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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

Training

"Accredited Therapeutic Training Courses"

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Placements: 30.07.22

Location   AgeVacancies
Lioncare School  6-16 yrs1
Springfields   6-12 yrs1
Westfields 10-14 yrs3
Hillfields12-16 yrs2

The Lioncare Group currently has placement vacancies and is happy to consider and accept appropriate referrals for our Homes and School, and offer placements following a thorough matching process. If you wish to contact us regarding referrals we have a dedicated e-mail address for this: referrals@lioncare.co.uk

Alternatively, you can contact us on 01273 720424 if you wish to discuss in more detail a specific referral.

Recruitment: 30.07.22

  • Therapeutic Carer (8-40 hrs/wk. [shifts])
  • Childcare Worker (8-40 hrs/wk. [shifts])
  • Senior Therapeutic Carer (40 hrs/wk. [shifts])
  • Waking Night Therapeutic Carer
    (10-40 hrs/wk. = 1-4 nights)
  • Waking Night Worker
    (10-40 hrs/wk. = 1-4 nights)
  • Administrative Assistant (20-25 hrs/wk.)
  • Therapeutic House Keeper (20-25 hrs. p/wk.)

Recruiting Now for August 2022

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 in our care.

We work therapeutically with children 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 or live interdependently.

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

We have 3 Therapeutic Children’s Homes, a Therapeutic Special (SEMH) Independent School, and Semi-Interdependence Supported Accommodation. Children placed with us generally present as being emotionally unintegrated or fragile integrated, displaying behaviours that challenge, have difficulty in containing and controlling and making sense of their own conflicted feelings, and often experience problems with self-regulation.

We aim to help them begin repairing the damage of their previous 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 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 in to the adults around them, begin the process of repair and restitution, assess and meet the child’s complex needs, and provide our children with the means of finding the missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of their lives.

The Lioncare Group – Proudly Supporting;

Latest News

Westfields Children's Home is Good in All Areas

Following a full and thorough inspection by Ofsted on 28th-29th June 2022, and the publication of the Inspection Report, I am extremely pleased to congratulate the Adults and Children of Westfields Children's Home on achieving the Ofsted Judgement of Good In All Areas.
"One child wrote individually to members of staff to thank them for the care they had received. This showed that staff in the home had made a meaningful impact on the child."
"Feedback from one child’s social worker was positive. They said, ‘I will be forever grateful to them, as will [child]. I would not hesitate in putting another young person with them.’"
"Careful consideration is given to children’s interests and risks."
"Children like living at the home and enjoy the activities on offer. Staff are knowledgeable about children’s plans, their risks and the things they like to do."
"When children display behaviour that is not socially acceptable, staff provide bespoke support."
"Group consultancy meetings and reflective debriefs help to identify triggers to behaviour."

Rainbow Flag Award:
The Lioncare Group, led by The Lioncare School, is proud to have achieved 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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