Assistant Director – Statutory Compliance
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Norfolk
Communities:
Merrywood House - Norfolk
Salary: £42,689.50 per annum
Closing Date: Friday 26th September 2025
Context
Childhood First enables children and young people to recover from early life abuse and relational trauma, to enjoy life and to achieve their potential. We do this through the provision of specialist therapeutic residential care and treatment, together with family and network support. We are also a UKCP Training Organisational Member accredited with Middlesex University, providing in-house clinical training to its clinical staff.
Merrywood House, provides placements for up to 8 young people aged between 10 and 17 years old.
Purpose
As the assistant director – statutory compliance, you will be a key member of the therapeutic community’s senior leadership team, taking the lead role in ensuring the services provided by the therapeutic community are fully compliant with statutory requirements and current best practice. This includes safeguarding practice and procedures as well as ensuring records and KPIs are maintained and available to Ofsted inspectors upon request.
What you’ll bring to the role
- Experience of leading on safeguarding and statutory compliance in an Ofsted regulated children’s residential setting.
- Robust knowledge of legislation and best practice relating to looked after children.
- Have achieved, or willing to undertake, level 5 diploma in leadership and management for residential care.
- A high level of communication skills and methodical approach to work.
- A sense of personal resilience and psychological awareness, and the ability to form open and constructive relationships including a willingness to consider self in relationships with others in terms of impact on the work.
Task
- Working as part of the senior leadership team to develop safe, supportive and nurturing relationships.
- Supervision of statutory compliance administrator.
- Safeguarding and promoting the welfare and wellbeing of children and young people to develop to their full potential.
- Attending community events, including our yearly community holiday.
What we will do for you
- Statutory and management training
- Monthly clinical supervision and weekly staff support groups
- 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
- Healthcare benefits and life assurance
- Up to 6% employer pension contribution
- Relocation package and recruitment referral scheme
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week
NB: Includes occasional weekend work and one on-call weekend per month.
Closing date for applications: Friday, 26 September 2025
To apply, please download and complete the application form or email your CV to jobs@childhoodfirst.org.uk
Childhood First is committed to safeguarding children. We follow safer recruitment guidelines and all appointments will be subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS and references.
No Recruitment Agencies, we only work with our approved PSL.