Data, Reporting and Notifications Manager
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Job description
This is a senior and highly important role with responsibility across six upcoming residential homes, our wider reporting and governance infrastructure, and the systems needed to ensure that key data, notifications and records are accurate, timely, defensible and inspection-ready.
The successful candidate will lead all aspects of operational data control, regulatory reporting and management information across the organisation, ensuring that information relating to incidents, safeguarding, complaints, staffing, notifications, patterns, risk and service performance is complete, current and capable of withstanding scrutiny.
This role will work closely with our Registered Managers, Responsible Individuals, Children's Services Director, Governance and Compliance leadership, Safeguarding leads, Workforce and Onboarding teams, and wider operational colleagues. The postholder will play a central role in strengthening organisational visibility, evidence, assurance and accountability.
Why this role matters
Ofsted's updated children's homes SCCIF continues to place emphasis on children's experiences and progress, leadership oversight, suitability of care and the quality of evidence behind practice. The framework was updated on 1 April 2026, including a revised section on evaluating the experiences and progress of children.
Your uploaded SCCIF April 2026 summary also makes clear that inspectors now place greater emphasis on:
- placement stability
- transitions and admission decisions
- children's lived experience and progress
- leadership insight and continuous improvement
- impact over paperwork.
That makes this role strategically important. It is not simply an administrative post. It is a role that helps ensure the organisation can:
- notify correctly
- evidence accurately
- identify themes early
- escalate risk appropriately
- and present a clear, trustworthy picture of how children are being safeguarded and how services are performing.
The Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015 also place clear notification duties on providers, including notifications to relevant authorities in serious circumstances and notifications relating to admissions and discharges.
A role for someone who brings order, clarity and control
We are specifically looking for someone who can bring clarity, discipline and visibility to a fast-moving and highly regulated environment.
This means being able to:
- translate complex operational activity into accurate reporting and clear intelligence
- ensure key information is captured once, captured properly and used well
- strengthen the quality and consistency of records across homes
- support leaders to spot drift, themes, gaps and emerging concerns early
- help ensure that notifications, dashboards and evidential trails are timely, organised and defensible
This is a role for someone who understands that in children's services, good reporting is not just about data quality; it is about safeguarding, accountability, leadership oversight and inspection readiness. Your own uploaded policies already reflect this strongly, including the requirement for accurate, timely and transparent recording in areas such as missing-from-care, safeguarding and behaviour support., You will:
- lead on reporting systems, regulatory notifications and management information across the organisation
- ensure data relating to incidents, safeguarding, complaints, staffing, service activity and risk is accurate, timely and current
- oversee the quality and consistency of notifications and reporting to ensure compliance with internal procedures and regulatory requirements
- produce dashboards, trend analysis, compliance reports and evidential summaries for senior leadership and board-level oversight
- support audit readiness and evidence retrieval for registration, inspection, safeguarding review and quality assurance activity
- improve consistency, structure and reliability of reporting across all homes and relevant service areas
- work closely with governance, quality, safeguarding and operational teams to ensure that reporting supports real oversight and not merely record keeping
- identify anomalies, themes, drift, gaps and emerging risks early, escalating appropriately and helping leaders respond in a timely way
- support the creation and maintenance of strong audit trails across incidents, complaints, missing episodes, staffing activity, notifications and service performance
- help ensure that management information supports thoughtful, child-focused and evidence-based leadership decisions
- contribute to a culture of continuous learning and improvement so that reporting strengthens practice rather than sitting separately from it
What we are looking for
We are looking for an individual with strong experience in data, reporting, notifications, compliance administration, audit support or operational intelligence, ideally within a regulated care, health, education or public service environment., We offer flexibility in working arrangements and can accommodate remote, hybrid or office-based working, depending on the successful candidate and the needs of the role. Candidates may choose to work from any of our three office locations:
- Hertfordshire
- Devon
- Islamabad
Occasional travel across services will be required.
Why join us?
This is an opportunity to help build the reporting and evidential backbone of an ambitious specialist provider at a pivotal stage of growth. We are building a group of children's residential homes for children with complex needs, and we are doing so with clear intent: to create services that are safe, well governed, inspection-ready and worthy of the trust placed in us by children, families, local authorities and regulators.
You will help shape the infrastructure that allows leaders to see clearly, act early and govern well. In a sector where Ofsted has highlighted rising application volumes, increasing pressure on registration systems, and active enforcement activity, strong notifications, accurate reporting and defensible evidence matter enormously. The Ofsted webinar you uploaded notes that there were 4,010 registered children's homes as at 31 March 2025, that applications continue to rise sharply, and that Ofsted carried out 75 restrictions of accommodation, 36 suspensions of registration, and 12 notices of proposal to cancel registration in the year to 31 March 2025.
For the right person, this role is a chance to do work that is both technically important and operationally meaningful: bringing clarity, control and assurance to services where detail matters and where the quality of information can directly affect children's safety and outcomes., * your experience in data, reporting, notifications, compliance administration or operational intelligence
- your experience in regulated services or comparable high-accountability environments
- your approach to maintaining accuracy, identifying trends and supporting leadership oversight
- why you believe you are the right person to help strengthen our reporting and evidential assurance as we grow
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £42,000.00-£55,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Gym membership
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Requirements
- significant experience in data reporting, management information, compliance administration or operational intelligence
- excellent Excel and systems capability, together with strong attention to detail
- experience of working in a regulated environment, ideally within children's services, social care, healthcare or education
- the ability to turn complex operational information into clear, useful and decision-ready insight
- a strong understanding of the importance of timely, accurate and defensible record keeping
- confidence in working with sensitive information, deadlines, patterns and exceptions
- strong written English and the ability to present information clearly and professionally
- the confidence to work with senior leaders and operational teams to improve data quality and reporting discipline
- a highly organised, dependable and methodical working style
- a genuine commitment to supporting safe, well-governed and high-quality services for children
Essential
- Significant experience in data reporting, compliance administration, management information, audit support or operational intelligence within a regulated or high-accountability environment.
Desirable
- Experience of working within children's residential care, social care, healthcare, education or a comparable regulated sector.
- Experience of supporting Ofsted-regulated services or preparing evidence for inspection, audit or registration activity.
- Experience of reporting on incidents, safeguarding, complaints, staffing, notifications and service quality.
- Experience of working across multi-site, fast-growth or operationally complex organisations.
- Strong systems confidence, including Excel and reporting tools.
- An understanding of the importance of children's homes notifications, safeguarding records and evidential assurance., * Bachelor's (required)
Experience:
- Data, Reporting and Notifications: 5 years (required)
Language:
- English (required)
Benefits & conditions
- Competitive pension scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Health and wellbeing support
- Sick pay
- Holiday pay
- Generous annual leave entitlement, increasing with length of service
- Ongoing training, development and progression opportunities
- Excellent opportunities for career advancement within an ambitious and expanding organisation
Colleagues based at or visiting our Hertfordshire headquarters at Sopers House may also benefit from access to a premium working environment and a range of additional amenities, including gym facilities, swimming pool access, health and wellbeing classes, social and networking events, and private members' club-style workspace and facilities.
Benefits may vary depending on location, working arrangement and operational requirements.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Frontline Social Care is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace in which everyone is treated with dignity and respect. We welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates of all backgrounds and are committed to fair, transparent and safer recruitment practices. We will make reasonable adjustments where required throughout the recruitment process and during employment. Selection for employment will be based on merit, skills, experience and suitability for the role. This reflects the importance of equality, inclusion and anti-discriminatory practice across children's homes leadership and decision-making.
Safeguarding statement
Frontline Social Care is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All appointments are subject to robust safer recruitment procedures, including enhanced DBS checks, satisfactory references, right to work checks, and any further checks required for working in children's services. Your uploaded statutory guidance map also highlights the centrality of safer recruitment, safeguarding duties, missing-from-care guidance and wider children's homes statutory obligations.
