Children's Residential Care Worker

4 weeks ago


Port Talbot, United Kingdom VAL's Community Full time

**About Us**

VAL's Community are an inclusive, supportive and rewarding organisation who provide care and education for children and young people with Learning Disabilities and associated health and social conditions.

We are the only trauma recovery-based Learning Disability provider in the UK for children and young people.

Our **SAFETY **values underpin both what we believe and how we behave, creating a pathway for children and young people to excel:

- **S**AFEGUARDING - at the heart of everything we do
- **A**CCEPTANCE - we have a zero-tolerance approach to discrimination
- **F**OCUS - our values and ethos compliment the highly regulated industry we work in
- **E**MOTIONAL RESILIENCE - we work together to build emotional resilience
- **T**EAMWORK - our values and ethos support good teamwork
- **Y**OUNG PEOPLE - we build on skills that will nurture our young people to achieve good outcomes

We are seeking passionate and committed individuals, who embody our ethos and values and want to join our specialists residential children's home.

You will be a dedicated person, who thrives in making a difference in the lives of others and want to challenge yourself to develop your skills and knowledge in the children's home sector.

**The purpose of an Residential Care Worker**
- To lead by example and maintain good professional practices in accordance with legislation and guidance.
- To be accountable for the safety and wellbeing of our young people, whilst on shift with them.
- To help create a supportive and positive environment for each young person with particular reference to his or her safety, health and education.
- To act as a professional parent with professional boundaries.

**Key elements of the role**

1. Ensure safeguarding of all young people underpins every decision made.

2. To contribute to the young person’s care plans and risk assessments, their review and implementation.

3. To contribute to the educational and social development of each young person.

4. To form effective relationships with young people, their families (if appropriate) and external agencies

5. To meet the emotional and physical needs of our young people and maximize opportunities for their development

6. To ensure that young people’s views and wishes are sought and acted upon where appropriate.

7. To ensure that good quality records are maintained as required with supervision and advice from shift leaders and Managers.

8. To create a caring and positive environment for each young person with particular regard to their safety, health and education.

9. To undertake a ‘key worker’ role with young people as required.

10. To undertake cooking and domestic duties as would a ‘good parent’.

11. To dispense, record and administer medication as required.

12. To inform colleagues of relevant developments and communications i.e. during handover.

13. To maintain and promote residential care work to high levels of professionalism expected by VAL's Community.

14. To ensure high quality supervision of young people, ensuring their individual safety and well-being is closely monitored.

15. To support the Manager in the preparation, implementation, review and updating of Placement Plans and risk assessments and monitoring progression.

16. To identify problems and service deficiencies by the continuous review of young people’s needs and make recommendations for improvement.

**The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may be modified from time to time in accordance with the development of the service and the employee.**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Part-time hours: 0-60 per week

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £11.44-£12.44 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 12 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Flexitime
- Referral programme

Application question(s):

- Are you over 21 years old?
- Are you over the age of 21?
- Are you able to travel to and from the place of work without disruption to your working or contracted hours?
- All of our staff will be trained in physical intervention. As a last resort, we have to use physical blocks and restraints. Please confirm that you are willing to undertake this aspect of the role.

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Residential Childcare: 1 year (required)
- Learning Disabilities: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care Children and Young People (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: ERCW Pines



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