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Salary£40,000 - £50,000
dependent on experience + outstanding benefits package
Huge Small Victories
Are you:
- A Senior Leader in a school/children’s home looking to move into a multi-site support role.
- A Senior Leader looking to specialise in supporting homes/schools to minimise placement breakdown
- Already supporting several homes/schools, specifically around Restraint Reduction/Placement Stability/Positive Behaviour Support
Implementation…
...then we would love to hear from you.
Our Safeguarding, Behaviour and Inclusion team help Schools and Children’s Homes to plan and work at a senior management level to successfully apply policies, individual interventions and embed best practice, thus improving placement stability, minimising placement breakdowns and contributing to children and young people receiving the best possible outcomes.
Get out what you put in
Our highly regarded, knowledgeable and skilled Lead Practitioners offer strategic support to schools and children’s homes in all aspects of inclusion, enabling them to develop creative and sustainable ways of working that support placement stability and longevity, improving outcomes for children and young people. As Lead Practitioner within our Safeguarding, Behaviour & Inclusion (SB&I) Team you’ll work directly with staff, young people and their families, taking on individual cases to secure good long-term outcomes by focusing on improving placement stability and longevity.
What we do for you
We know you’re going to do great things. For your hard work and commitment, we reward you with the best salary and benefits package in the sector. With us, you’ll get to make a genuine difference to the lives of our young people – plus you’ll get:
- Salary £40,000 - £50,000
- Company car
- Training: A full induction and on the job training
- Holiday: You’ll work hard at WG, so you’ll be rewarded with 35 days holiday including bank holidays
- Flexible benefits: meaning you can increase/ decrease benefits such as life insurance – check out our benefits here
- Wellbeing: a host of wellbeing tools and advice including employee assistance
- Medical cover so you can claim back the cost of things like an opticians or dentist appointment and a host of high-street discounts
- Beautiful working environments with the very best facilities
- A recommend a friend scheme that offers a £2,000 bonus every time
Bring your whole-self to work
Here at Witherslack Group, we celebrate everyone’s differences as that’s what makes us the best at what we do. Our young people come from all walks of life, diverse backgrounds and with different needs – and our workforce reflects that diversity, so that our teams can engage, encourage and inspire our young people to be themselves. You don’t need experience, but there are a few things we’ll be looking for from you:
- Experience at a senior level managing diverse teams
- Experience of identifying and delivering training needs
- Extensive experience of challenging behaviour
- Ability to support others to understand challenging behaviours and collaborate to create proactive strategies
- Qualifications (NVQ, Diploma, Degree – varying levels) relevant to supporting children and young people with various SEN
- Able to travel UK wide and stay away from home as and when required
- Flexibility – this role will require high levels of flexibility where working weeks will vary dependent on priority demand
Interested in joining us?
Our young people deserve the best possible future and we feel the same about our teams. You deserve to have the career you want, with a purpose-led employer, in an environment that allows you to be yourself.
The Witherslack Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of its young people. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check (we will cover the cost) and an online search. We are an equal opportunities employer welcoming applications from all sections of the community.
For a full job description and person specification, please see the attached document.
