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SACCS aims to improve the lives of children and young people who have suffered trauma in the early part of their life. It does this by ensuring that the people working with these vulnerable children have the very best training, qualifications, support and advice.

By ensuring that the right people are employed to help these children and young people to recover, we make sure that we give every possible opportunity to support individual development and growth within SACCS.

Training and Development

All SACCS staff, especially the Therapeutic parenting teams undergo an intensive programme of training and development to ensure that they have the self-awareness, skills and theoretically underpinned knowledge required to offer safety and containment, behavioural development and internalised change to each child. The level of training is intensive as each staff member must be able to understand internal trauma and its manifest behaviour in order to practically apply the working methods outlined in each child’s IRP. Understanding the real nature of distress is the first step to being able to deliver recovery.

Each staff member is provided with three levels of training that takes up to two years to complete to support the three levels of recovery. The first is training required to achieve statutory compliance and is expected to be completed within the first 12 weeks of employment. The second is NVQ level 3 and 4 equivalent by the end of year one enabling staff to understand aspects of behaviour, to work with the IRP and monitor, observe and report on behavioural change. Finally, a Level 5 Foundation Degree is achieved at the end of year two. Level 5 graduates are able to understand, practically apply and articulate the intricacies of trauma as the child recovers from a poor internalised model to one that is much more positive and healthy.

 

 

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Residential Care Worker

You will be responsible to the Home Manager, as a member of the Staff Team for the day-to-day care of the children and young people, helping them to recover from their traumatic early life experiences.