Children's Homes Practitioner

**Full-time, permanent basis (40hrs per week)**
- **Shift work including weekends, public holidays, and willing to attend residential holidays with the children during school holidays**
- **Salary: £23,795.20 basic, OTE up to £29,000 per annum including sleep ins and overtime (£45.00 per sleep on weekdays and £50 per sleep in at weekends)**
- **Location: Burghfield, Berkshire, RG7**

**About the Children's Homes Practitioner role**:
As a Children's Homes Practitioner, you will act as a positive role model for the children within Amegreen Children’s Services, offering care and support based on structure, consistency, and nurturing as part of day-to-day living, always ensuring the safety of each child.

**No prior work experience necessary** as full training and support is provided, you will also be **enrolled into a diploma (Level 3 Children and Young People)** which will be funded by Amegreen (terms and eligibility will be reviewed prior to an interview).

If you have a passion for helping children and are eager to contribute to the growth and success of our services as our **Children's Homes Practitioner**, then please click “apply” now - We’d love to hear from you

**Key Duties** (not limited to)
- Being intuitive to children’s needs, both physical and emotional
- Being alert to any indication of stress or abuse and reporting accordingly
- Promoting good personal hygiene among all children
- Communicating with parents, teachers, therapists, and social workers
- Facilitating family contact when appropriate
- Listening to, guiding, and advising children sensitively, offering comfort during challenging times and sharing their joy when appropriate
- Being aware of Child Protection issues, guidelines, and procedures
- Carrying out administrative duties and maintaining accurate records and reports

**Skills and experience**:

- Ability to manage personal/professional boundaries/personal authority
- Ability to engage in a variety of activities to develop and sustain appropriate relationships with the children
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to work under pressure and cope with stress
- Good organisation/Prioritising skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Physical ability to meet the demands of the role

**Benefits**:
**Holiday**
- Private use of company caravan (when not in use for our children)
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)

**Progression**
- We want to support you with your career; therefore, we’ll give you the support you need to progress and develop your skills.

**Medical and Wellbeing**
- Health Cash Plan - claim back from healthcare and wellbeing appointments such as dentists, opticians, sports massages plus many more.
- Free Flu jabs
- Sick pay (after probationary period)
- Employee Assistance Programme

**Financial**
- **Salary**, we are offering you a competitive base salary of **£23,795.20** for 40 hours per week
- **Bonus** - you will be required to do a minimum of 1 sleep-in per week, £45 per weekday and £50 at the weekend, that’s a **potential bonus of £2,600** but you can **earn more if you wish to do additional sleep-ins**:

- Company pension
- Childcare support scheme
- Car scheme available for Electric vehicle leases
- Cycle to Work scheme

**Discounts**
- All employees are eligible for the Blue Light Card, this offers amazing discounts on, family days out, holidays, cinema trips, retail stores plus more
- Discount on driving lessons from our recommended instructors.
- Discounts with local companies including a Leisure Centre and Chiropractor

**Reward and Recognition**
- Long service award - discretionary bonus after 5, 10 and 15 years of employment with Amegreen
- Employee of the month discretionary reward

**Referrals**
- Recommend a friend and earn up to £500

**Equality and Diversity**:
Amegreen is committed to being an organisation that allows people to be their authentic selves in a safe and inclusive environment.

**Safeguarding and GDPR**:
Adherence to Safeguarding and GDPR requirements and training on these policies and processes is mandatory for all employees. All employees are expected to understand and promote effective Safeguarding and GDPR practices in all aspects of their employment with Amegreen Children’s Services.

**How to apply