Children's Home Team Supervisor

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Children's Home Team Supervisor to join our Ferne Lodge team at Hampshire County Council.

Are you looking for a challenging and diverse role working as part of a friendly and supportive team, with an opportunity to make a real difference?

The Role:

You will be part of the Leadership Team, supporting the Registered Manager and Deputy Manager to ensure the effective day-to-day running of our home as we work to establish a great team around each child to support the best possible outcomes for them. You will offer a supportive role to the Children's Home Support Workers.

We are looking for caring, creative and passionate person with the ability to build warm, positive and strong relationships which will form solid foundations for positive outcomes for our children.

You will have an appropriate Level 3 qualification backed up by excellent communication skills and experience in leadership. You will demonstrate a flexible approach to problem solving and an ability to analyse problems. You will be acting in the interests of the children, undertake and ensure personal care tasks and participate in activities (group or individual).

You will work a shift pattern, whereby you will work shifts which include weekends and sleep in duties, flexible working requests can be considered. Additional enhancements are paid for evenings, weekends and sleep ins (terms and conditions apply).

What you'll do:

The key function of the role is to work directly with children and young people aged 10-18. Requiring a child centred approach and ability to build warm, positive and strong relationships with our children. You will be a positive role model supporting children's goals and development.

We believe passionately in ensuring our Residential Care Workers have the skills and knowledge to be able to authoritatively parent our children within our service. Through working within our Model of Care - Pillars of Parenting, we focus on each child's individual strengths to support them to develop and achieve positive outcomes.

Hampshire use a Pillars of Parenting Model of Professional Child Care which is an applied psychological model of professional childcare drawing on attachment and trauma theory, CBT and positive psychology. Monthly consultations are carried out with an Applied Psychologist (Educational or Clinical) and a plan based on psychological evidence-based practice is agreed and implemented for specific young people.

There will be an opportunity to carry out specific key work sessions with individual young people that draw on therapeutic approaches agreed during monthly consultations. You will be given training in pillars of parenting and psychological theories underpinning their practice. This training is carried out by two consultant psychologists who specialise in this area, and you will gain subject relevant qualification.

What we're looking for:

• Ability to form warm and encouraging relationships with children to support their development and positive experiences.
• Physically ability to participate in all aspects of Team Teach.
• Ability to demonstrate emotional literacy in relationship to self and others.
• Actively supporting and encouraging children to progress towards their full potential.
• An understanding of the needs of the children in residential care and have experience working with them to achieve independence.
• Knowledge of how to safeguard and support children in residential care who have experienced trauma, harm or abuse.
• A team player with strong collaborative skills.
• Sound IT skills and able to accurately record information.
• CF Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care or equivalent. If you don't hold this qualification, you will be required to undertake the course within a specified regulatory timescale (If you don't hold the level 3 in Residential Child Care, we will offer you a place on our diploma programme and our dedicated management team will support you in achieving your professional development goals.)