Restore Practitioner in Maidstone

Do you want to be part of a revolution in Youth Justice? Are you passionate about working with children who are on remand or sentenced? Do you have a gift for balancing kindness with structure? If you said yes to any of the above, then we have an opportunity for you like no other!

Following a period of internal building works coupled with a comprehensive learning review with all our staff over our therapeutic processes and what we have learnt so far on this revolutionary journey; we are offering a hugely exciting opportunity for people with relevant personal and professional experience to come and join our growing team of Restore Practitioners. This will be an amazing opportunity for those with the correct skillset to come and work with our new cohort of students.

As a Restore Practitioner, you will join our key frontline residential department as well as being part of the wider Oasis Restore team dedicated to nurturing children from challenging backgrounds. You will be guiding them toward positive futures in the UK’s first Secure Academy Trust to educate children in custody. The school is all year-round, offering 24/7 integrated and therapeutically informed education, health and social care, which means you will be working shift patterns.

Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a restorative environment that creates the potential for them to thrive both now and for the future. Restore Practitioners will build and model healthy and trusting relationships with children that enable them to feel safe, learn and reach their full potential.

Oasis Restore is the country’s first secure school that is a proof-of-concept policy initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Oasis Restore’s mission is to transform the life chances of children aged 12-18 years in the criminal justice system through delivering psychologically informed, integrated practice that centres on trusted, safe relationships between staff and children. Oasis Restore is a learning community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children beyond the secure school.

This isn’t just any role—it’s an ever-evolving, hands-on position where you’ll create a safe, home-like environment in a custodial setting. You’ll be responsible for fostering self-esteem, teaching life skills, setting boundaries, and introducing children to new interests and experiences. A therapeutic approach is essential, as you’ll help our youth navigate their journeys with compassion, structure, and resilience.

As our student numbers increase Restore Practitioners will work across each of the 12 residential flats at Oasis Restore, taking primary responsibility for the children living in this flat and working within an inter-disciplinary team around each child. You will work within a team which includes experienced social care managers and therapists as well as working with teaching staff to support the children’s engagement in education and wider school activities. You will play an active role in the school’s enrichment programme, delivering sessions which promote the development of the whole child.

In addition to delivering and supporting enrichment programs, you’ll ensure our safeguarding standards are rigorously upheld and keep our systems updated. Your attention to these protocols will play a crucial role in keeping our children safe and supported.

At Oasis Restore we provide extensive training, but we also welcome your unique perspective and flair. You will be passionate about making a difference to the children’s lives, empathetic in your approach to them and to your colleagues, patient, hopeful, forgiving, and able to behave with a curious mindset in your approach. You will have integrity, respect for others and their different life experiences and backgrounds and will understand and be able to maintain professional relationships and boundaries and have an unwavering commitment to child safeguarding. Your experience, combined with our guidance, will empower you to make a genuine impact.

If you’re ready for a challenging yet deeply fulfilling role, we’d love to hear from you. Join us as a Restore Practitioner and be part of something truly transformative.

As a relatively new established subsidiary of the Oasis Charitable Trust, you will enjoy the benefit of being part of a national organisation that aims to support all staff to reach their full potential and a once in a lifetime opportunity to create, develop and grow a new collaborative and innovative values-based organisation.

As well as this you will also benefit from the following opportunities:

• A mixture of one to one and group reflective practice, coaching & regular line management/supervision sessions
• Experience an Appraisal policy that decouples pay and performance.
• An elected staff forum to listen to, and act on staff feedback.
• We have recently recognised Unison to collectively bargain on behalf of all our non-teaching and non-leadership staff
• Access to the Local Government Pensions Scheme (a competitive, defined benefit pension scheme)
• Access to a funded cash plan health scheme
• Access to an EAP service
• 33 days annual leave including