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Houseparents and Residential Wardens

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.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 9,022
£ 21,708
£ 34,528

New workers start around £9,022. Normal pay is £21,708 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £34,528.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 37,702 vacancies for this type of job

1.42%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Keeps records and writes reports.

  • Maintains contact and discusses problems/progress with other staff and social workers.

  • Establishes and maintains contact with members of the neighbouring community and/or the residents.

  • Provides one-to-one counselling or group therapy.

  • Ensures that all material needs of residents are provided and endeavours to resolve any problems that they may have.

  • Plans and participates in games and leisure activities to encourage emotional, social, physical and intellectual development.

  • Creates friendly, secure atmosphere and tries to gain the trust and confidence of those in the home or under supervision.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Information Privacy

  • Mental Health

  • Auditing

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Learning Disabilities

  • Working With Children

  • Business Support Systems

  • Risk Analysis

  • Personal Care

  • Social Work

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Management

  • Communications

  • Leadership

  • Customer Service

  • Training And Development

  • Planning

  • Teaching

  • Self-Motivation

  • Problem Solving

  • Resilience

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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