Therapeutic Home Manager

1 Days Old

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
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
Hours Full time average 40 hours per week (includes some evening and weekend work and rota'd on-call duties) #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Location:
Littlehampton
Job Type:
FullTime

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