Be a part of the revolution with evolve…
About Evolve Therapeutic Children’s Services:
At evolve, we strive to provide an evidence-based therapeutic service recruiting Foster parents and Residential staff across the South-East.
Set in the Kent countryside, evolve Therapeutic Children’s Services will be establishing its first therapeutic residential children’s home. Our exceptional residential service will also provide education, forest schooling, educational spaces and therapeutic treatment rooms, sensory spaces, which will provide an all-inclusive, safe, and nurturing environment in which children and young people can begin to heal from their trauma and make sense of their world.
Staffing ratios will be on a 1:1 basis, with additional clinical support from internal Clinical Psychologists, and Psychotherapists. Our care, treatment and education staff will receive clinical training, and have access to fortnightly reflective practice.
The residential offering will provide specialist 24/7 treatment and therapeutic education for children with complex psychological, emotional, and behavioural needs. We are different and unique, and extremely passionate about changing the face of care. Our unique evidence-based therapeutic approach puts children at the centre of our team and ensures the child or young person’s voice is encompassed in all that we do.
Our trauma-informed Residential Services aim to ensure our children are well looked after and that their needs are attended to throughout their stays with us. Receiving unrivalled access to our Therapeutic consultants provides children with the best possible care in a safe and loving environment.
About you:
* For you, caring for vulnerable young people is more than a job. It is a calling.
* Do you want to help those who may have experienced early years trauma or loss?
* Are you looking for a career, a chance to develop and progress into leadership roles?
Qualifications and Training:
Evolve are committed to the learning and development of its staff and full comprehensive training will be offered to all new starters. There will be an intensive induction period. During your 6 month probationary period you are expected to complete your induction, after which there will be the opportunity to complete level 3 Diploma in Children & Young People, which is a statutory requirement, those seeking to progress into managerial roles will have access to the level 5 Diploma in Leadership & Management.
Evolve's residential staff will have weekly training sessions and courses, delivered by a mixture of internal and external agencies as well as regular access to both supervision and reflective spaces. Evolve group services are proud to boast an in-house Clinical Service named Connect B4 Correct whom we will work closely with to ensure our training package is catered to our specific young people and staff group.
All staff members undertake appropriate Safeguarding training starting at basic induction and including refresher training at regular intervals. The training includes awareness regarding CSE and the radicalisation of children and young people, regular refreshers provide a continued update to reflect changes in guidance, policy, and legislation.
Key Responsibilities of the role:
1. Lead the shift to ensure the smooth running of the children’s home.
2. Supervise your team regularly to ensure they have a space for discussion, reflection, growth, challenge, and individualised support.
3. Lead the home to remain effective, communicative, and efficient in the absence of Management.
4. Be child focused and aspirational for our children. Be driven to demand more and set high standards for your team.
5. Be responsible for keys, money, administering medication, and auditing within the home. Maintain Evolve's high standards.
6. Possess excellent written and spoken communication skills.
7. Ensure that the children and young people’s physical, emotional, and social needs are met in a loving, safe, secure, nurturing, and supportive environment.
8. Ensure that Evolve maintains accurate records for the children and young people through the use of our recording procedures and platforms.
9. Contribute to the all-round daily care of the children and young people. This requires you to work as a part of a team, including multi-agency working.
10. Work with our delivery partners to ascertain the young people's individualised needs, supporting in the preparation and writing of supporting documentation.
11. Be an effective, aspirational, hands-on member of the home's staff group.
12. Be a key part of the children and young people’s lives, sharing hobbies, interests, and supporting all aspects of their life including activities, education, and contact, and be confident to provide guidance and advice. You are a role model.
13. Share immediately with the home's management any concerns regarding any practice, care, or suspicions you have. We promote an open culture.
14. Be flexible and available to support the young people and your colleagues.
15. Keep up to date with training and coursework developments in the profession by reading professional journals and other relevant publications.
16. Communicate professionally and effectively with children and families, other team members, courts, and professionals from statutory and voluntary sector agencies and private sector organisations as and when needed.
17. Maintain knowledge of legislation, policy, and practice procedures relating to children and young people within Evolve, including Data Protection Act, Health and Safety at Work Act and other relevant legislation, ensuring appropriate security and confidentiality of information in relation to records maintained and tasks undertaken.
18. Be available to attend weekly Staff Team Meetings and development, reflective practice meetings, get-together meetings, and support the young people to attend and contribute to their meetings. This includes CIC reviews, PEPs, EHCP, and Therapy reviews.
19. Be part of the out-of-hours on-call team for the group.
20. Any tasks asked of you by your Line Manager, Registered Manager, or the Director of Children’s Services.
In order to provide appropriate care to our children and young people, a shift pattern is worked out providing 24-hour support. Staff are required to work some unsociable hours, including evenings, bank holidays, weekends, and other times of the year including Christmas and New Year. The average hours are 40 per week, plus sleeping-in duties once or twice a week. More than 8 sleep-ins per month are paid at £60 per sleep-in. Staff are required to work additional hours when required to meet the needs of the community and will be offered time off in lieu if their hours exceed an average of 40 hours.
Hours and sleep-ins completed will be reviewed and either renumerated or time off in lieu will be given on a three-month basis.
There is also a community holiday, and all therapeutic care workers are required to take part. This could mean being away from home for several days.
Annual Leave:
The post attracts 30 holiday days per year (April to March). In order to provide stability and predictability for the children, holidays are booked in advance and require approval from your line manager. Holidays are not approved during key times for the community such as over Christmas or during the community holiday. Exceptional cases will be considered by the Director and HR.
Pension Scheme:
You will be automatically enrolled onto the Evolve group services Pension Scheme, offered by Nest. Evolve will pay 3% and your contributions will be 5%. These contributions are as set by legislation. Cases can be discussed with the Finance Group Manager on an individual basis. If you wish to opt out of the pension scheme, you can do so in writing to the group HR Manager.
Accountability:
Every member of the organisation has a duty to report Safeguarding/Child Protection concerns to their line manager or the community designated safeguarding lead. Immediate steps must be taken to prevent the child from harm or further harm. These should be agreed with the most senior person available. It is the responsibility of the Registered Manager or Responsible Person (or the designated safeguarding lead) to inform statutory agencies who may instigate a Child Protection investigation. This will include the child’s social worker and parents; the police as necessary; safeguarding Children Board’s MASH team within the host authority.
The ongoing training, supervision, and reflective practice sessions work together to ensure that all Evolve's employees are clear about their responsibility to work together to safeguard children. These systems ensure that all remain aware of policy and practice areas which impact on our shared ability to safeguard children. All staff are reminded that they must remain alert to the potential indicators of abuse or neglect, and this includes within the home from colleagues or other young people.
The Team Leader post also requires the individual to commit to becoming part of the on-call rota, being available on a rota’d basis to provide out-of-hours support to the home’s adults.
Equal opportunities for all, including recruiting ex-offenders:
Evolve is committed to being an equal opportunities employer. All applicants and staff are treated equally and given the same set of opportunities regardless of their age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, culture, or any other personal characteristic that might be discriminated against.
As an organisation, we use the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to assess applicants’ suitability for working with vulnerable children. Evolve complies fully with the DBS Code of Practice and undertakes to treat all applicants fairly. We undertake not to discriminate unfairly against any subject of a disclosure on the basis of conviction or other information revealed. Because of the nature of our work with vulnerable children & young people, an Enhanced disclosure is required.
All application forms and recruitment briefs will contain a statement that a Disclosure will be requested in the event of an individual being offered the position. Where a Disclosure is to form part of the recruitment process, all applicants invited for interview will be asked to provide details of their criminal record and this will be discussed sympathetically and confidentially as a part of the process.
The recruitment Process:
Evolve has comprehensive recruitment and selection procedures, as an organisation we follow safer recruitment guidelines to ensure that our children and young people are safeguarded. Evolve provides supervisions, “six monthly check-ins,” and continued CPD to ensure all of our staff develop in their roles to meet the highest standards of service delivery, disciplinary, and whistleblowing procedures which must be complied with at all times.
If you would like to apply or have any questions, then we would love to hear from you!
Please get in touch and send your CV to ls@evolvegroupservices.co.uk or call us on 07506 297321 / 01795 342425 to discuss this exciting opportunity further.
Evolve is committed to safeguarding children above all else. We follow safer recruitment guidelines, and all job offers will be subject to satisfactory references and an enhanced criminal record check from the Disclosure and Barring Service, carried out by our HR department.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £34,500.00 per year
Benefits:
* On-site parking
Schedule:
* Day shift
* Night shift
* Weekend availability
Application question(s):
* Do you have a valid driver's license?
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 29/11/2024
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