Are you passionate about transforming the lives of the most vulnerable children? Do you want to be a founding staff member of our new secure school, the first of its kind? Can you see yourself taking responsibility for ensuring the safe functioning of the school, and the care and development of our children and the staff who work with them? Could you bring energy, authority and compassion to the care of the children at the school? We are offering a uniquely exciting opportunity for a person with experience of children's residential care, social work or youth justice who is ready for a post in the team responsible for managing the care of the children and staff teams within Oasis Restore, the first secure school in England. Your role as a Deputy House Manager offers a unique opportunity to be part of a comprehensive team at Oasis Restore, joining us as we continue to recruit a large team of residential staff and onboard a new cohort of students, taking up a crucial role in their care and development. It will be your role to inspire and develop staff practice, manage their activities, utilise our management information systems and provide safety, care and well-being for children while developing a sense of safety and boundaries in their work. You will be an important figure for children across the school and particularly in one of the three houses, representing a kind, decent and caring source of authority, present and involved in their daily lives. You will be someone who can work well in complex, demanding and emotive situations. You will have excellent relational skills and will be naturally curious and keen to learn about your own and others' feelings and experiences. You will be a champion of high standard of Children's social care, with demonstrable experience of developing practice that delivers to Children's Homes Quality Standards. You will be someone who can think well under pressure and who can empower and contain others in their work. You will have a powerful belief in the value of restorative work and will be able to hold your hope and compassion for the children in the face of the challenges they will bring. This role reports into the Residential Leadership team, and works closely with the wider Senior Leadership Team, alongside a team of specialists within education, care, and health. Alongside colleagues, you will manage a large team of Senior and Restore Practitioners. As a deputy house manager you will have overall responsibility for case management of the children within your flat. This will include quality assurance all documents relating to the child (including adherence to legislative, regulatory and policy requirements) and all child facing practice from the Core Team around the child. Your role will involve a significant responsibility for ensuring high quality standards of care for children and the healthy functioning of the whole school (including the home), chairing handovers, coordinating and ensuring the allocation of staff, managing the rota, holding reportees to account, providing support, presence and decision-making across the day and night, and working with staff to embed and sustain our restorative culture and achieving the very best standards as outlined in Children's Homes Regulations and Guidance. You will be a champion of therapeutic practice, placing relationships at the heart of everything you do and be responsible for ensuring excellent standards of care throughout the school. You will be someone who cares about developing others, working on organisational, team, group, family and individual levels to foster real understanding, good relationships and communication, within our culture of benign enquiry. You will have a mature, reflective approach that aligns with the Restore Framework, our model of practice, aware of the conscious and unconscious impact of this very challenging work and the value of discovering its meaning. You will be committed to finding a way through, and never giving up.
Mar 27, 2026
Full time
Are you passionate about transforming the lives of the most vulnerable children? Do you want to be a founding staff member of our new secure school, the first of its kind? Can you see yourself taking responsibility for ensuring the safe functioning of the school, and the care and development of our children and the staff who work with them? Could you bring energy, authority and compassion to the care of the children at the school? We are offering a uniquely exciting opportunity for a person with experience of children's residential care, social work or youth justice who is ready for a post in the team responsible for managing the care of the children and staff teams within Oasis Restore, the first secure school in England. Your role as a Deputy House Manager offers a unique opportunity to be part of a comprehensive team at Oasis Restore, joining us as we continue to recruit a large team of residential staff and onboard a new cohort of students, taking up a crucial role in their care and development. It will be your role to inspire and develop staff practice, manage their activities, utilise our management information systems and provide safety, care and well-being for children while developing a sense of safety and boundaries in their work. You will be an important figure for children across the school and particularly in one of the three houses, representing a kind, decent and caring source of authority, present and involved in their daily lives. You will be someone who can work well in complex, demanding and emotive situations. You will have excellent relational skills and will be naturally curious and keen to learn about your own and others' feelings and experiences. You will be a champion of high standard of Children's social care, with demonstrable experience of developing practice that delivers to Children's Homes Quality Standards. You will be someone who can think well under pressure and who can empower and contain others in their work. You will have a powerful belief in the value of restorative work and will be able to hold your hope and compassion for the children in the face of the challenges they will bring. This role reports into the Residential Leadership team, and works closely with the wider Senior Leadership Team, alongside a team of specialists within education, care, and health. Alongside colleagues, you will manage a large team of Senior and Restore Practitioners. As a deputy house manager you will have overall responsibility for case management of the children within your flat. This will include quality assurance all documents relating to the child (including adherence to legislative, regulatory and policy requirements) and all child facing practice from the Core Team around the child. Your role will involve a significant responsibility for ensuring high quality standards of care for children and the healthy functioning of the whole school (including the home), chairing handovers, coordinating and ensuring the allocation of staff, managing the rota, holding reportees to account, providing support, presence and decision-making across the day and night, and working with staff to embed and sustain our restorative culture and achieving the very best standards as outlined in Children's Homes Regulations and Guidance. You will be a champion of therapeutic practice, placing relationships at the heart of everything you do and be responsible for ensuring excellent standards of care throughout the school. You will be someone who cares about developing others, working on organisational, team, group, family and individual levels to foster real understanding, good relationships and communication, within our culture of benign enquiry. You will have a mature, reflective approach that aligns with the Restore Framework, our model of practice, aware of the conscious and unconscious impact of this very challenging work and the value of discovering its meaning. You will be committed to finding a way through, and never giving up.
Learning Support Assistant (LSA) Starting Date : As soon as possible. Closing Date: Friday 1st May 2026. Interview dates: 11th & 12th May 2026 Salary: SCP 5 to 7 (£23,560 to £24,427) Location : Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent. Your role as a LSA will be integral to supporting the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to help them to achieve their individual educational outcomes. We are looking to LSAs who are willing to work towards the HLTA qualification. You will be responsible for supporting with the delivery of a bespoke, skills-based curriculum; and working with individual children and small groups within the classroom to facilitate a personalised and aspirational education for all. You will work as part of an education team within departments and contribute to the regular assessment of the children you are working with as well as forming part of a core team around the child and feeding into formulation meetings to report on progress and next steps.
Mar 27, 2026
Full time
Learning Support Assistant (LSA) Starting Date : As soon as possible. Closing Date: Friday 1st May 2026. Interview dates: 11th & 12th May 2026 Salary: SCP 5 to 7 (£23,560 to £24,427) Location : Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent. Your role as a LSA will be integral to supporting the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to help them to achieve their individual educational outcomes. We are looking to LSAs who are willing to work towards the HLTA qualification. You will be responsible for supporting with the delivery of a bespoke, skills-based curriculum; and working with individual children and small groups within the classroom to facilitate a personalised and aspirational education for all. You will work as part of an education team within departments and contribute to the regular assessment of the children you are working with as well as forming part of a core team around the child and feeding into formulation meetings to report on progress and next steps.
Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) Start Date: As soon as possible Closing Date: Friday 1st May 2026 Interview dates: 11th & 12th May 2026 Salary: SCP 18 to 22 (£29,860 to £32,147) Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent . Are you a qualified or aspiring Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) driven by a purpose to transform the lives of the most vulnerable children? Do you have a keen interest in developing your knowledge, skills and practice to support with learning across the school? Do you see relationships as fundamental to your work with children, families, and the wider community? Do you want to be a part of an innovative and courageous team developing the UK's first secure school? We are offering an exciting opportunity for qualified or aspiring HLTAs to join the team in contributing to and supporting teachers and Head of Departments with delivering an outstanding curriculum and high-quality learning opportunities at the UK's first secure school. Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. You will be key to delivering a curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives. The role and what we are looking for: Your role as a HLTA will be integral to supporting the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to help them to achieve their individual educational outcomes. You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of a bespoke, skills-based curriculum; and working with individual children and small groups within the classroom to facilitate a personalised and aspirational education for all. You will work as part of an education team within departments and contribute to the regular assessment of the children you are working with as well as forming part of a core team around the child and feeding into formulation meetings to report on progress and next steps. You will be responsible for working with teachers to deliver lessons that develop curious and dedicated learners and meet their individual needs and interests. You will have the opportunity to feed into and continuously contribute to a creative curriculum underpinned by progressive pedagogies, in line with the national curriculum, setting a true gold standard for learning. You will be an integral part of a passionate, committed, and ground-breaking multidisciplinary team, working integratively towards improving the outcomes for children so often overlooked. Together, we will devise strategies to empower children to take ownership of their own learning journeys, so preparing them for successful transitions into the next phase of their journey. As a champion of restorative practice, you will place relational connection at the heart of everything you do. Your work will be the driving force that enables children to transition out of Oasis Restore with the support in place for them to succeed in the next step of their journeys.
Mar 27, 2026
Full time
Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) Start Date: As soon as possible Closing Date: Friday 1st May 2026 Interview dates: 11th & 12th May 2026 Salary: SCP 18 to 22 (£29,860 to £32,147) Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent . Are you a qualified or aspiring Higher Level Teaching Assistant (HLTA) driven by a purpose to transform the lives of the most vulnerable children? Do you have a keen interest in developing your knowledge, skills and practice to support with learning across the school? Do you see relationships as fundamental to your work with children, families, and the wider community? Do you want to be a part of an innovative and courageous team developing the UK's first secure school? We are offering an exciting opportunity for qualified or aspiring HLTAs to join the team in contributing to and supporting teachers and Head of Departments with delivering an outstanding curriculum and high-quality learning opportunities at the UK's first secure school. Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. You will be key to delivering a curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives. The role and what we are looking for: Your role as a HLTA will be integral to supporting the progress of all children at Oasis Restore, to help them to achieve their individual educational outcomes. You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of a bespoke, skills-based curriculum; and working with individual children and small groups within the classroom to facilitate a personalised and aspirational education for all. You will work as part of an education team within departments and contribute to the regular assessment of the children you are working with as well as forming part of a core team around the child and feeding into formulation meetings to report on progress and next steps. You will be responsible for working with teachers to deliver lessons that develop curious and dedicated learners and meet their individual needs and interests. You will have the opportunity to feed into and continuously contribute to a creative curriculum underpinned by progressive pedagogies, in line with the national curriculum, setting a true gold standard for learning. You will be an integral part of a passionate, committed, and ground-breaking multidisciplinary team, working integratively towards improving the outcomes for children so often overlooked. Together, we will devise strategies to empower children to take ownership of their own learning journeys, so preparing them for successful transitions into the next phase of their journey. As a champion of restorative practice, you will place relational connection at the heart of everything you do. Your work will be the driving force that enables children to transition out of Oasis Restore with the support in place for them to succeed in the next step of their journeys.
Music Teacher Starting Date: As soon as possible Closing Date: Friday 1st May 2026 Interview dates: 13th & 14th May 2026 Salary: MPS 1 to 6 (£32,916 to £45,352) + Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) (or prorated if part time) Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent. Do you believe in the right of all children to play, create, and experience music? Do you believe in the power of music to transform children's lives? Do you want to be a part of a new way of teaching and a courageous team developing the UK's first secure school? We are offering an exciting opportunity for a practicing musician or music leader/teacher to join the team in contributing to and delivering an outstanding curriculum at the UK's first secure school. We recognise the power of music to transform young lives, build confidence, raise aspirations, and support the development of personal skills. We anticipate that music will be an integral route to connecting with our children as well as to upskilling them for life beyond the justice system in the music industry and/or beyond. Whether you are a qualified music teacher, a passionate performer, or a music tutor, we are looking for people who want to make a difference to the lives of children in custody. If you are a skilled and passionate musician and would like to invest in children, we would love to hear from you. Whilst the role is advertised as full time, we know that what is most important for our children is having the opportunity to work with people who are keen to invest in them and who are practicing, skilled musicians - and that they may not be available for a full-time role. We are keen to consider flexible working requests including part time working. When considering any such requests we would review this against our operating requirements. If you would be interested in exploring whether we could potentially accommodate your desired flexible working pattern or not, please state this in the additional sheet within the application form providing as much detail as possible or get in touch. Our full-time working patterns are Monday to Friday at 35 hours per week. Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. As a founding teacher, you will play a key role in designing and delivering a music curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives.
Mar 27, 2026
Full time
Music Teacher Starting Date: As soon as possible Closing Date: Friday 1st May 2026 Interview dates: 13th & 14th May 2026 Salary: MPS 1 to 6 (£32,916 to £45,352) + Teacher Pension Scheme (TPS) (or prorated if part time) Location: Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent. Do you believe in the right of all children to play, create, and experience music? Do you believe in the power of music to transform children's lives? Do you want to be a part of a new way of teaching and a courageous team developing the UK's first secure school? We are offering an exciting opportunity for a practicing musician or music leader/teacher to join the team in contributing to and delivering an outstanding curriculum at the UK's first secure school. We recognise the power of music to transform young lives, build confidence, raise aspirations, and support the development of personal skills. We anticipate that music will be an integral route to connecting with our children as well as to upskilling them for life beyond the justice system in the music industry and/or beyond. Whether you are a qualified music teacher, a passionate performer, or a music tutor, we are looking for people who want to make a difference to the lives of children in custody. If you are a skilled and passionate musician and would like to invest in children, we would love to hear from you. Whilst the role is advertised as full time, we know that what is most important for our children is having the opportunity to work with people who are keen to invest in them and who are practicing, skilled musicians - and that they may not be available for a full-time role. We are keen to consider flexible working requests including part time working. When considering any such requests we would review this against our operating requirements. If you would be interested in exploring whether we could potentially accommodate your desired flexible working pattern or not, please state this in the additional sheet within the application form providing as much detail as possible or get in touch. Our full-time working patterns are Monday to Friday at 35 hours per week. Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a truly restorative environment, that creates the potential for them to thrive in the future. As a founding teacher, you will play a key role in designing and delivering a music curriculum that provides nurturing, therapeutic and educational community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children in our care. Come and develop your career within an organisation dedicated to transforming lives.
