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)