Residential Childcare Worker

3 months ago


Cullompton, United Kingdom Talent Fox Recruitment Full time

**Providing care for young people whilst continually demonstrating our values by**:

- Creating and maintaining an environment that is homely, warm, welcoming and positive through cleaning, tidying, organising and cooking etc.
- Establishing positive relationships and always offering unconditional and positive regards
- Constantly meeting the physical, emotional, behavioral, cultural and educational needs of our young people
- Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate pro-social ways to deal with problems
- Helping our young people to gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behavior and rewarding acceptable pro-social conduct
- Ensuring that each young person’s care plan is followed and innovated as appropriate to reflect their changing needs
- Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties to achieve their best outcomes
- Being friendly and positively ambitious for our young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential
- Supporting our young people in their education and pursuit of 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 our young people and facilitating their active involvement decisions where appropriate around their lives and future
- Encouraging our young people to develop links with the community, attend off-site activities and expand their personal social networks

**Contribute to your team whilst demonstrating our values by**:

- Being aware of the aims and objectives of the service and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them
- Attending team/staff meetings and making a positive and innovative contribution to them at all times
- Actively contributing to the development of the team
- Receiving and storing information to improve communication channels
- Be willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers
- Having awareness of childcare plans for all young people and providing support for colleagues by maintaining consistency in their execution
- Providing informal practical and emotional support to colleagues
- Attending and contributing to regular supervision sessions in line with National Minimum Standards
- Monitoring the conduct of colleagues and referring on any causes for concern (Whistleblowing)
- Maintaining familiarity with all policies and procedures and adhering to them
- Receiving and engaging will all training appropriate to role and maintaining an up to date training profile
- Holding responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies
- Performing all other reasonable tasks as directed by the line manager

Reference ID: RCW

**Salary**: £11.00-£11.50 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 39 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- NVQ Level 2 Childcare (preferred)
- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: RCW



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