Your newpany
This is a 5-bed home, supporting 11-17 year olds with EBD, and have recently been able to maintain capacity for 5 young people. The home is also mixed gendered, and has typically had a mix of 2–3 females or 2–3 males at any given time. Most of the young people have free time for themselves out in themunity, and rarely require 1:1 support. However, most of the young people require support to access education, and all of the young people require staff support whilst out in themunity to spend and manage their allowances. The needs tend to be more of the ‘traditional’ needs within residential care, and the therapeutic approaches to managing and understanding these risks is key. Young people can and will display challenging behaviour, both within the home and out in themunity.Some of the typical needs they support are:
1. At risk of criminal exploitation (county lines, theft)
2. Managing safe and positive relationships
3. Accessing and engaging in Education
4. Managing emotions leading to threats of or actual physical aggression
5. Substance misuse; typically cannabis and alcohol
6. Missing episodes/ absconding
7. Understanding/ safeguarding their own sexual health
8. Managing their free time effectively/ safely
9. CSE risk both in themunity and online
Your new role
The key skills you will need for this role are:
10. Be very aware of the outside influences/ risks to young people in the inner-city environment.
11. Can build a great rapport with young people who need to be exposed to positive activities to engage with in themunity.
12. Resilient to challenging behaviour
13. Maturity within the role, both professionally and personally
14. Can set clear expectations for behaviour in a professional way
15. Can work within a team to be vigilant around the home and in the immediate locality of the home.
16. Can bring elements of fun to the role and will be willing to engage in activities with the young people.
17. Understanding of the missing protocol and works with us to go above and beyond on our efforts to safeguard when young people are missing.
What you'll need to succeed
18. 3 years of experience supporting young people with challenging behaviour within a residential care setting
19. You will need to be physically and mentally strong to cope with the challenges of this role
20. Available to work full time (average 39 hours per week), and be able to cover some weekends and bank holidays
21. Ideally have NVQ L3 in Residential Childcare (or equivalent), or be willing to work towards it
What you'll get in return
22. Opportunity to work towards L3 qualification (if required), and further career progression
23. DBS checkpleted by client (if required)