Residential Childcare Support Worker
A therapeutic school in Arundel are looking for a nurturing, energetic, confident, and adaptable Residential. This school and residential home, works and supports vulnerable children who have faced complex trauma, neglect, and abuse and due to this, have often missed periods of education. All children have an EHCP and follow individualised learning plans and strategies. The children are working at different levels and follow a different curriculum based on play and therapy.
This school is based in the rural area of Arundel, it is surrounded by fields of green and animals. Their large grounds include a sensory garden, adventure playground, a cabin library, a therapy suite and a Forest School. The staff believe in children learning through play and embracing the outdoors to facilitate their love of learning.
Not only does this school believe strongly in supporting children but also, they know their staff work incredibly hard and deserve the best. Staff and children are provided with home cooked food every mealtime, from locally sourced shops and cooked by a professional chef daily. All staff also have a clinical therapist and are supported by all staff within the school.
Most of the children that attend the school, also live at the residential home. The class teacher will carry out a handover every day, so the residential support worker is aware of how the day has gone.
Requirements-
This school and residential home are seeking a committed Residential Childcare Support Worker who can dedicate a minimum of a year to this school as the children require consistency and need to rely on their educators and care providers. Due to the nature of the children’s history, they often display challenging behaviour and therefore need a support worker who will show them unconditional support and love, that can remind them that it is okay to feel big emotions and help children re-build a love of learning and trust in others.
Requirements-
- Level 3 Residential Childcare is required.
- Patience, adaptability, energy
- Be committed to weekly sleep ins.
- To provide the children with consistent, reliable, and appropriate adult care, nurture, boundaries and attachment.
- To offer the children a positive, mature, trusted adult role model
- To work with other carers / teams in the home to provide essential and appropriate boundaries and structures for the children and planning and thought around transitions.
- To facilitate an environment that provides a feeling of safety, security, belonging and emotional containment and holding for all the children.
- To ensure the children are appropriately safeguarded, and reporting and recording policies and procedures are fully adhered to.
- To develop and use imaginative and creative thinking to enhance both the homes themselves and the children’s experiences within them.
- To be interested, responsive and understanding to the children’s behaviours and feelings and work on the basis that behaviour is a communication and will often stem from their previous traumatic experiences.
- To be inquisitive and reflective around behaviours and where this comes from and be sensitive and supportive to the children in helping them to manage these.
- As a last resort, to safely physically manage children whose behaviours put themselves, others or the environment at risk of harm.
- To be aware and able to acknowledge and reflect on one’s own feelings and responses evoked by the children and accept support and guidance in relation to this.
- To interact, play with and understand the importance of play to the children.
- To contribute to domestic tasks essential for the maintenance of a safe, healthy, warm and pleasant living physical environment and home for the children which facilitates our therapeutic milieu.
- To be actively involved in the development and implementation of children’s individual Therapeutic Care / Placement Plans, Risk Assessments and Positive Handling Plans and to regularly participate in the review of these care plans.
- To be responsible for preparing the children for school both physically and emotionally and in their safe transit to and from school and providing a handover to the education team
If you have a passion for changing children’s lives, for showing them unconditional love and care and for making a positive impact on their education- We would love to hear from you!
If you would like to visit the school before making a decision, a trial day can be organised for you!
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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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