Children's Residential Care Practitioner - Start Date January 6th 2025

1. DDP consultant and child psychologists input from their consultations and reviews

2. Bi-weekly Berri reports to measure emotional stability and progress

3. The care plan reviews and LAC meeting reviews with multi agency input of need, * To actively safeguard and promote the welfare of the children/young people and ensure all care practitioners do the same

• To ensure the ongoing assessment of children and young people’s needs in day to day practice.

• Support with tasks within the home such as quality assurance and regulatory visits.

• Actively promote structure, boundaries and routines within a safe and nurturing environment, being aware of the two hands of parenting.

• Take responsibility for the effective and efficient running of shifts including the planning and facilitation of activities, daily tasks and health and safety checks.

• Ensure effective service delivery in line with the policies and procedures of the Home and the Company.

• To work in accordance with the Children’s Homes Regulations and other statutory guidance

Benefits:

• We provide a 2 week induction to prepare you with the relevant training required to meet the needs of the home

• Further training in line with the DDP model to support understanding and implementation within the home

• Regular supervisions for consistent support from management and leadership team

• Pensions scheme in line with eligibility

• Life Assurance

• Sickness bonus schemes

• Desired QCF Level 3 Residential Childcare or equivalent

• Full UK Driving Licence

• Desired experience in Residential childcare

Dimensions care aim to provide a positive and welcoming environment that will enable children to grow and thrive. We believe Children Looked After deserve the highest standards of care., * Caring and nurturing approach

• Empathetic towards the children’s experiences

• Understanding around their individual needs, history and trauma

• Ability to reflect on their own practice and encourage the children and team around them to be reflective

• Resilience in supporting challenging behaviours developed from trauma

• Commitment, reliability and determination

We are seeking to appoint Care Practitioners who ideally have QCF Level 3 in Residential Childcare or equivalent, with 2 years residential children’s home experience., 1. Be experienced in working with young people with complex trauma

1. Have experience of DDP, PACE and therapeutic working

2. Be able to support young people through dysregulation and crisis periods

3. Be able to support with admissions of young people without transition periods

4. Be quickly able to build relationships with various young people, being adaptable and fun

5. Be effective in reporting and recording, including risk assessments, Care plans and assessment tools including Berri

6. Be able to identify the needs of young people and work within a multi-disciplinary team.

7. Be able to effectively safeguard young people and manage risk taking behaviours well., * GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Experience:

• Residential Childcare: 2 years (preferred)

• Support Environment: 2 years (preferred)

• Casual dress

• Company events

• Company pension

• Discounted or free food

• Free parking

• On-site parking, This role is a permanent, full time post. Working on shifts throughout the month which will include shift patterns of 2 on 4 days off, to ideally work with your own life balance. These days will include sleep in shifts.

If you have leadership qualities, we are looking for people who want to learn and develop in the role and progress their career in working with children.

Dimensions Care values everyone at every level and wants everyone to develop in their roles, with our leadership support.

The home is a Crisis and Assessment home and the young people we will support will come to us for various reasons.

Reasons that young people may need an assessment include

1. They may have had multiple residential home breakdowns for reasons including, relationship breakdowns, high risk behaviours, unsuitable environments or communities, LA decisions.

2. They may be entering the care system for the first time and there is a need to look at what the best type of care is, fostering, small or larger residential homes

3. They may need higher staffing ratios to be able to stabilise their behaviours and help them to regulate

4. There may be foster care breakdowns and a need to assess the best fostering environment

5. They need a therapeutic assessment of their needs

6. They are leaving secure care and need a stepping down provision into residential living

7. The struggle with attending education provisions and need a tutor to assess learning 1:1 in a classroom setting

Being a bespoke home the staff team required for the Haven also need to be slightly bespoke. The care team need to have all the requirements of a typical residential support worker as well as