Therapeutic Care Worker - Opening of a new Genesis CTE home

The Hartmore Genesis website represents three independent companies that work in conjunction, though not exclusively with one another. Hartmore Ltd, our educational providers, Genesis CTE Ltd, our English based residential homes and St Davids ASC (Marlowe) Limited, our Welsh based residential homes.

Location:

Burrow (Gloucestershire/Worcestershire border).

Hours:

39 hours (shift pattern over 3 weeks, some weekends and evenings included).

Please note:

Sponsorship/Visa assistance is not available for this position.

About Us

At Hartmore Genesis, we provide a therapeutic, stable, and nurturing environment for young people aged 13 to 21 who have experienced significant trauma, emotional and behavioural difficulties, or challenging life circumstances. Our homes, located in picturesque Gloucestershire and Worcestershire border settings, offer a structured and secure environment underpinned by clinical and educational expertise. In addition we also operate a specialist SEN school, ensuring each young person receives the education and emotional support they need to thrive.

Role Overview:

To help maintain and develop a nurturing, therapeutic and fun environment for 5 girls aged 8 to 13, who have had traumatic early years experiences. Creating a home where they can feel safe, loved, and begin to make positive memories.

Main Duties:

Assist the children in completing their morning routine – breakfasting, cleaning teeth and readying for school.

While the children are in school, complete paperwork tasks – emails to Social Workers, report writing, recording of Key Work sessions, activity planning etc, as well as domestic tasks such as shopping and cooking. The Registered Manager will also use this time to seek input from staff for the Reg 44 and Reg 45 reports.

After school, take children to clubs and activities, play in the garden, help with homework, or resolve any issues from the day and then sit down for an evening meal.

Nocturnal routines involve settling the house down for bed, showering, winding down and bedtime stories. Weekends can be filled with staff‑planned activities such as ice skating, walking, shopping or attending club and sports matches.

Planning of activities for the children is important. Finding clubs and societies for them to join, such as trampoline club, riding lessons or sports clubs helps build self‑esteem. Also, arranging and participating in things in the house – music lessons, arts and crafts, board games etc.

Other tasks involve monitoring health and wellbeing of our children and taking appropriate action and reporting when you have concerns. All staff must complete safeguarding training as part of their induction and are expected to follow the home's Safeguarding Policy, reporting concerns promptly in line with the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) procedures. Staff are expected to understand and comply with Working Together to Safeguard Children (2023) and Keeping Children Safe in Education where relevant.

We are Ofsted registered and so all staff must ensure they are working within all regulatory and statutory guidelines set out in acts such as the Children Act 1989, the Children Act 2004, and the Care Standards Act 2000, along with their associated regulations, such as the Children's Homes (England) Regulations 2015. This will be under the direction of the Registered Manager and Deputy Manager.

This also means working within the framework described in the home’s Statement of Purpose.

All staff have a duty to follow Health and Safety policies and regulations in all areas of the home – from driving company cars, to infection control, to safe medication dispensing.

Barely any others – so any other tasks or duties deemed appropriate as directed by the Registered Manager in line with the needs of the children and the service.

How do we complete these duties?

There’s no denying that the job is demanding with a range of tasks to complete, so how do we manage to keep all the plates spinning?

Working therapeutically means putting the child at the centre of everything we do, seeing the world through their eyes, through the lens of their experience and then making decisions…