Children's Therapeutic Care Practitioner - Winsford, United Kingdom - Your Chapter

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Residential Care Worker - HSB Services


You will support young people being a positive and supportive role model, offering specialist services for those young people who present with inappropriate or harmful sexual behaviour.

You will become part of a team that works in a therapeutic and nurturing environment focusing on a child centred approach.

You will support safe social integration and offer a non-judgmental attitude to your daily work.


Our specialist teams within these homes have an outstanding track record in achieving longstanding positive outcomes for these young people.

Residential Care Workers will be actively involved working closely with internal and external stakeholders including education and clinical provisions.

You will communicate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams and be responsible for administration of medication, daily reporting and encouragement of personal care and hygiene.


Equality & Diversity
All young people are equally entitled to have their needs met in a fair and balanced way.

Therapeutic Care Practitioner are responsible for promoting equal opportunities for all and for challenging any behaviour or practice which discriminates against any young person or colleague on the grounds of race, religion, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, or any other perceived difference.


Duties and Responsibilities

Provide care for young people through:

  • Attending to practical matters in relation to childcare (cooking, cleaning etc)
  • Establishing positive relationships with young people and always offering them unconditional and positive regard
  • Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural, cultural and educational needs of young people
  • Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate prosocial ways of dealing with problems
  • Helping young people gain selfcontrol by challenging unacceptable behaviour and rewarding acceptable, prosocial conduct.
  • Ensuring that each young person's care plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs

To act as a key worker through:

  • Taking responsibility for a small number of young people and ensuring that their needs are fully met
  • Empowering young people and facilitating their active involvement in the decision making about their lives and future
  • Establishing relationships which young people perceive to be positive, warm and rewarding
  • Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties
  • Providing emotional support at times of difficulty or stress
  • Being ambitious for young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential
  • Providing support for young people in their education and extracurricular activities
  • Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager
  • Encouraging the young person to develop links with the community, attend offsite activities and expand their personal social network

General Responsibilities:


  • Attending young people's meetings and contributing to them
  • Receiving training appropriate to role and maintaining an uptodate training profile
  • Responsibility for the accurate maintenance of financial records appropriate to the duties of the post
  • Responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies
  • To carry out all other reasonable tasks as directed by the line manager
**This role will include shift work involving evenings, weekends and sleeps (including a sleep-in allowance)
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