Children’s Residential Support Practitioners

1 week ago

Littlehampton, United Kingdom THE AMICUS COMMUNITY Full time

**Job Description & Person Specification for CHILDREN’S RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT PRACTITIONER**

**Accountable To**:
Registered and Therapeutic Home Manager

**Line Manager**:
Therapeutic Home Manager

**Hours of Work**:
Working on average 40 Hours per Week plus sleep-ins. This role includes unsociable hours and requires work during evenings and weekends.

**Salary**:
£25,500- £28,500 per annum

**ORGANISATIONAL PRIMARY TASK**
- “We work with children who have been seriously disturbed by early environmental failure to such an extent that their corresponding behaviour is unmanageable in ordinary homes and schools. The task is to provide a highly supervised and planned environment that integrates residential care and education and is underpinned by a rigorous therapeutic model and understanding. The aim is to help children understand the impact of their pasts and corresponding behaviours and feelings. Enabling them to manage healthy relationships, through which they can achieve the trust and self-esteem essential for their eventual reintegration into the community.”_

**MAIN DUTIES**
- To provide the children with consistent, reliable and appropriate adult care, nurture, boundaries and attachment.
- To offer the children a positive, mature, trusted adult role model.
- To be aware that it is through the children’s direct experiences of relationships with caring consistent and thoughtful adults that they will be able to both change, develop and grow. The task is therefore, as adults, is to actively provide the children with this type of relationship. (Therefore we ask for a commitment of at least 2 years for this role)
- To undertake Link Worker responsibilities and provide children with regular individual Link Worker sessions and therapeutic special times under strict supervision.
- To work with other carers / teams in the home and within Amicus to provide essential and appropriate boundaries and structures for the children and planning and thought around transitions.
- To facilitate an environment that provides a feeling of safety, security, belonging and emotional containment and holding for all the children.
- To ensure the children are appropriately safeguarded, and reporting and recording policies and procedures are fully adhered to.
- To develop and use imaginative and creative thinking to enhance both the homes themselves and the children’s experiences within them.
- To engage in reflective practice and work in accordance with our psychoanalytic and group relations model.
- To be interested, responsive and understanding to the children’s behaviours and feelings and work on the basis that behaviour is a communication and will often stem from their previous traumatic experiences. To be inquisitive and reflective around behaviours and where this comes from and be sensitive and supportive to the children in helping them to manage these.
- As a last resort, to safely physically manage children who’s behaviours put themselves, others or the environment at risk of harm
- To be aware and able to acknowledge and reflect on one’s own feelings and responses evoked by the children and accept support and guidance in relation to this.
- To interact, play with and understand the importance of play to the children.
- To plan, organise and provide for the children recreational, cultural and sporting activities as well as physical play that is both appropriately child centred and matches the emotional/intellectual development of the children.
- To be aware of and respond to the children’s medical and dental needs and to ensure they are met appropriately.
- To be aware of the children’s nutritional needs and to actively participate in food purchasing and preparation and the organising of creative menus.
- To contribute to domestic tasks essential for the maintenance of a safe, healthy, warm and pleasant living physical environment and home for the children which facilitates our therapeutic milieu.
- To actively participate in the staff training and development programme and to demonstrate a commitment to personal and professional development through training and learning.
- To attend and actively contribute to a range of community staff operational and clinical meetings
- To attend and actively contribute to Line Management Supervision and also individual and group clinical supervision and process meetings.
- To ensure recording and evidencing required in role is completed to a high standard in a timely manner and meets regulatory requirements as well as in accordance with our therapeutic model and evidences the good therapeutic practice taking place.
- To be actively involved in the development and implementation of children’s individual Therapeutic Care / Placement Plans, Risk Assessments and Positive Handling Plans and to regularly participate in the review of these care plans.
- To contribute to and prepare reports, attend statutory meetings where appropriate and take delegated responsibility for co

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