Assistant Residential Worker

4 weeks ago

Ayr, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

**Salary**: £11.43 per hour

**Contract/Hours**: Casual role, Various hours

**Location**: Ayr, Ayrshire

**We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Action for Children so here's what you need to know.**

**About Us**

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard, and campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

**About the Role**:
Intensive Supervised Structured Care work with vulnerable and high-risk young people aged 13 to 20 with significant social, emotional, and behavioural needs. Our aim is to provide a safe and nurturing environment which enables our young people to understand their behaviour, make positive choices and thrive. We support them to develop confidence, self-esteem, and life skills, engage in education/training/employment and to feel included in the wider community; we want our young people to feel loved and cared for.

As an Assistant Residential Worker (Casual) you will support the team to deliver high quality, person centred residential care under the GIRFEC framework. You will manage risk in a way which empowers young people and builds resilience, whilst at the same time ensuring their safety. You will demonstrate a high standard of person-centred practice, have good social care values and be a strong role model to the young people.

We are looking for casual workers to be flexible enough to work shifts on a last-minute basis to cover sickness, holidays and ad hoc shift requests but also be willing to have shifts allocated 2/3 weeks in advance.

**You will help our** **Young** **People by**:

- Having a good understanding of the challenges faced by vulnerable, care experienced young people.
- Having a good understanding of the challenges of working within in a residential
- Contributing to care plans and risk assessments.
- Having good communication skills and the ability to engage well with both service users, colleagues, and other professionals
- Being a creative thinker and having a solution focused approach.
- Using your skills, knowledge, and experience to meet the ever-changing needs of the young people.

**What You'll Bring**:
Our job description for the **Assistant Residential Worker** outlines the requirements of the role but the ‘must-haves' are:

- The ability to adapt to challenging situations and make decisions under pressure.
- The ability to evidence a good standard of written and verbal communication.
- Experience of engaging with young people.
- A willingness to learn and develop skills in residential care.
- Good organisational skills and the ability to work to timescales.
- A knowledge of GIRFEC and outcomes-based models of practice and service delivery.
- A full UK driving license is desirable but not essential.

Working here is so much more than a job. Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to understand and have a commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

We can't wait to hear from you - stay safe and happy.

**Application Process**: There are 5 sections for you to complete, Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration. Top Tip... Refer to the job description when writing your Supporting Statement.

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