Job Description

Title:

Therapeutic Manager

Reports to:

Clinical Lead

Direct Reports:

None

Location:

evolve Therapeutic Residential Services, Otterden, Kent

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alary:

42,000 pa 35 hours per week (we would be willing to accept applicants on a part-time or full-time basis)

About evolve Therapeutic Children's Services:

Set in the Kent countryside, our exceptional residential service also provides forest schooling, educational spaces, therapeutic treatment rooms and sensory spaces, which will provide an all-inclusive, safe, and nurturing environment in which children and young people can begin to heal from their trauma and make sense of their world.

Our first Residential Home can look after 4 children between the ages of 7 and 18.

Staffing ratios are on a 1:1 basis, with additional clinical support from internal Clinical Psychologists, and Psychotherapists. Our care, treatment and education staff receive clinical training, and have access to fortnightly reflective practice.

The residential offering provides specialist 24/7 treatment and therapeutic education for children with complex psychological, emotional, and behavioural needs. We are different and unique, and extremely passionate about changing the face of care. Our unique evidence-based therapeutic approach puts our children and staff at the centre of our team and ensures the child or young person's voice is encompassed in all that we do.

Our trauma-informed Residential Services aim to ensure our children are well looked after and that their needs are attended to throughout their stays with us. Receiving unrivalled access to our Therapeutic consultants provides children with the best possible care in a safe and loving environment

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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.

Essential Criteria:

In depth understanding of working with children and young people who have experienced trauma, abuse or neglect In-depth understanding of child development, attachment theory and the impact of trauma Strong knowledge and practical experience of therapeutic parenting approaches, particularly the PACE Model Ability to lead reflective practice sessions with staff Skilled in supporting staff to manage challenging behaviour through therapeutic responses rather than punitive Experience of working in residential childcare settings, CAMHS, fostering or a therapeutic setting Robust understanding of the presentations of Complex and Developmental Trauma. Emotional resilience and capacity to model self-regulation in high stress situation Proven ability to provide and enhance understanding of therapeutic theoretical concepts. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with fluent English proficiency. Active, energetic, creative, outgoing, and empathic character. Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice Understanding of responsibilities in protecting one's health, safety, and wellbeing, as well as that of colleagues and others. Possession of a full driving license.

Desirable:

Qualification in a relevant therapeutic discipline (e.g. psychotherapy, counselling, systemic practice, trauma-informed interventions). Experience of delivering training in therapeutic approaches Knowledge of regulatory frameworks for Residential Childcare (e.g. Ofsted) Experience in assessment and intervention.

Useful information.

Working hours:

35 hours per week. Monday- Friday 09:00-17:00. On occasion, shift work may be required.

Annual Leave:

The post attracts 30 holiday days per year (April to March) plus an additional day for your birthday. In order to provide stability and predictability for the children, holidays are booked in advance and require approval from your line manager

Pension Scheme:

You will be automatically enrolled onto the evolve group services Pension Scheme pension, offered by Nest. evolve will pay 3% and your contributions will be 5%. These contributions are as set by legislation. Cases can be discussed with the Finance Group Manager and is on an individual basis.

Accountability:

Every member of the organisation has a duty to report Safeguarding/Child Protection concerns to their line manager or the community designated safeguarding lead. Immediate steps must be taken to prevent the child from harm or further harm. These should be agreed with the most senior person available. It is the responsibility of the Registered Manager or Responsible Person (or the designated safeguarding lead) to inform statutory agencies who may instigate a Child Protection investigation. This will include the child's social worker and parents; the police as necessary; safeguarding Children Board's MASH team within the host authority.

The ongoing training, supervision, and consultancy, sessions, work together to ensure that all evolve's employees are clear about their responsibility to work together to safeguard children. These systems ensure, that all remain aware of policy and practice areas which impact on our shared ability to safeguard children. All staff are reminded that they must remain alert to the potential indicators of abuse or neglect, and this includes within the home from colleagues or other young people.

Equal opportunities for all, including recruiting ex-offenders:

evolve are committed to being an equal opportunities employer. All applicants and staff are treated equally and given the same set of opportunities regardless of their age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, culture, or any other personal characteristic that might be discriminated against.

As an organisation using the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to assess applicants' suitability for working with vulnerable children, evolve complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants fairly. We undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a Disclosure on the basis of conviction or other information revealed. Because of the nature of our work with vulnerable children & young people, an Enhanced Disclosure is required.

All application forms and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that a Disclosure will be requested in the event of an individual being offered the position. Where a Disclosure is to form part of the recruitment process, all applicants invited for interview will be asked to provide details of their criminal record and this will be discussed sympathetically sand confidentially as a part of the process.

The recruitment Process:

evolve has comprehensive recruitment and selection procedures. As a service, we follow safer recruitment guidelines to ensure that our children and young people are safeguarded. evolve provide supervisions, "check ins" to ensure all of our staff develop in their roles to ensure we meet the highest standards of service delivery, disciplinary and whistleblowing procedures which must be complied with at all times.

If you would like to apply or have any questions, then we would love to hear from you!

Please get in touch and send your CV to enquiries@evolvegroupservices.co.uk to discuss this exciting opportunity further.

evolve are committed to safeguarding children above all else. We follow safer recruitment guidelines, and all job offers will be subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service, carried out by our HR department.

Job Types: Full-time,

Pay: Up to 42,000 pa.

Benefits:

Company pension

Free parking

On-site parking

Schedule:

Day shift

Monday to Friday

Occasional shift work

Ability to commute/relocate:

Kent, ME13 0BY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Licence/Certification:

Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: Up to 42,000.00 per year

Expected hours: No more than 35 per week

Benefits:

Company pension Free parking On-site parking
Ability to commute/relocate:

Faversham ME13 0BY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: In person