Registered manager membership

1. A printed copy of our Social care manager’s handbook

• The handbook is a comprehensive guide to key aspects of the registered manager role, set out in sections mapped against our Manager Induction Standards and the Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care, plus an additional section on digital leadership, skills and technology. Each section covers a particular area of the work of a registered manager, providing information, guidance and practical tips to support you in your day-to-day work.

2. Exclusive monthly newsletter

• Each month our newsletter brings you information, guidance and updates from Skills for Care, other organisations supporting the adult social care sector, and other registered managers. 

3. Good and outstanding care guide (Single Assessment Framework version)

• Members receive exclusive access to this comprehensive online guide about CQC inspection co-produced with The Outstanding Society. Each section explains how to prepare your service to evidence what you do around the 34 Quality Statements, backed-up with practical checklists to strengthen your quality assurance.

4. Exclusive annual resource when you renew your membership

• Every year the membership team produces a new resource exclusively for our renewing members. The resource for 2025/26 renewing members is a hard copy of ‘Developing new managers and deputies - a guide to effective succession planning.’
• Previous renewal resources have included 'A positive culture toolkit for adult social care', ‘Compassionate Leadership’ by Professor Michael West CBE and the third edition of the 'Good and outstanding care' guide.

5. The chance to train to become a mentor, or receive mentoring

• Our mentorship offer gives members who would like to develop their skills and support their peers as a mentor, the opportunity to join one of our mentoring workshops. Members are then given the opportunity to mentor another member.
• Members who wish to be mentored and receive advice and guidance about their current issues and development journey can request to take part, after which we will look to pair them with one of our mentors. 

6. Discounts on key resources, programmes and events

• Members receive discounts on a range of resources and events, including discounts on a variety of items in our bookshop. (These discounts are variable and subject to Skills for Care’s wider work activity.)

7. A membership certificate and logo

• Members can demonstrate their membership status, and their commitment to developing their knowledge and best practice, with our hard copy certificate, sent out to all new members alongside the Social care managers handbook.
• Members are also welcome to use our membership logo on their email and letters, to let other professionals know they are one of our valued registered manager members and part of a professional community of practice.

All members renewing their membership from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 will receive a hard copy of ‘Developing new managers and deputies - a guide to effective succession planning.’

Adult social care does not have enough managers to meet future needs and demand. Recognising this challenge, Skills for Care has consulted with employers to identify a practical step by step approach to embed this within your own internal processes. Informed by successful approaches adopted by small, medium, and larger providers, the guidance showcases the business benefits and potential costs savings of identifying talent and providing the right development opportunities to progress them into capable and confident future managers.

This new guide is closely aligned to the new Care Workforce Pathway focus on deputy managers and registered managers and we will distribute the guide once the pathway has been launched later this spring. The guide helps adult social care providers to review and refine existing succession planning approaches or consider embedding this into your plans helping to meet regulatory expectations, whilst creating new management opportunities for both your organisation and the wider sector.

Looking for a mentor?

By becoming a registered manager member, you have exclusive access to our bank of qualified mentors. You’ll be matched with another member who has been trained as a mentor, based on the areas of development you're looking for.

For more information, please email membership@skillsforcare.org.uk

Join our growing group of mentors

Our members have the opportunity to learn and practice skills in mentoring. They can choose to join our growing group of existing mentors who provide peer-to-peer support for other members.

We ask all members interested in joining our group of mentors to take part in one of our mentoring workshops, to learn concepts, skills and techniques around mentoring best practice. We run these workshops three times a year, both for our new mentors and as an opportunity for members to train and hone existing skills in mentoring.

Free mentoring workshops for registered manager members

New dates coming soon...

N.B. your membership number will be requested when booking to allow us to confirm proof of current membership – this can be found on your certificate, or on your membership page of our web portal.

Our mentors attend training to help them develop skills in mentoring, including techniques for questioning, listening and providing feedback, before being paired with a member to help them confront challenges and develop in their role.