Residential Support Worker

3 months ago


Derbyshire, United Kingdom RECRUITNEST Full time

**Duties and Responsibilities**:
**Provide care for young people through**:

- Attending to practical matters in relation to childcare (cooking, cleaning etc)
- Establishing positive relationships with young people and always offering them unconditional and positive regard
- Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural, cultural and educational needs of young people
- Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate pro-social ways of dealing with problems
- Helping young people gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behaviour and rewarding acceptable, pro-social conduct.
- Ensuring that each young person’s care plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs

**To act as a key worker through**:

- Taking responsibility for a small number of young people and ensuring that their needs are fully met
- Establishing relationships which young people perceive to be positive, warm and rewarding
- Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties
- Providing emotional support at times of difficulty or stress
- Being ambitious for young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential
- Providing support for young people in their education and extra-curricular activities
- Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager
- Empowering young people and facilitating their active involvement in the decision making about their lives and future
- Encouraging the young person to develop links with the community, attend off-site activities and expand their personal social network
- **To work as part of a team through**:_
- Being aware of the aims and objectives of the home and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them
- Attending team/ staff meetings and making a positive contribution to them
- Actively contributing to the development of the team
- Receiving and storing information to improve communication
- Being willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers
- Being aware of childcare plans for all young people and providing support for colleagues by maintaining consistency in the execution of those plans
- Providing informal practical and emotional support to colleagues experiencing difficulties
- Attending and contributing to regular supervision sessions in line with children homes regulations
- Monitoring the conduct of colleagues and raising any causes for concern appropriately (Whistleblowing)
- Being familiar with all policies and procedures and adhering to them
- **General**:_
- Attending young people’s meetings and contributing to them
- Attending training appropriate to role and maintaining an up to date training profile
- Attending team meetings and group consultations
- Responsibility for the accurate maintenance of financial records appropriate to the duties of the post
- Responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies
- To carry out all other reasonable tasks as directed by the line manager

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

**Salary**: £11.00-£12.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

**Education**:

- Diploma of Higher Education (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Residential Childcare: 1 year (required)
- Support Environment: 1 year (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)
- NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care (required)

Ability to Commute:

- Derbyshire (preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

- Derbyshire: Relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work Location: In person



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