The role
As Therapeutic Home Manager, you will:
* · Lead and develop a residential staff team with clarity, warmth, authority, and care
* Hold the emotional and organisational life of the home
* Ensure consistently strong safeguarding, care planning, and regulatory compliance
* Work closely with our clinical and senior leadership teams within the wider therapeutic community
* Embed a culture of reflective practice, supervision, emotional containment, and accountability
* Support staff to think about behaviour, trauma, transference and relational dynamics — not just manage incidents
* Ensure the home offers children a lived experience of safety, reliability, thoughtfulness and care
You will be both manager and therapeutic leader — someone who can hold complexity, stay thoughtful under pressure, and support others to do the same
Who we are looking for
We are looking for someone who:·
* Has experience in therapeutic residential childcare
* Has worked as a Registered Manager, Deputy Manager or senior / team leader
* Is confident and competent with Children’s Homes Regulations, Ofsted, safeguarding and quality standards
* Is emotionally literate, reflective, and able to think about trauma, attachment and relational processes
* Can develop teams through containment, structure, modelling and care
* Leads from values — with warmth, clarity, accountability and humanity
You do need to be someone who believes that how we think, relate and lead matters.
We are a recognised therapeutic community, grounded in psychoanalytic and group-relations thinking
* Care, education and therapy are fully integrated, not siloed
* You will receive strong support from an experienced senior and clinical leadership team
* Reflective practice, supervision and emotional containment are built into organisational life
* We invest in training, development, and leadership growth
* You will be part of shaping the next chapter of a community focused on, stability and excellence
We offer:
* Company pension scheme with competitive contributions.
* Employee Health Cash Plan
* Group Life Insurance
* Fully funded weekly externally psychoanalytic psychotherapy as part of your own professional and emotional development
This is a role for someone who wants their leadership to mean something.
Hours: Full time average 40 hours per week (includes some evening and weekend work and rota’d on-call duties)