£17,160
Average salary at age 20
£28,600
Average Salary
30
Average hours per week
Description
Houseparents and residential wardens are responsible for the care and supervision of children, young offenders and the elderly within residential homes and nurseries, schools or institutions for young offenders.Main Tasks
- Creates friendly, secure atmosphere and tries to gain the trust and confidence of those in the home or under supervision;
- Plans and participates in games and leisure activities to encourage emotional, social, physical and intellectual development;
- Ensures that all material needs of residents are provided and endeavours to resolve any problems that they may have;
- Provides one-to-one counselling or group therapy;
- Establishes and maintains contact with members of the neighbouring community and/or the residents’ family and friends;
- Maintains contact and discusses problems/progress with other staff and social workers;
- Keeps records and writes reports.
Qualifications
There are no formal academic entry requirements. In most cases workers will be required to register with the appropriate statutory body which involves satisfying the registration criteria. This would normally include holding or working towards the appropriate qualification for the job. Entrants must typically be 18 years old and have experience of working in a care environment. Both off- and on-the-job training is available. A wide range of qualifications including NVQs/SVQs covering various aspects of care are available. Background checks including a CRB check are likely to be required.What Houseparents and residential wardens studied in higher education
| Occupation | Percentage Value |
|---|---|
| (L4) Social policy | 2 |
| (L7) Human & social geography | 1 |
| (W2) Design studies | 2 |
| (L3) Sociology | 4 |
| (Q9) Others in linguistics, classics & related subjects | 1 |
| (C8) Psychology | 16 |
| (W1) Fine art | 1 |
| (V3) History by topic | 1 |
| (W3) Music | 1 |
| (F6) Geology | 1 |
| (X0) Broadly-based programmes within education | 1 |
| (F8) Physical geographical sciences | 1 |
| (R9) Others in European languages, literature & related subjects | 2 |
| (W6) Cinematics & photography | 1 |
| (C7) Molecular biology, biophysics & biochemistry | 1 |
| (Q3) English studies | 7 |
| (K2) Building | 1 |
| (B7) Nursing | 2 |
| (N5) Marketing | 1 |
| (W4) Drama | 2 |
| (M2) Law by topic | 1 |
| (N8) Hospitality, leisure, sport, tourism & transport | 1 |
| (B9) Others in subjects allied to medicine | 1 |
| (F4) Forensic & archaeological sciences | 1 |
| (F3) Physics | 3 |
| (L1) Economics | 2 |
| (T7) American studies | 1 |
| (X3) Academic studies in education | 14 |
| (L5) Social work | 13 |
| (X1) Training teachers | 2 |
| (C6) Sport & exercise science | 3 |
| (V1) History by period | 4 |
| (H6) Electronic & electrical engineering | 1 |
| (L6) Anthropology | 1 |
| (I1) Computer science | 1 |
UK Prospects
47000
Workforce Size
5.40%
Predicted growth 2024 - 2027
6225
Predicted Replacement 2024 - 2027
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