Children Residential Worker

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:
**Job Title** | Childrens Residential Worker

**Portfolio** | Social Services - Integrated Services

**Reports to** | Residential Children’s Home Management Team

**Location** | Residential Children Homes across Flintshire

**Job Reference/ID Number**

**Job Purpose**:
To create a happy and supportive home environment by providing a safe, caring and learning experience for children and young people. As a Residential Children’s Residential Worker you will be required to work on a 24/7 hr rota which includes shift work and sleep-ins.Develop and maintain positive and professional relationships with children, young people (and families) residing at the Residential Children’s Homes that support their social and emotional development.To provide focused, timely, reliable, and responsive support that allows for the child/young person to learn and practice new thoughts, feelings, and actions in the most important areas of their lives, via applied therapeutic knowledge and a genuinely caring relationship that creates a happy and safe environment.To assist in the overall provision of care and control. Each young person will have an personal plan and the role of Children’s Residential worker will be to support the implementation of the plan on a day-to-day basis that also promotes the needs(physical, emotional, social, and intellectual) of the children and young people through a therapeutic, trauma informed approach.

**Principal Accountabilities**:

- To be able to develop trusted professional relationships with children and young people to keep them safe, balancing empowerment and limit setting in a nurturing, supportive and consistent way
- Demonstrate commitment, openness, and willing to engage with the approach to the model of care in order to facilitate the therapeutic needs of children/young people.
- To deliver child-centred care and support ensuring that children and young people receiving care and support that responds to their individual needs. and involves them in matters and decisions that affect them
- To create a homely, warm, kind, friendly, environment ensuring that all your actions are transparent and open for discussion in professional supervision in accordance with the National Code of Professional Practice for Social Care
- To undertake sleep-in duties, work unsociable hours and complete live / waking night duties at various locations as required to meet the individual or group needs of children and young people.
- To contribute to the implementation of individual casework and group work with children and young people and their families that fully involves them and reflects their strengths, needs and desired outcomes as outlined in the individual care plan and placement plan.
- You must understand the plan and your role within it and work constructively with others involved in the plan such as social workers and other professionals.
- To observe, recognise, record, and interpret boundaries and set limits in relation to children and young people being accommodated and respond to challenging behaviour looking behind the behaviour and understanding the cause and reason of the behaviour, in accordance with the unit’s care and control policies/procedures.
- To develop close professional links with other staff of the department and the staff of other agencies and organisations that is underpinned by relationship-based practice to understand and effectively respond to the needs of the child/young people.
- To undertake the role of key worker to individual children/young people, as appropriate and consistently and proactively ensure the therapeutic care of children and young people.
- To participate in staff supervision, performance review, training and development programmes arranged by the department
- To participate in staff and other professional meetings and provide verbal and written reports when required, maintaining records and work at all times in accordance with the home’s statement of purpose and function.
- To handle financial matters within the home in accordance with the authority’s financial regulations.
- To act as a member of the residential care team, supporting colleagues and being prepared to receive support as necessary.
- To act flexibly, within bounds, in order to ensure the necessary cover for the home.
- To inform colleagues of developments, for example, during handover.
- To care for the fabric, equipment and grounds of the home.
- Working as part of a team, sharing responsibility fairly and ensuring compliance with Safeguarding policies and procedures
- To take an active role in the practical activities necessary to maintain the home and to set high standards in “home-making”.
- To report to your line manager, or other appropriate person, any malpractices or evidence which may suggest it.

**This includes being familiar with**:

- The factors that may lead to harm, abuse or exploitation
- The signs of potential harm or abuse
- Local procedur