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)