Senior Therapeutic Parent

Senior Therapeutic Parent

**Accountable to**: Registered Manager / Lead Deputy Manager /
Deputy Manager

**Responsible for**: N/A

**Hours**: Monday - Sunday - available for shifts 24/7
365 days per year and sleeps

**Location**: [Main Base Location: one of four homes
(identified at Interview Stage). May be required
to work at other homes].

**Job Purpose**

A Senior Therapeutic Parent will deliver Halliwell’s Restorative Parenting®
recovery
programme offering sensitive and caring re-parenting to children aged between 4 and 12
(at the time of placement) who have experienced trauma in their lives. Caring for children
who can at times display complex and challenging behaviours the post holder will offer
therapeutic parenting techniques to meet the children’s’ social, emotional, cultural and
educational needs. The post holder will also assist in the day to day running of the home
including domestic duties and paperwork / record keeping working closely with onsite
deputy lead therapeutic parents, clinical and education teams to provide tailored
psychological recovery programmes for each child. A therapeutic, safe, healthy and
homely environment will need to be in place at all times to meet Ofsted’s Quality
Standards.

The post holder will be committed to continual professional development including training
in Restorative Parenting® to enable psychological recovery of children.

**Main Duties**

Day to Day
To work very closely with the Deputy Therapeutic Parents and Management to ensure the
running of the home is to a high standard meeting Ofsted Quality Standards.
To contribute to the development of the child through the provision of a therapeutic home
environment and being a committed and consistent adult role model.
To be assigned as a key worker or co-key worker to a Halliwell child and to provide a high
standard level of care throughout.
To provide warmth and care for our children providing personal care needs, cooking,
cleaning, washing, shopping and budgeting pocket monies or by promoting our children to
carry out such tasks themselves, where appropriate.
To ensure pocket money / petty cash receipts are retained for financial auditing records.
To support the child with onsite or mainstream education attendance completing
homework and other school related activities.
To follow the children’s care plans and risk assessments and carry out job role in
accordance with Halliwell’s childcare policies and procedures at all times.
To understand and adhere to all policies and procedure within Halliwell Homes and the
Homes Standard Operating Procedures.
To complete and comply with all risk assessments in place and update, where required.
To ensure you as a Senior Therapeutic Parent complete the log book throughout your
shift. To ensure that all staff on shift, complete daily c sheets and records in the evening.
To complete children’s file audits on a monthly basis.
To ensure that you and the team meet Health and Safety requirements and they are
updated and maintained to standards as required by Ofsted.
To take in to consideration when planning your shift, activities, health appointments,
meetings, their hygiene routine times to ensure that all children’s needs are met
throughout.
To be committed to being on call and being available during your on call period for anyone
who needs further advice/support.
To ensure that the staff are supervising the children at all times and have the confidence to
address any staffing/practice issues raised whilst on your shift.
To report any safeguarding concerns to Halliwell’s Designated Lead Safeguarding Officer
and follow the correct procedures.
To ensure all accidents (including children, employees and third parties) are recorded
immediately using the correct forms and notification procedures.
To administer medication to children who require it and ensure that you abide by the
medication policies and procedures.

To refer to risk assessments and individual child plans and understand the content of
these including in relation to away from home activities, trips and visits.
To give staff handovers before commencing or leaving a shift engaging in a thorough
handover to ensure staff can take over a shift safely. To also complete a debrief every
evening as part of your reflective practice, establishing if there was any issues/ positives
from the shift.
To complete all your evening checks before retiring to sleeping room.
behaviour of the children and participate in physical interventions only as a last resort,
where required.

**The responsibilities of the Senior Therapeutic Parent are**:
Professional needs of our children
To promote a healthy lifestyle and demonstrate positive and consistent adult role model
behaviours.
To assist assessing the development and approaches to the Restorative Parenting index’s
and measure children’s progress against the RPI.
To understand each individual child with a commitment to a mindful relationship with the
children remainin