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Restore Practitioner
- Do you dare to care?
- Do you have the skills, resilience and commitment to work with children who are on remand or sentenced to time in custody?
- Do you want to support children to develop their life skills as well as their emotional, social and cognitive abilities?
- Are you passionate about transforming the lives of the most vulnerable children?
- Do you want to be part of a revolution in youth justice?
We are offering a hugely exciting opportunity for people with both personal and professional experience of working and engaging with vulnerable children to join our team of Restore Practitioners.
Restore Practitioners are our key frontline residential staff at Oasis Restore, the first Secure Academy Trust in England to educate children in custody. The school is all year-round, offering 24/7 integrated and therapeutically informed education, health and social care, and is due to open its doors to children in spring 2024.
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.
The role and what we are looking for:
Your role as a Restore Practitioner is a commitment to improving the outcomes of vulnerable children through bringing your dedication, energy, warmth, resilience, and skills to their care. Restore Practitioners will work in teams based in 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 benefit from a comprehensive system of training, supervision and reflective practice designed to empower you in your work individually and as a team, allowing you to connect with colleagues about your experience of the work to enable you to give your best and effectively support children and meet their needs. 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.
We are looking for people who understand that a foundation of trusting and caring relationships with clear boundaries is the key to enabling children to learn and develop. You will need to have the enthusiasm, resilience, and commitment to offer this to all of the children at Restore. You will be someone who cares about developing yourself and others, who brings a readiness to get involved, to take up responsibility and authority, and to bring yourself to the work in a whole-hearted, fair, and professional manner.
You will be passionate about making a difference to 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. You will be dedicated to finding a way through, and never giving up.
Our Academy
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. To read more about us please visit our website www.oasisrestore.org.
Our offer to you
As a newly 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 practise, coaching & supervision sessions as well as regular line management.
- Experience an Appraisal policy that decouples pay and performance.
- An elected staff forum to listen to, and act on staff feedback (this will be set up in 2024).
- Access to the Local Government Pensions Scheme (a competitive, defined benefit pension scheme)
- 33 days annual leave including bank holidays, rising to 35 days after two years.
- Subject to meeting basic eligibility criteria, be entitled to up to 8 weeks full-pay and 18 weeks half-pay paid maternity/adoption/shared parental leave (based broadly on the NHS Employers scheme).
- Subject to meeting basic eligibility criteria be entitled to up to 3 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
- Paid time off to attend antenatal appointments (those staff who are either pregnant or whose partner is pregnant)
- Have a structured and bespoke induction training plan plus a training offer bespoke to our context leading to a level 4 qualification in the therapeutic care of adolescents.
- Receive the same offer of sick leave pay (based broadly on the length of service framework in the national ‘Green Book’ framework) from Day 1 of employment.
- Up to 5 days discretionary paid compassionate/emergency/general leave plus further discretionary unpaid leave
- Up to 4 weeks paid parental bereavement leave plus up to 5 days paid bereavement leave for the death of other specified close relatives.
- Blue Light Card (subject to meeting their eligibility criteria)
- Expenses and travel costs incurred as part of the working day (as appropriate, not including travel to work)
- Access to an eye care vouchers scheme, season Ticket Loans, a cycle to work scheme and free car parking.
- We are in the process of setting up a new employee health care cash plan and employee discount scheme.
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
Make sure you visit our website to download and complete our ‘Quick Application Form’ including the voluntary ‘Equal opportunities form*’ and submit both documents to recruitment@oasisrestore.org today.
SEND Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Manager
Other benefits include: 30 days holiday plus bank holidays (and an additional 3 days leave for Christmas org-wide shut down).
Location: London Fields, Hackney E8 (This employer promotes a hybrid, flexible way of working. Staff can work remotely for part of the week if they wish and in the office or face to face for 2 days per week).
About the Employer
For 60 years our client, a national children’s charity has been building a better childhood for all.
As a leading children’s charity, they take the voices of children to the heart of Government, bringing people and organisations together to drive change in society and deliver a better childhood for the UK. They are united for a better childhood.
About the Role
This SEND Stakeholder Engagement and Communications Manager role is vital to the effective delivery of this team’s programmes and projects.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our client’s team to work on a range of projects to ensure stakeholder engagement, events and communication activities in relation to the delivery of SEND programmes are purposeful and effective. You will create and design products, engage and develop relationships with key stakeholders and deliver a range of face-to-face and virtual events, engagement opportunities, as well as regular meetings and Boards.
The role will suit someone with experience of communications or stakeholder engagement particularly in the children’s sector and/or within SEND systems. You will need to have professional experience of using design software, be well organised, an effective communicator, and have excellent people skills as well as experience of working both face-to-face and virtually.
Applications Due: Friday 8am, 15th September 2023
Please note assessment and interviews will be conducted Monday and Tuesday 25th and 26th September 2023.
Interested?
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This charity is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, political opinion, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, paternity, and carer status.
Please quote the job title and reference number in your application. CVs will not be accepted
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Children & Family Hubs Project Officer
We are looking for a passionate project officer to support the development and delivery of projects which form part of a programme to develop Children & Family Hubs. These Hubs will provide a wide range of services to families, from the first days of pregnancy until their children reach the age of 19, or 25 for young people with special needs and disabilities (SEND). They will work in partnership to offer integrated support services to meet families’ social care, early years education, and health needs.
The role will sit within a programme and projects team dedicated to the development of Children & Family Hubs. We are open to a variety of applicants, although ideally you will have experience in public health, consulting, public policy or commissioning, or be a recent graduate from a relevant field. Some experience in project planning, engagement and service delivery will be helpful.
You will be able to interpret, analyse and organise complex information and use this to inform delivery and transformation. This is a key role driving and contributing project work towards the development of Children & Family Hubs and transformation of service delivery, to ensure Hackney families, children and young people aged 0-19 (up to 25 with SEND) can access the support they need, when they need it.
Areas of work or projects the role may work on include:
- Leading on and supporting key workstreams to support the Children & Family Hubs Programme, including commissioning based public health workstreams
- Development of digital tools and virtual offer to enhance the accessibility and awareness of Children & Family Hubs, Start for Life, and support services
- Project planning and reporting
- Preparing agendas for critical meetings. Maintaining an actions register and follow up agendas
- Supporting stakeholder engagement, communications, and management, across various levels of education, health, social care, and community and voluntary organisations.
The post holder may be responsible for undertaking wider project support within the Children & Family Hubs development programme. This position is well supported within a broader team, with excellent training and support provided. We are looking for an applicant who is willing to get stuck in, learn and deliver outstanding service. While PRINCE2, AGILE, or other project management qualifications will be helpful, they are not essential for your application. However, an understanding of how projects are structured, governed and delivered will be advantageous.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact us at education.recruitment@hackney.gov.uk.
Interested?
Please apply via our website: https://education.hackney.gov.uk/jobs/hlt
Closing date: 22:59, Sunday 10th September
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Interviews: Dates to be confirmed (in Sept)
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