Residential Childcare Support Worker

1 day ago

Carnforth, Lancashire, United Kingdom Bay View Full time
Job Title: Residential Childcare Support Worker

Job Type: Casual

Location: Capernwray, Carnforth

Salary: £ per hour

We are seeking a dynamic and inspirational Residential Childcare Support Worker to join our established Residential Team at Bay View on a casual basis, covering shifts within the business as and when needed. You will be working in one of our family feel children's homes in Carnforth or rural North Lancaster, with a maximum of four young people per home. This opportunity will also allow you flexibility to work the hours you can commit to with no contractual obligation.

Key Responsibilities:
  • To carry out duties as a Childcare Worker and Key Worker, ensuring the National Standards laid down by Ofsted are consistently exceeded.
  • To provide the highest possible standard of childcare to the children residing in the Home.
  • To purposefully and systematically improve the lives of all young people residing at the Home.
  • To build and maintain positive and effective working relationships with family, friends, and external bodies, as requested by the Registered Manager.
  • To contribute to the building and maintenance of a culture of trust and mutual respect between all involved in the Home, both children and members of staff.
The Provision of Childcare:
  • The Childcare Worker contributes to the development of appropriate and high-quality care plans for each young person.
  • All legal requirements, Ofsted standards, and Bay View Childcare policies and procedures are adhered to at all times.
  • Feedback received from residents, family, friends, placing authorities, and other relevant parties is noted and communicated to the Registered Manager and Deputy Manager by the pre-agreed method.
  • The Home is kept clean, tidy, safe, and secure at all times.
  • The Childcare Worker builds constructive and trusting relationships with the children in the Home, ensuring a full understanding of their personal background and individual needs.
  • The Childcare Worker is approachable, friendly, and professional, proactively engaging with the children and creating an open, positive, and inclusive environment so that the children feel they belong in the Home.
  • The Childcare Worker works proactively and constructively with the children, endeavouring to build relationships with them, add to their quality of life, and build foundations for future personal success.
  • The children are actively supervised and kept safe, and the Childcare Worker looks out for signs of unease, frustration, and unhappiness and engages with the children as necessary.
  • The Childcare Worker is quick to sense, manage, and de-escalate any conflict situation that may arise. Any action taken in this respect is in line with the policies and procedures of Bay View Childcare.
  • All issues and concerns relating to the children are proactively communicated to the Registered Manager, Deputy Manager, and Shift Leader.
  • Risk assessments are carried out for all new activities, as requested.
  • Pre-activity assessments are carried out for existing activities to ensure they can operate safely and effectively.
  • The Childcare Worker is actively involved in activities with the children, doing things with them, very much as a good parent would.
  • The Childcare Worker discharges all responsibilities as a 'Key Worker' and ensures all children are treated as individuals.
  • The Childcare Worker maintains regular and constructive communication with the family and friends of the children for whom he or she is the 'Key Worker'.
  • The Childcare Worker remains unerringly positive in terms of participation in activities with the children and the relaying of personal life experiences.
  • An active and constructive contribution is made to reviews of any child for whom the Childcare Worker is the 'Key Worker'.
  • All company policies and procedures are followed, and all necessary paperwork is diligently and fully completed. The Childcare Worker has a full understanding of the reasons for all records that have to be kept and is quick to ask whenever this is not the case.
  • The quality of food provided to the children is in line with the pre-agreed food standards.
  • The Childcare Worker actively assists with cooking and the purchasing of foodstuffs, as required.

Bay View is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You must be willing to undertake a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position.

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