The Lioncare Group currently has 1 residential placement vacancy for children aged 6-11 on admission (at Westfields Children's Home) and is happy to consider and accept appropriate referrals for our homes, and offer a placement (with or without specialist SEMH therapeutic education at The Lioncare School) following a thorough matching process. If you wish to contact us regarding referrals, we have a dedicated e-mail address for this: referrals@lioncare.co.uk
Alternatively, you can contact us on 01273 720424 if you wish to discuss in more detail a specific referral.
Location Age on Admission Vacancies
Our School 6-15 yrs 0 Springfields 6-12 yrs 0 Westfields 6-12 yrs 1 Hillfields 12-16 yrs 0
The Lioncare Group is now looking for a Senior Therapeutic Carer to join our team at Westfields Children’s Home
Working in our therapeutic children’s home and supporting children attending our therapeutic SEMH independent school, your role will work collaboratively with and assist the registered manager and deputy manager in their task of managing the home safely and effectively, ensuring all regulatory requirements are met, and attending to the everyday and complex needs of the children in our care. You will help them manage their sometimes challenging behaviours, support them in understanding and managing their conflicted emotions and behaviours, work collaboratively with your colleagues and managers and other professionals to achieve the agreed outcomes for each child within a group-living setting, and offer each child and the group as a whole real and meaningful experience of living, relating, and learning.
You will be a member of the home’s management team, attending management team meetings, and actively helping develop and improve the quality of care provided by the home and the wider organisation of The Lioncare Group. You will take up responsibility for providing practice-based supervision to a small group of your team colleagues, guiding their practice, and coordinating and effectively managing shifts.
Further details about each children’s home can be found in the therapeutic residential care section of this website. Further details of the tasks and responsibilities of a senior therapeutic carer can be found in the relevant job description below.
Starting basic annual salary ranges based on a 40-hour working week:
* £26,457.00 (£12.72 p.h.): scale-point STC1 new senior therapeutic carer
* £28,142.00 (£13.53 p.h.): scale-point STC5 top of scale
All scale-point levels can also earn up to approx. £2,489.00 in additional pay through undertaking sleep-in and special bank holiday duties.
In addition to competitive pay with clear salary progression, we also offer:
* opportunities for additional duties and bonus payments (that can significantly increase your earning potential)
* company-paid sickness allowance
* employee group healthcare scheme funded by The Lioncare Group for all employees
* initial 2-week orientation and a comprehensive 6-month basic training and induction programme
* a training package worth approx. £3,500.00 per employee
* excellent ongoing training and commitment to investing in your continuous professional development, including therapeutic models and reflective practice, leadership and management, designated safeguarding lead, and further post-graduate opportunities for the right candidate
* fully funded and supported attendance on our accredited level 3 diploma in therapeutic childcare and education
* effective support through regular practice-based and reflective supervision, guidance, ongoing experiential learning, and coaching from both our executive team and external consultancy
* working in one of the country’s leading providers of integrated therapeutic childcare and education
* a supportive, caring, and understanding working environment
* real job satisfaction
* a chance to make a real difference in the lives of children
In line with our safer recruitment policy and safeguarding practice, there are no circumstances where a CV is an appropriate application method for employment with The Lioncare Group, and only a fully completed application form will be accepted.
References will always be followed up and any offer of employment is always subject to pre-employment checks being undertaken; these include confirmation of a satisfactory enhanced DBS and a thorough check for any prohibitions, sanctions, and restrictions that might prevent you from taking part in certain activities or working in specific positions.
Springfields Therapeutic Children's Home is Outstanding
The Lioncare Group is the operating name for Lioncare Ltd, established in 1991, and primarily concerned with therapeutic residential childcare, therapeutic special education, and therapeutically informed specialist training and learning and consultancy provision.
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