Reports To: Registered Manager
Professional Accountability: Head of Service
Location: Peterborough (travel across the county and surrounding areas as required)
Hours: 40 hours per week with flexibility to meet service needs and participate in the management on-call rota
Salary: £49,387 annual salary, dependent on experience and contracted hours.
Contract: Permanent
Responsible For: Therapeutic leadership, relational continuity, implementation of the formulation and ensuring a loving family home.
Purpose: Operational Deputy to the Registered Manager and guardian of therapeutic practice
About Nurture
Nurture Health and Care exists to support people, professionals and systems to move forward safely, compassionately and have a positive experience. Our purpose, 'Nurturing you to nurture others', is realised through psychologically safe leadership, relational practice and evidence-informed care.
Job Purpose
The Principal Therapeutic Practice Lead is the senior practice leader within the Intensive Community Support Service and the Operational Deputy to the Registered Manager. The post holder ensures that therapeutic thinking becomes therapeutic practice by embedding psychological formulations, EHCP outcomes, health plans, Youth Justice actions and multidisciplinary recommendations into everyday care. The role is the guardian of therapeutic practice, ensuring relational continuity, workforce rotas that embed relationships and consistent implementation of formulation-led support.
Leadership Expectations
- Be the guardian of therapeutic practice across the service.
- Provide professional leadership to Senior Intensive Support Practitioners.
- Create psychologically safe teams that value curiosity, reflection and learning.
- Ensure every child's formulation is understood and translated into daily practice.
- Champion relational continuity through stable staffing and therapeutic relationships.
- Deputise for the Registered Manager for regulatory compliance
- Translate advice from the Clinical Wraparound Team into practical interventions.
- Model Nurture values in every interaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as Operational Deputy to the Registered Manager.
- Lead implementation of formulations, EHCPs and therapeutic care plans.
- Coordinate changes arising from psychology, psychiatry, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, education and health reviews.
- Provide professional leadership to Senior ISPs and ISPs.
- Responsible for rota management and monitor therapeutic quality and relational continuity across all shifts.
- Support safeguarding, governance, quality improvement and learning reviews.
- Work collaboratively with commissioners, families, NHS, education, social care and Youth Justice across Cambridgeshire.
Pay and Benefits
In addition to your salary, Nurture offers:
- A structured induction and full competency-based training programme.
- Paid safeguarding, trauma-informed care and specialist practice training.
- Monthly protected development time.
- Regular supervision, reflective practice and professional support.
- Access to a competency passport and professional development portfolio.
- Opportunities for progression into senior practitioner, therapeutic practice, leadership and specialist roles.
- Annual leave entitlement of 5.6 weeks per annum.
- Pension contributions in line with statutory and organisational arrangements.
- Employee wellbeing support and access to a supportive, values-led team culture.
Start Date
- We are aiming for successful candidates to start from September 2026, subject to satisfactory references, enhanced DBS clearance, right-to-work checks and completion of pre-employment requirements.
- Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, and early applications are encouraged.
Competency-Based Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential: Relevant health, therapeutic, social care or education qualification or equivalent experience.
Desirable: Is familiar with therapeutic models
Leadership
Essential: Experience of development of rotas, staffing solutions which prioritise relational continuity
Desirable:Operational deputy or senior practice lead experience.
Therapeutic Practice
Essential: Trauma-informed, Developmental trauma formulation-led and relational practice.
Desirable: Psychologically informed environments.
Clinical Coordination
Essential: Working with multidisciplinary teams.
Desirable: Is able to coach or mentor others.
Safeguarding
Essential: Extensive safeguarding knowledge.
Diserable: Complex safeguarding experience.
Communication
Essential: Excellent partnership working.
Desirable: Commissioner/system leadership.
Personal Attributes
Essential: Compassion, integrity, emotional intelligence, resilience, curiosity and systems thinking.
Desirable: Research/QI experience.
Success in the First 12 Months
· Embed formulation-led practice across every shift.
· Establish stable relational staffing teams.
· Ensure consistent implementation of EHCPs and therapeutic plans.
· Develop confident Senior Intensive Support Practitioners.
· Embed reflective practice and workforce coaching.
· Demonstrate measurable improvements in stability, engagement and wellbeing.
Our Promise to You
You will be supported by the Registered Manager, Head of Service, Medical Director and Clinical Wraparound Team through executive supervision, leadership coaching, protected reflective practice, continuing professional development and a culture where learning is valued above blame.
Pay: £49,387.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
Work Location: In person
