House Parent

“At MACS Young People Are At The Heart Of What We Do. We Encourage An Interdependent Way Of Living. We See The Value In Making Mistakes. We Actively Encourage Personal And Professional Development So That Our Young People And Staff Can Reach Their Fullest Potential”.

Interdependence: MACS recognize that as social creatures, we cannot exist totally independently from others.

Personal Growth and Development: We invest in our staff and young people, challenge their thinking and encourage training to increase skills and knowledge.

Risk Taking and Making Mistakes: Our ethos and belief is that it is OK to make mistakes and by examining what went wrong, we can improve and use the learning.

Self Determination and Autonomy: MACS employ experienced and skilled staff that we trust to make appropriate decisions to work effectively and safely with our young people.

Judging Others: MACS recognizes that judgements are natural, however we ensure that ours are examined and explored in a way that results in a positive outcome for all.

Communication: We have a friendly, relaxed, engaging and warm attitude that fosters positive communication between young people and the organization as a whole.

Trust and Integrity: We earn trust from young people and other professionals by consistently delivering top quality services, underpinned by a core value of trust and integrity.

Involving yourself: MACS welcomes input from all staff and young people and encourages participation in having your say and embracing new opportunities.

How we do things around here..

• No dress code
• You must take a lunch break
• We all eat together when we can
• There is no deference towards managers, we are all equally important in carrying out the work
• We get to know each other
• There are no set times for breaks, as long as you get the work done
• Come up with ideas and we will try to see if they can be implemented
• Make your space your own
• Have a laugh

MACS Children’s Therapeutic Community

HOUSE PARENT

Full Time, Permanent

MACS Therapeutic Community (home) for 3 children aged between 6-14 is situated in a rural setting approx. 15mins car journey from Belfast. The children referred will have complex needs and at times extreme behaviours. These needs cannot be met in mainstream children’s homes or foster care.

In order to work in this team, you need to:

• understand and can work with the risk behaviours presented by Looked After Children,
• be resilient and capable of responding to children in prolonged periods of distress
• be able to organize and complete your own work
• be perceptive both towards your fellow team players and the children and be able to give / receive feedback in a timely, sensitive and constructive way
• be able and willing to work with a range animals

Working Pattern: Live in the home for a minimum of 5 consecutive 24-hour periods followed by the same off i.e. 5 days on and 5 days off. This will include weekends and bank holidays     

Salary: £34,106 per annum & pension at 4% of salary

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION AND PERSON SPECIFICATION FOR ESSENTIAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED BY POST HOLDER

Closing Date: Monday 28th September 2020 at 9:30am

Attractive Terms and Conditions!

At MACS we value staff work life balance. We offer many Flexible Working Options, Family Friendly Work Arrangements, generous leave entitlement, competitive Maternity Leave and Sick Pay Package.

We offer competitive salaries and higher than average pension contributions.

These are just some of the many benefits of working with MACS!

We are Employers for Childcare Family Friendly winners 2015, 2016 and 2017. We have attained Investors in People Health and Wellbeing and Gold Awards and are Irish News Awards Workplace Wellbeing Winners 2017!