Senior Therapeutic Parent - Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom - Dovetail & Slate

Dovetail & Slate
Dovetail & Slate
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Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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Passionate about working with Children and Young People?


This company is one of the UK's leading therapeutic residential childcare providers, specialising in providing care for children who have been disadvantaged through circumstances beyond their control.

As an employee you will have vast experience in caringfor, nurturing, developing and creating positive outcomes for children and young people living within the home.

Essentially you will be an acting parent for these children and care for them as you would your own child.

This organisation does not just carefor the children and young people placed with them, but also its employees.

Internal promotion and career advancement have always been a cornerstone of their success with a large emphasis on the learning and development of staff.

With the industry as it isright now, there has never been a better time to become a Senior Therapeutic Parent.


Experience and Qualifications:


  • NVQ / Diploma Level 3 Residential ChildCare
  • Children/Young People
  • 2 years experience as a Senior Support Worker in a Residential Children's Home.

Main duties:


  • To work very closely with the Deputy Therapeutic Parents and Management to ensure the running of the home is to a high standard meeting Ofsted Quality Standards.
  • To contribute to the development of the child through the provision of a therapeutic home environment and being a committed and consistent adult role model.
  • To be assigned as a key worker or cokey worker to a Halliwell child and to provide a high standard level of care throughout.
  • To provide warmth and care for our children providing personal care needs, cooking, 2 of 5 cleaning, washing, shopping and budgeting pocket monies or by promoting our children to carry out such tasks themselves, where appropriate.

Key Responsibilities:


  • To promote a healthy lifestyle and demonstrate positive and consistent adult role model behaviours.
  • To assist assessing the development and approaches to the Restorative Parenting index's and measure children's progress against the RPI.
  • To understand each individual child with a commitment to a mindful relationship with the children remaining emotionally attuned with a willingness to understand how the world feels from the child's perspective.
  • Ability to build trust with children and offer strategies to help children manage their inner anxieties and manage their feelings and behaviour.

Salary:

- £28,300 - £31,100 (dependant on experience and qualifications)

  • If this vacancy is not of interest to you at this time, but you happen to know someone who might be suitable and interested, then please kindly pass these details on to them._

Important Notice


Dovetail and Slate is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff, applicants and clients to share this commitment.

Because education matters. Dovetail and Slate Limited acts as an Employment Agency.
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