Title: Therapeutic Manager
Reports to: Clinical Lead
Direct Reports: None
Location: evolve Therapeutic Residential Services, Otterden, Kent
Salary: £42,000 pa 35 hours per week (we would be willing to accept applicants on a part-time or full-time basis)

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking for a Therapeutic Manager to join our Residential Team.
As our Therapeutic Manager, you will work alongside our Residential Manager to provide clinical and therapeutic leadership within the home. You will be responsible for ensuring that our therapeutic thinking is embedded in daily practice and will support staff to reflect on their interactions with our young people whilst fostering a culture of trauma informed curiosity and compassionate practice. The role is central to creating a safe nurturing trauma-informed environment for children who have experienced significant adversity, trauma, and disrupted attachments. You will be part of the multi-disciplinary Therapeutic Service and will work directly within the Residential Service.

Key tasks include:

• Lead on embedding a consistent therapeutic approach (Therapeutic Parenting, PACE) throughout the home
• Facilitate reflective practice sessions with staff, encouraging curiosity and deeper clinical thinking
• Work alongside the Residential Manager to ensure care planning reflects therapeutic principles
• Provide guidance on therapeutic strategies for managing challenging and complex behaviours in a manner that promotes healing and growth
• Contribute to training and development of staff in trauma-informed therapeutic approaches
• Maintain close working relationships with external professionals (therapists, CAMHS, Social workers) to ensure integrated care
• Ensure therapeutic progress is documented and communicated effectively and efficiently.
• Model therapeutic language and practice in day-to-day interactions with our young people.
• Enable staff to recognise the impact that trauma plays on child development and how good therapeutic practise can help support their healing and growth.
• Ensuring evolve is run in line with the Government Legislation, Regulations and Standards, and Ofsted.
• Constantly represent evolve’s vision and values and maintain a commitment to anti-discriminatory ideology.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The role of Therapeutic Manager is to ensure the residential team work consistently within a therapeutic environment that supports our young people to achieve their potential. The main responsibilities are outlined below.

• Develop therapeutic practices and work responsively to support children.
• To promote a culture of reflection, curiosity and therapeutic practice with the home
• To oversee and guide the therapeutic aspects of each young person’s care plan and trauma profile
• To support staff resilience and wellbeing through reflective practice sessions.
• To work alongside the clinical lead to identify patterns of behaviour, trauma triggers, risk and/or emotional needs that will help populate the young person’s trauma profile.
• To maintain high standards of safeguarding and risk awareness, applying therapeutic thinking to risk management
• To contribute to Ofsted requirements by evidencing therapeutic practice across the home
• To work collaboratively alongside the clinical lead and the residential manager, ensuring consistency between operational and therapeutic practice across the home
• Develop safe and supportive relationships with our children and young people.
• Consistently implement evolve’s values of creating and working in an ethical, collaborative, and safe environment with integrity.
• Always maintain professional boundaries.
• Support the child’s relationships with other children in the home, support staff, professionals, friends and birth families, where appropriate.
• Support management in ensuring all needs of the children are met, and meets the National Minimum Standards for children’s homes
• Work to relevant legislation such as the Children’s Act and the Children’s Homes and Looked after Children Regulations.
• Maintain the highest standards of record keeping and ensure all logs are completed daily.