All Hours Medical Recruitment is seeking an experienced and suitably qualified Responsible Individual to provide leadership, governance, and oversight within a supported accommodation service.

The Responsible Individual will play a key role in ensuring the service is safe, well-managed, compliant, and focused on delivering positive outcomes for young people or vulnerable individuals. The role requires strong knowledge of supported accommodation standards, safeguarding, quality assurance, and service management.

This position is ideal for a senior care, children’s services, or supported accommodation professional with proven leadership experience and a commitment to safe, person-centred support.

Key Duties

• Provide strategic oversight and governance for the supported accommodation service.
• Ensure the service operates safely, effectively, and in line with relevant regulations, standards, and policies.
• Support the Registered Service Manager or service leadership team with quality, compliance, and improvement planning.
• Monitor safeguarding practice and ensure concerns are identified, escalated, and managed appropriately.
• Oversee quality assurance systems, audits, risk management, and service reviews.
• Ensure staff are appropriately recruited, trained, supervised, and supported.
• Promote a culture of safe, respectful, person-centred support.
• Review policies, procedures, records, and operational practice to maintain high standards.
• Liaise with local authorities, commissioners, families, professionals, and external agencies where required.
• Support preparation for inspections, monitoring visits, and regulatory reviews.
• Ensure young people or service users are supported to develop independence, resilience, and life skills.
• Provide leadership in relation to complaints, incidents, safeguarding matters, and service improvement.

Requirements

• Previous senior leadership or management experience within supported accommodation, children’s services, leaving care, residential care, supported living, or a related setting.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding, risk management, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance.
• Knowledge of supported accommodation standards and relevant care/support legislation.
• Ability to provide effective oversight, leadership, and challenge.
• Excellent communication, record-keeping, and decision-making skills.
• Experience working with local authorities, commissioners, professionals, or regulatory bodies.
• Relevant leadership, health and social care, youth work, housing, or children’s services qualification desirable.
• Enhanced DBS required.
• Right to work in the UK.
• Ability to promote independence, safety, dignity, and positive outcomes for service users.