Waking Night

Here at **Amegreen Childrens Services Ltd**, we have a new and exciting opportunity for a **Waking Night Support Worker** to join our expanding dedicated team to help and provide exceptional care across all our homes and make a lasting impact on the lives of children. You will join us on a full-time (38hrs per week - 4 nights per week), permanent basis and in return, you will receive a **competitive salary of £23,500** per annum.

At **Amegreen Childrens Services Ltd**, we are dedicated to providing exceptional residential care for children aged 5 to 18. Since our establishment in 2013, we have been committed to giving them the best possible start in life.

We take immense pride in achieving a good and outstanding rating from Ofsted across all our homes.

**About the Waking Night Support Worker role**:
As a Waking Night support Worker, you will act as a positive role model for the children within Amegreen Children’s Services, offering care and support based on structure, consistency, and nurturing as part of day-to-day living, always ensuring the safety of each child. As part of the Waking night role, you will be expected to complete required admin work as well as cleaning the home ready for the following day. This is a lone working role.

**Key responsibilities as a Waking Night Support Worker**:

- Being intuitive to children’s needs, both physical and emotional
- Being alert to any indication of stress or abuse and reporting accordingly
- Promoting good personal hygiene among all children
- Communicating with other Waking Night staff, day staff and Managers
- Listening to, guiding, and advising children sensitively, offering comfort during challenging times and sharing their joy when appropriate
- Being aware of Child Protection issues, guidelines, and procedures
- Carrying out administrative duties and maintaining accurate records and reports
- Ability to manage personal/professional boundaries
- Personal authority
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability and preparedness to recognise and deal appropriately with conflict, and to receive and give constructive feedback
- Ability to work under pressure and cope with stress
- Ability to work autonomously within the role's boundaries and organisational structure
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Flexibility to work weekends, public holidays, and attend residential holidays with the children during school holidays
- Physical ability to meet the demands of the role
- Keeping the home clean and maintained overnight

**Benefits**:
**Holiday**
- Private use of company caravan (when not in use for our children)
- 28 days holiday (including bank holidays)

**Progression**
- We want to support you with your career; therefore, we’ll give you the support you need to progress and develop your skills.

**Medical and Wellbeing**
- Health Cash Plan - claim back from healthcare and wellbeing appointments such as dentists, opticians, sports massages plus many more.
- Free Flu jabs
- Sick pay (after probationary period)
- Employee Assistance Programme

**Financial**
- **Salary**, we are offering you a competitive base salary of **£23,795.20** for 40 hours per week
- **Bonus** - you will be required to do a minimum of 1 sleep-in per week, £45 per weekday and £50 at the weekend, that’s a **potential bonus of £2,600** but you can **earn more if you wish to do additional sleep-ins**:

- Company pension
- Childcare support scheme
- Car scheme available for Electric vehicle leases
- Cycle to Work scheme

**Discounts**
- All employees are eligible for the Blue Light Card, this offers amazing discounts on, family days out, holidays, cinema trips, retail stores plus more
- Discount on driving lessons from our recommended instructors.
- Discounts with local companies including a Leisure Centre and Chiropractor

**Reward and Recognition**
- Long service award - discretionary bonus after 5, 10 and 15 years of employment with Amegreen
- Employee of the month discretionary reward

**Referrals**
- Recommend a friend and earn up to £500

**Equality and Diversity**:
Amegreen is committed to being an organisation that allows people to be their authentic selves in a safe and inclusive environment.

**Safeguarding and GDPR**:
Adherence to Safeguarding and GDPR requirements and training on these policies and processes is mandatory for all employees. All employees are expected to understand and promote effective Safeguarding and GDPR practices in all aspects of their employment with Amegreen Children’s Services.

**How to apply