Restore Practitioner - Full-time

Woodlands; Rochester; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading secure school in Rochester is seeking a Restore Practitioner to guide children from challenging backgrounds toward positive futures. The role involves building trusting relationships and working within a revolutionary therapeutic environment. Candidates should be passionate about youth justice and have the relevant experience. The role offers a competitive salary and requires a commitment to shift work.

Benefits

Local Government Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Passionate about working with children on remand or sentenced.
• Ability to balance kindness with structure.
• Relevant personal and professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Guide children from challenging backgrounds toward positive futures.
• Build and model healthy relationships with children.
• Work shift patterns in a therapeutic environment.

Job description

• Start Date: TBC
• Closing Date:5pm on Monday, 12th January 2026
• Salary:£38,939 to £42, 729 – inclusive of an unsocial hour’s allowance payment worth up to £6,792 per annum, plus Local Government Pension Scheme.
• Location:Oasis Restore Secure School in Rochester, Medway, Kent.
• Interviews: -Week commencing 26th January 2026

• Do you want to be part of a revolution in Youth Justice?
• Are you passionate about working with children who are on remand or sentenced?
• Do you have a gift for balancing kindness with structure?

If you said yes to any of the above, then we have an opportunity for you like no other!

Following a period of internal building works coupled with a comprehensive learning review with all our staff over our therapeutic processes and what we have learnt so far on this revolutionary journey; we are offering a hugely exciting opportunity for people with relevant personal and professional experience to come and join our growing team of Restore Practitioners. This will be an amazing opportunity for those with the correct skillset to come and work with our new cohort of students.

As aRestore Practitioner, you will join our key frontline residential department aswell as being part of the wider Oasis Restore team dedicated to nurturing children from challenging backgrounds. You will be guiding them toward positive futures in the UK’s first Secure Academy Trust to educate children in custody.

The school is all year-round, offering 24/7 integrated and therapeutically informed education, health and social care, which means you will be working shift patterns.

Oasis Restore represents a revolution in youth justice: an opportunity for children within the criminal justice system to experience a restorative environment that creates the potential for them to thrive both now and for the future. Restore Practitioners will build and model healthy and trusting relationships with children that enable them to feel safe, learn and reach their full potential.

Our Academy

Oasis Restore is the country’s first secure school that is a proof-of-concept policy initiative funded by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). Oasis Restore’s mission is to transform the life chances of children aged 12-18 years in the criminal justice system through delivering psychologically informed, integrated practice that centres on trusted, safe relationships between staff and children. Oasis Restore is a learning community that embeds hope, stability, and opportunity for children beyond the secure school. To read more about us please visit our website www.oasisrestore.org.

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