligned to SCCIF
• Provide provider-level accountability
• Offer constructive professional challenge
• Ensure the children's home operates lawfully under all relevant legislation
• Ensure the children's home meets and sustains the Quality Standards
• Ensure the children's home maintains safe, proportionate safeguarding systems
• Ensure the children's home remains inspection-ready under the Social Care Common Inspection Framework
• Ensure the children's home delivers measurable outcomes for children
• Represent the provider in regulatory engagement and evidence oversight, scrutiny, and challenge
• Maintain provider-level oversight systems
• Monitor trends in incidents, restraints, missing episodes, complaints and safeguarding
• Oversee Regulation 44 independence and scrutiny quality
• Review and approve Regulation 45 Quality of Care reports
• Ensure Regulation 40 notifications are appropriate and timely
• Maintain a live compliance and risk register
• Stress-test systems prior to inspection
• Hold ultimate safeguarding accountability on behalf of the provider
• Scrutinize serious incidents and allegations
• Ensure appropriate external referrals (LADO, police, placing authority)
• Monitor learning and practice improvement
• Ensure safeguarding decisions are evidence-based and defensible
• Escalate concerns to Ofsted or relevant safeguarding authorities if provider action is inadequate
• Provide structured supervision to the Registered Manager
• Offer professional challenge and performance scrutiny
• Identify early indicators of drift, fatigue, or compliance risk
• Monitor workforce stability, safer recruitment, and training compliance
• Ensure the Statement of Purpose reflects operational reality
• Review evidence trails against SCCIF judgement areas
• Evaluate documentation quality and regulatory language
• Identify vulnerabilities before inspection
• Ensure improvement plans are outcome-focused
• Provide structured oversight reporting to the provider quarterly (minimum)
• Operate independently of day-to-day management
• Not undertake direct operational shift delivery
• Transparently declare any prior consultancy involvement
• Maintain clear boundaries between improvement consultancy and statutory oversight
• Formally declare financial or professional conflicts of interest
• Challenge the provider where necessary
• Provide governance oversight, not operational management
• Ensure the Registered Manager retains responsibility for day-to-day running
• Ensure the provider retains ultimate legal responsibility

Requirements

• Enhanced DBS including Children’s Barred List check
• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management (Children’s Residential) or demonstrable equivalent senior leadership experience
• Significant senior leadership experience in children’s residential care
• Ability to evidence governance scrutiny
• Ongoing CPD
• Travel to services across UK regions will be required
• Mileage and reasonable travel expenses may be chargeable in line with the agreed consultancy contract
• Commercial interests must never override safeguarding responsibilities
• Services must meet acceptable statutory thresholds with clear, measurable improvement action

Skills

• Deep knowledge of Care Standards Act 2000
• Deep knowledge of Children’s Homes Regulations 2015
• Deep knowledge of Quality Standards
• Deep knowledge of Ofsted Social Care Common Inspection Framework
• Strong safeguarding expertise

Location

• Across all UK regions

Work Type

• Contract basis (Project-based)
• Full-time (typically Monday to Friday)

Experience Level

• Dependent on experience and qualifications
• Demonstrable equivalent senior leadership experience
• Significant senior leadership experience in children’s residential care

Education Level

• Level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management (Children’s Residential)

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive rates (dependent on experience and qualifications)

About the Company

• Delphi Care Solutions supports Ofsted-regulated services from initial concept through to safe, sustainable operational practice.
• We work alongside providers at every stage of their journey — from registration and governance set-up to ongoing regulatory oversight and inspection readiness.
• Our ethos is simple: we partner with providers who genuinely care and are committed to making a meaningful difference in children’s lives.
• We do not offer superficial compliance.
• Delphi Care Solutions maintains a zero tolerance approach to poor safeguarding practice.
• Children’s safety must never be compromised by operational, financial, or reputational considerations.