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Therapeutic Residential Care

Therapeutic Residential Care

"Providing children and young people with opportunities to experience different ways of relating, living and learning."

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Therapeutic Education

Therapeutic Education

"The processes of living and learning are inextricably linked."

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Consultancy, Coaching & Group Facilitation

Consultancy, Coaching & Group Facilitation

"Empowering organisation to find their own solutions"

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Training

"Accredited Therapeutic Training Courses"

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Placements: 25.11.20

Location   AgeVacancies
Lioncare School  6-15 yrs2
Springfields   6-12 yrs0
Westfields 10-14 yrs2
Hillfields12-16 yrs2
18+
Portland Road+18 years0
West House+18 years0
Hill House+18 years0
New Church Rd+18 years0

The Lioncare Group knows there are children in need of our residential care and special education provision during the current Covid-19 Panedemic situation. We continue to accept and consider appropriate referrals for our Homes and School, and offer placements following a thorough impact assessment process. If you wish to contact us regarding referrals we have a dedicated e-mail address for this: referrals@lioncare.co.uk

Recruitment: 24.11.20

  • Senior Therapeutic Carer (40 hrs/wk. [shifts])
  • Admin Assistant (25 hrs/wk.)
  • Learning Support Assistant
    (40 hrs. p/wk)
  • Therapeutic Carer
    (40 hrs/wk. [shifts])
  • Child Care Worker
    (40 hrs/wk. [shifts])
  • Cover Waking Night Workers
    (to cover absences at short notice)

Recruiting Now for December 2020

The Lioncare Group is providing an Essential Service to children in need of residential care and special education provision. This means our Homes and School have remained open and operational throughout the current Covid-19 Panedemic situation, and we are continuing to recruit and employ to fill vacant posts.
If you interested in working with us, please download, complete, and return to recruitment@lioncare.co.uk the application form, which you can download (Note: you cannot complete this form online and must save your work before submitting it) as a PDF Form by clicking on the link below:

The Lioncare Group Application Form

Recruitment and Selection Guidance and Information 2020-21

Please Note: in line with our Safer Recruitment Policy, there are no circumstances where a CV is an appropriate method of application for employment with The Lioncare Group, and only a fully completed Application Form will be accepted.

References will always be followed up and any offer of employment is always subject to pre-employment
checks being undertaken; these include confirmation of a satisfactory Enhanced DBS and a thorough check for any prohibitions, sanctions and restrictions that might prevent the candidate from taking part in certain activities or working in specific positions.

Welcome to the Lioncare Group

The Lioncare Group has one aim: To improve the lives and prospects of the children and young people in our care.

We work therapeutically with children and young people who have complex needs, have experienced abusive, neglectful, and / or chaotic and traumatic situations, and who need specialised professional support in learning how to cope with the pressures and demands of day-to-day living before they can be expected to survive and thrive in a family-based placement.

Our primary task is to enable them to be more integrated individuals, thrive in a family setting or succeed in living independently, and become valued and valuable members of their community in later life.

We have 3 Therapeutic Children’s Homes, a Therapeutic Special (SEBD) Independent School, and Semi-Independent Supported Accommodation Training Houses and Flats. Children and young people placed with us generally present as being emotionally unintegrated or fragile integrated, displaying levels of disturbed and disturbing behaviour, and difficulty in containing and controlling their own conflicted feelings.

We aim to help them begin repairing the damage of previously abusive and traumatic experiences. We assist them in finding ways to incorporate a positive experience of ‘good enough care’ and parenting in their present worlds. Our therapeutic practice approach assists children and young people achieve equilibrium, enjoy their childhood, and manage the change needed to move forward in their lives.

By providing carefully thought through intensive individualised programmes of therapeutic care, informed by ongoing assessment of need, within the residential group milieu, we begin to form vital and appropriate relationships and attachments, attempt to survive the unbearable and overwhelming feelings and anxieties projected by the children and young people in to the adults around them, begin the process of repair and restitution, assess and meet the child or young person’s complex needs, and provide our children and young people with the means of finding the missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of their lives.

The Lioncare Group – Proudly Supporting;

Latest News

"Business As Usualish":
The Lioncare Group provides an Essential Service to the Children in our care; this is their Home their School. Because of this fundamental truth, we have been, and we will continue to remain, open and operating throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic situation.
We have of course needed to make changes to the way we do things in response to the official guidance and advice we are receiving from Government, our Regulators, the DfE, Placing Authorities and other professionals.
We have implemented our Business Continuity Plan and we are regulary reviewing our Specific Covid-19 Contingency plan to maintain "Business as Usualish" whilst ensuring we safeguard and protect the health, welfare, and wellbeing of the children in our care and of our employees.
As the Chief Executive Officer of The Lioncare Group, Responsible Individual for our three Children's Homes, and Chair of our Independent SEMH School, I wish to publicly acknowledge and thank all my colleagues across The Lioncare Group for the amazing effort and loyalty and commitment they continue making in these difficult times, as individuals and as a community, to ensure our children receive the highest possible standards of care and support, and reassurance, at home and at school. I feel immensely proud and humbled by what I am seeing and hearing taking place, and I know that our children are in safe hands.

Rainbow Flag Award:
The Lioncare Group, led by The Lioncare School, is proud to announce it is working towards achieving The Rainbow Flag Award.

The Rainbow Flag Award is a national quality assurance framework for all schools and colleges, focusing on LGBT+, (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, plus other related identities), inclusion and visibility. The Rainbow Flag Award encourages a whole organisation approach to LGBT+ inclusion, as well as developing strategies to combat LGBTphobic bullying.

You can find out more about The Rainbow Flag Award and associated projects by following these links:

https://www.theproudtrust.org/

http://www.allsortsyouth.org.uk/

http://thekitetrust.org.uk/

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