Apprentice Residential Childcare Worker

About the Role

At Innovative Care, we are dedicated to providing exceptional residential care services for young people, creating a safe, supportive, and nurturing environment where they can thrive. Our mission is to empower each individual with the tools and resources they need to achieve their full potential, both personally and academically.

What You'll Do

• Keeping children safe – supervising and monitoring their wellbeing both in the home and out in the community.
• Building positive relationships – becoming a trusted, consistent adult and positive role model.
• Supporting day-to-day life – helping with routines, hygiene, meals, school and bedtime.
• Promoting independence – teaching life skills and encouraging confidence and resilience.
• Managing behaviours positively – supporting young people through challenging circumstances using a patient and trauma-informed approach.
• Activities and outings – taking young people to activities, education, appointments and family visits.
• Creating a homely environment – cooking, cleaning and helping maintain a safe, comfortable home.
• Safeguarding – recognising and responding appropriately to concerns about a child's welfare.
• Recording and reporting – documenting incidents, behaviours and important information.
• Working shifts – including evenings, weekends, waking nights and/or sleep-ins depending on the home.

Where You'll Work

Somerset (TA1)

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training Provider

ACORN TRAINING LTD

Training Course

Children, young people and families practitioner (level 4)

Course Contents

• Communicates in a way that enables the voice of the child, young person or family members to be heard
• Encourages individuals to engage positively with their community and relevant agencies and actively participate in the way their care and support is delivered
• Actively promotes respect, equality, diversity and inclusion
• Works together with children, young people and families to keep them safe and manage risk and promoting the development of skills the family need to successfully manage risk themselves
• Works with and supports other professionals to respond to safeguarding concerns
• Identifies the influences on the individual and the family and supports them to make informed choices
• Leads on the development and recording of holistic plans, delivery of interventions and evaluates their effectiveness
• Identifies and addresses barriers to accessing resources
• Identifies and manages evidence-based approaches and evaluates their effectiveness
• Contributes to the development of a resilient, consistent and persistent approach to practice
• Models clarity of purpose, clear expectations and a professional approach to decision making
• Appropriately challenges and/or offers alternative perspectives with the children, young person or family
• Contributes to own professional development
• Applies knowledge of legal, economic and social justice systems and implements policy frameworks in support of positive outcomes for children, young people and families
• Demonstrates critical evaluation of practice and insight into own emotions, behaviour and feelings, and uses these insights to challenge own practice
• Takes an active part in continuous professional development
• Sharing and agreeing goals and outcomes when building relationships with partner organisations, other workers, children, young people and families, to ensure appropriate and timely support
• Assumes the role of professional parent
• Contributes to creating and reviewing placement plans based on individual need
• Is able to support traumatised children and young people to live together and make progress
• Develops and promotes the ethos of the home
• Models collaborative team working and the ability to support and appropriately challenge each other
• Engages effectively with child, young person and/or family members
• Supports children, young people or vulnerable adults to identify and take action to deal with safeguarding risk