Child Care Worker

We are working with a well-established Therapeutic Home as a Child Care Worker. The perfect choice for your next career choice with children and young people. This is a full time role on a permanent contract.

To be considered for this role, you need to be experienced in dealing with challenging behaviour in a positive and strategic manner, following the ethos and approach of the client.

This is a 40-hour role on a rolling rota of early and late starts, so flexibility is required.

Our client offers a unique, holistic, and pupil-centred approach to the education and care of 7–19-year-olds who have not succeeded in mainstream provision, and operates an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ Children’s home, alongside a specialist school. Based in Hove, you will be part of a team of Child Care and Therapeutic Workers assisting young people with learning disabilities and mental health issues.

You will have responsibility for promoting and ensuring the safety, care, well-being, learning and development of the children to enable their growth in confidence and social and engage with their education.

The key duties of this role will include:

• The supervision and support of service users in their residential settings with a range of domestic activities such as cooking, shopping, cleaning and laundry.
• The supervision of the service users, including behaviour management, medication handling completion of relevant paperwork is required.
• You will have excellent communication skills, as well as experience of report writing and record keeping. You will also be expected to attend training sessions as required.

You will also be undertaking our 6-month work-based basic training programme that will equip you with the skills and knowledge allowing you to be considered for automatic promotion to Therapeutic Carer following relevant assessment.

If you would like to find out more, or apply for immediate consideration, please feel free to contact Louis Harris on the details below.

All applicants will require the appropriate qualifications and training for this role. Please see teachingpersonnel.com/faqs for details.

All pay rates quoted will be inclusive of 12.07% statutory holiday pay. This advert is for a temporary position. In some cases, the option to make this role permanent may become available at a later date.

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