Lead Practitioner

Would you like secure employment where you can progress your career?

Troup House School are recruiting for a Lead Practitioner now We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and passionate people to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will assist with the management of day-to-day operations within our services. Fundamental to your role will be the engagement in, and management of, each child’s plan and ensuring these plans are managed with the highest standards of care and professionalism.

**Our benefits include exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced PVG, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more**

Troup House School is a specialist day and residential school that has a strong reputation and proven track record for providing a high standard of education and care to young people between the ages of 8 to 16+ years with additional support needs including social, emotional and mental health difficulties, autistic spectrum conditions and challenging behaviour. Our young people may also experience difficulties with learning as a result of the effects of trauma, disrupted educational experiences and multiple residential placements.

The Lead Practitioner will:

- Ensure that staff employed within the service uphold in their practice and values the 5 Principles of the Health and Social Care Standards, My support, my life.
- Support with the leadership and management of both employees and resources to ensure that the services aims, culture and ethos are maintained and developed.
- Engage in activities that will promote the continuous improvement of the quality of experiences and outcomes for service users by supporting the staff who are delivering the service to be the best that they can be.

As a Lead Practitioner you are also required to in the absence of Senior Practitioners to manage both employees and resources to ensure high standards of service are achieved within the provision.

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress.

We require experience and following characteristics to be successful in this role:
**Resilience** - We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.

**Communication** - Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Positive working relationships, good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.

**Organisation** - Overseeing the effective implementation of care and independence programmes for our young people through the effective line management of the staff team and manage shift patterns on a rota basis.

**Caring** - Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.

**Attentive** - No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

**_ If you want to progress your career, Aspris Children’s Services will help you get there._**

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure Scotland and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.