Job Title: Residential Childcare Practitioner
Location: Standlake, Oxford
Salary: £28,469 – £34,861 basic (dependent upon experience) plus sleeping-in allowance (an average of an additional £5,000 per year)
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
About the Role:
We’re looking for a Residential Childcare Practitioner to join our ever-growing team here at The Mulberry Bush. In this role, you will play an important part in helping children build healthy relationships, discover the benefits of education, and start to rebuild their lives. Join us in this challenging yet incredibly rewarding role and we’ll look to you to:
- Plan and provide child-centred cultural, physical, play and recreational activities;
- Think creatively about – and contribute to – effective care planning;
- Provide appropriate therapeutic relationships with the children;
- Develop your understanding of therapeutic childcare practice;
- Monitor the care and treatment of your assigned children within the household;
- Sleep-in once a week as well as on a rota at weekends.
As part of the role, you’ll have the opportunity to complete a fully accredited and funded Foundation Degree (FdA) in Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People, run by The Mulberry Bush and validated by the University of the West of England.
About You:
You’ll be working alongside children who are facing extreme challenges in their lives. So you’ll need to be caring, patient and resilient. You also need to have:
- A good standard of general education;
- Training or a qualification demonstrating a reasonable ability to write and think clearly;
- A current, full UK driving licence;
- The right to live and work in the UK.
Benefits:
As well as a genuine sense of pride that comes from being part of an outstanding therapeutic community for children, there are a whole host of other benefits on offer at The Mulberry Bush School. Including:
- A salary above sector average;
- Sleeping-in allowances which, on average, will pay around £5,000 per year in addition to the advertised salary;
- Paid overtime if required;
- 50 days’ holiday each year;
- Enhanced parental pay;
- A comprehensive range of informal and formal wellbeing support and benefits;
- Subsidised meals;
- Employer contributory pension;
- Fully accredited and funded Foundation Degree (FdA) in Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People.
About the Mulberry Bush:
The Mulberry Bush is a therapeutic community, registered as a children’s home and a non-maintained residential special school. We are dedicated to transforming the lives of those affected by childhood trauma. Since 1948, we’ve been helping children and those around them through specialist therapeutic services. Over the years we have established an outstanding reputation for transforming the lives of all those affected by childhood trauma. We believe we offer something special – and we’d love you to be part of it.
The Mulberry Bush is an equal opportunities employer and is fully committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children as its utmost priority and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having the right to live and work in the UK and will be required to undertake an enhanced criminal background check from the Disclosure & Barring Service.
Closing date for applications: 27th October 2023
Visit day: 2nd November 2023
Interview day: 8th November 2023
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
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