Job vacancies for residential workers and teaching assistants to work with autistic teens in Calderdale

If you’re a residential worker, senior residential worker or teaching assistant and you’re looking for a job that will inspire, challenge and reward, working with an enthusiastic, supportive and committed team, then this could be the chance you’ve been waiting for.

Stafford Hall, near Spring Hall, and Amisfield House, Hipperholme, are dedicated to caring for, supporting and empowering young people, offering a real home environment and a unique place to learn through Stafford Hall School.

An open event will take place on Sunday June 29, at Amisfield House between 11am and 2pm, for prospective staff to look round and discover what makes it so special.

Background

Although they have been operating for about a decade, the homes and school, part of the Young Foundations organisation, are not much known outside their sphere. While relatively unknown to the local community, this does not mean that there aren’t two establishments constantly progressing and striving for the best outcomes for the young people they serve.

Adam Medlock, headteacher at Stafford Hall School, which provides education at both sites for residential and day pupils aged 10-19, and Registered Manager for the homes Carolann Hudson, have worked tirelessly to ensure the two parts of the organisation collaborate and put the needs, interests and individual development of each young person front and centre.

They’ve built a new senior management team, and changed not just the physical appearance of the homes, but the direction, energy and the atmosphere in both the homes and the learning spaces.

“We both love this place and I am proud to call myself the headteacher,” said Adam. “We need people who will fly the flag for us.”

Whilst the backgrounds, and often needs and behaviours of the young people can be complex and challenging, they both see this as an opportunity for collaboration and learning, to discover what’s behind this and to make a happy, secure, safe and fun place to live and learn, so each child can thrive.

Carolann oversees the tight family unit that forms the 10-bed Stafford Hall and six-bed Amisfield.

“The homes are very much a familial home for a group of young people who really need that second chance in life, through no fault of their own,” she says. She joined the team seven years ago and says she knew from the start it was the place for her. “It sounds clichéd, but it’s just so rewarding when you finish your day and you know that a child has had the best day of their life.”

Join the open day, call for a chat or apply online. Find out more here