Deputy Head of Care

3 months ago

Wokingham, United Kingdom Barnardo's Full time

High Close is a successful non maintained special school offering day and residential provision for young people with complex Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs. Staff within the residential care teams support young people to be able to access their education and provide a waking day curriculum to enable them to learn and develop social skills and coping strategies whilst providing them opportunities to experience new challenges and adventures.

It's a challenging environment, calling for resilience, patience and tolerance, helping us to ensure children can achieve success in a safe environment. Staff have the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary team including Education, Therapy and both day and residential Care teams. Staff are given extensive training to meet the needs of the young people including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention.

This is an excellent opportunity to work within our professional and highly motivated team as the Deputy Head of Care.

The successful applicant will have a good understanding of the additional needs of our young people and experience of working with children and young people within a SEMH special school or similar environment.

You will work closely with the Head of Care to lead the care provision at High Close School. You will have good understanding and knowledge of the National Minimum Standards for Residential Special Schools and how to implement them within the residential units. You will support the leadership and management of the day and residential provision and also the Family Resource Team.

Barnardo's offers various opportunities and benefits to staff such as an Employee Assistance Programme which offers support to employees and their families and various other incentives such as the Employee benefit schemes where staff can access discounts for high street stores and popular activities.

For further information please contact Natalie Potter on 0118 9785767

Barnardo's Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment.-
- Read further about our commitment to safeguarding and our pre-employment checks in our applicant information sheet below.-
- About Barnardo's

At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

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