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The John Townsend Trust
Working Names within The John Townsend Trust:
The Royal School for Deaf Children Margate
Westgate College
Community Living Services
Monkshill Farm
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The Royal School for Deaf Children Margate
CHILDREN’S HOME
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
APPENDIX 1
School/Children’s Home Structure
The Chief Executive/Principal of the Trust is Wendy Eadsforth.
Contact at:
The Royal School for Deaf Children Margate
Victoria Road
Margate
Kent CT9 1NB
Tel:
01843 227561
Fax:
01843 227637
Email:
enquiries@rsdcm.org.uk
Christine Orpwood is the Matron.
Contact at:
The Royal School for Deaf Children Margate
Victoria Road
Margate
Kent CT9 1NB
Tel:
01843 227561
Fax:
01843 227637
Email:
enquiries@rsdcm.org.uk
The Children’s Service Manager and Responsible Individual is Victoria Wills.
Contact at:
The Royal School for Deaf Children Margate
Victoria Road
Margate
Kent CT9 1NB
Tel:
01843 227561
Fax:
01843 227637
Email:
enquiries@rsdcm.org.uk
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The Registered Manager is Wayne Ross.
Contact at:
The Royal School for Deaf Children Margate
Victoria Road
Margate
Kent CT9 1NB
Tel:
01843 227561
Fax:
01843 227637
Email:
enquiries@rsdcm.org.uk
Management Qualifications and Experience
The relevant qualifications and experience of the CEO/Principal of School/College - Wendy Eadsforth
are as follows:
 Teaching Certificate (Mental Handicap)
 Advanced Certificate in Education (Autism)
 Post Graduate Diploma in Hearing Impairment (Teacher of the Deaf)
 Certificate in Counselling parents of handicapped children (Cambridgeshire)
 NPQH ( National Professional Qualification for Head Teachers)
 British Sign Language Level 2
 Extensive experience of children with disabilities in mainstream and residential education
(maintained and non-maintained)
 Member of the Child Protection & Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding Team
 Safer Recruitment trained
 CEOP Ambassador
The relevant qualifications and experience of the Matron, Christine Orpwood is as follows:
 Qualified Registered Nurse
 Certificate in ECGs
 ASET Level 2 Health & Safety
 Royal College of Nursing
 BSL Level 1 working towards Level 2
 NVQ Assessor D32/33
 NVQ Verifier
 Palliative Care Level 3
 EIPCT (European Pedagogical ICT Licence) Facilitator
 Affiliate in Institute for Learning
 PHC Drugs & Alcohol Testing
 Safer Recruitment
 Manual Handling Key Worker Training
 Paediatric Training for Pre-hospital Professionals
 Extensive nursing experience
 Designated person and Chair of the Child Protection & Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding Team
The relevant qualifications and experience of our Children’s Services and Responsible Individual
Vicky Wills is as follows:
 NVQ4 Leadership and Management
 NVQ4 – Health and Social Care in Children and Young People
 A1 Assessor
 British Sign Language Level 1 and 2
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Deaf/Blind Awareness Level 1
Range of Compliance certificates such as Equality & Diversity, Safe Handling and
Administration of Medicines, Conflict Management and Health & Safety
Member of the Child Protection & Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding Team
Significant experience of residential care
Mental Health Awareness
NAPPi UK Level 2
Paediatric First Aid
Safer Recruitment
Child Exploitation and On-Line Safety
The relevant qualifications and experience of the Registered Manager, Wayne Ross is as follows:
 Diploma Level 5 Leadership and Management Award
 NVQ4 – Health & Social Care
 BSL Level 1
 Valid training in Medication Administration, Infection Control, Basic Food Hygiene and
Equality and Diversity and a range of other compliance certificates, including essential first
aid, fire safety and infection control
 Mental Health Awareness Level 2, Mental Capacity Training Level 1 & 2 and DOLS
 NAPPi UK Level 1 & 2
 Safer Recruitment trained
 Member of the Child Protection Safeguarding team
 Investigation for Providers, NSPCC
 Preventing Bullying Behaviour BSOCC
 OCR Functional Skills in English Level 2
 OCT Functional Skills in Maths Level 2
 OCR Functional Skills ICT Level 2
 E-Safety training
 Child Exploitation and Online Safety
 Paediatric First Aid
THE JOHN TOWNSEND TRUST STAFF
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Behaviour Support Manager, Michael Jenkins is currently working towards a Higher
Apprenticeship for Care Leadership and Management (England). He also holds NVQ 2 and 3 in
Promoting Independence, British Sign Language Level 2, Deaf/Blind Level 3, as well as a range of
compliance certificates, including Mental Health, Equality & Diversity, Infection Control and
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards and PTTLS Level 4. Michael also has Senior Trainers Level 3
status through NAPPi UK (Non Abusive Psychological and Physical Intervention), which is
updated annually. Michael is also a trained trainer in Autism Awareness.
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Senior Practitioner –Diplomas & Best Practice is Ruth Smith. Ruth has over 36 years of
residential care experience. She has a Diploma in Welfare Studies, D32/32 Assessors award,
PTTLS and a range of care qualifications including her internal Verifier qualification.
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Deputy Manager – Michael Lucas. Michael has 25 years’ experience of working with children and
young people with additional needs. He has worked with deaf children and young people,
persistent young offenders and young people with Autism (and associated behaviours) within a
children’s home setting. Michael spent time working in Australia supporting Aboriginal children
in their education. He holds a City & Guilds in Care, Certificate of Welfare Studies, NVQ level 3 in
Care of Children and Young People and is currently working towards Level 5 in Care
Management of Children and Young People.
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Deputy Manager – Lisa Mitchell. Lisa has 20 years’ experience in residential care. Lisa has
worked in Children’s Homes settings for over 8 years and has worked with children with
challenging behaviours, learning disability and young offenders. Lisa holds a City and Guilds
Level 3 NVQ in Health & Social Care in children and young people and Level 2 certificate for the
Children and Young Peoples’ Workforce. Lisa also has a range of compliance certificates such as
Developing Self Esteem, Drug and Alcohol Awareness, Health and Safety, Paediatric First Aid,
Understanding and Management Challenging Behaviour and NAPPi Level 2.
There are currently seven residential team leaders who each supervise the residential teams. These
teams range in size from three to sixteen members in the main. There are twelve Senior RSWs who
deputise for the team leaders in their absence within the residences. Each Team Leader is
supported by at least one senior, larger teams and teams that work in our full year provision will
have additional seniors dependent on the size of the teams. The Senior Support Worker role is being
further developed. Absences and holidays are managed by using our own Sessional/Bank
Workforce and agency staff.
All the Care and Senior Management teams are trained and qualified in Safer Recruitment in
Education and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
Team Leader Qualifications include:
 NVQ Assessors
 NVQ level 3 qualifications
 Level 1 & 2 BSL qualifications
 First Aid qualifications
 Range of Compliance Training i.e. Equality & Diversity, Safeguarding, Infection Control,
Palliative Care, Mental Health & Supervisory Management
 Currently one Team Leader has completed the Level 5 Diploma in Higher
Apprenticeships in Care Leadership and Management and others are working towards.
 NAPPi UK Level 2
All have Medication training, Infection control, Manual handling, Basic Food Hygiene and annual
Safeguarding updates.
Individual team leaders are developing areas of expertise in:
 Behaviour Management
 Mental Health
 Equality and diversity
 Mental capacity
 Best Practice
 Compliance
 Multi-Sensory Impairment
 Dual Support role
Administrative Staff
There is a range of administrative support that includes, an Annual Review Secretary and a fulltime
Funding Officer, Finance and Human Resources support.
Maintenance Staff
There is a corporate maintenance team who carry out a wide range of general, specialist and
refurbishment projects of the Trust’s premises. The maintenance staff are all skilled tradesmen.
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Other Specialist Staff
Our specialist team includes occupational therapists, physiotherapists, educational audiologist,
speech and language therapist and vision advisor. All our specialist staff have nationally recognised
qualifications in their specialist field. The Nurses are all state registered nurses.
Reviewed:
Reviewed:
Passed by:
Next Review due:
(EPIA Jan 2011)
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Wayne Ross – Registered Manager - April 2015/Aug 2015
Wayne Ross - Registered Manager – Vicky Wills – Children’s Service Manager & Responsible Individual – Dec 2014/
April 2015/Aug 2015
Wendy Eadsforth – CEO/Principal October 2010 / September 2011/June 2012/June 2013/Oct 2013/March 2014/
Jan 2015/April 2015/Aug 2015
April 2016