Support Worker – Hove – Children EBD Full Time

Working with Children with Social, emotional and mental health needs

Therapeutic Carer
Location: Brighton/Hove
Salary starting from £20,051- £22,091 per annum +

Working in our Therapeutic Homes and supporting children attending our Therapeutic SEMH Independent School, your role is to meet the everyday but complex needs and manage the sometimes challenging behaviours of the children in our care, support them in understanding and managing their conflicted emotions and behaviours, and offer them real and meaningful experiences of living, relating, and learning.

Essential Criteria Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of working in a Residential Children’s Home.
• Knowledge of an SEMH school or similar learning environment.
• Understanding the real difficulties faced and felt every-day by the children in our care.
• Experience of encouraging children to develop their full potential.
• Experience of delivering quality care, learning, and nurture to vulnerable children.
• A reasonable standard of education and general knowledge.
• Knowledge of theory and practice in providing quality care and education for looked after children.
• Knowledge of strategies that promote purposeful experiential learning and real progress for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties, and experience of implementing them.
• Good written and oral communication skills, and able to record accurately, objectively, and with clarity.
• I.C.T. skills including Word, Excel, Email/Internet, competency in the use of electronic digital devises and equipment for recording and processing information, and able to operate basic I.C.T. appliances including telephone system, scanners, and photocopiers
• Understanding the importance of confidentiality, privacy, and discretion.
• Experience of the stressful and emotionally and physically challenging nature of the task and role. § Understanding of the importance of practising equality and diversity and confronting discrimination.
• Understanding of requirements of OFSTED for children’s residential care settings. Skills and Abilities
• Ability to meet the needs of children with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties, trauma, and complex needs.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Ability to guide and support others in the development of the therapeutic task.

• Ability to be assertive yet supportive, exercise sanctioned authority, have good interpersonal skills, and able to function as part of a wider team and organisation.
• Ability to take on board instruction, to use own initiative when appropriate, and accept personal authority and responsibility.
• Ability to effectively prioritise self and workload within agreed timescales.
• Good organisational skills.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Ability to assess the need of individual children, to create plans for meeting these needs, and to maintain appropriate records of progress and achievement, and to guide others in doing the same.
• Ability to relate to and communicate with difficult to reach children, and colleagues experiencing difficulties in the work-place.
• Ability to relate to and communicate effectively with colleagues and other professionals and encourage their collaborative participation in the work of the organisation.

Personal Qualities

• Honesty
• Openness
• Integrity
• Capacity to be reflective and be a reflective practitioner
• Organised
• Confidence
• Mentally and physically fit for the purposes of the work you are to perform
• Robust and resilient
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations and demands including working flexible hours when necessary
• Capable of both thinking and doing
• Belief in the value of difficult to reach children
• Commitment to training and self-development

Please apply with your updated CV. Please note that we do not offering visa sponsorship.

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