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Therapeutic Home Manager

Job Posted: 16 days ago

Salary: £ 45,000 - 49,500 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Littlehampton, West Sussex

Expire in: 12 days

Job Description

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)

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