Senior Support Worker

1 day ago


Ashford, Kent, United Kingdom Meditemp Full time
Job Title: Senior Support Worker

An empathetic and proactive Senior Support Worker is sought to assist in the smooth running of a four-bed therapeutic children's home based in Surrey.

About the Role

This newly opened mixed home boasts a Good rating with Ofsted and is set in large, spacious grounds with plenty of outdoor space for the young people that reside here to enjoy.

Key Responsibilities
  • Take oversight of staff providing high-quality direct work with extremely vulnerable children in this newly opened residential care setting.
  • Manage and motivate staff successfully, ensuring effective supervision of detailed risk assessments and care plans.
  • Engage with children and young people with emotional, behavioural, and psychological difficulties as a result of childhood experiences, poor mental health, domestic abuse, substance misuse, sexual abuse, and learning disability.
  • Work in partnership with professionals from other services and engage with service users' families.
  • Prioritise own workload and use ICT for record keeping and communication, including electronic social care records, email, internet, and Microsoft Word.
Requirements
  • Hold a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent.
  • Attain Therapeutic Care Practitioner status through completion of the organisation's therapeutic care programme.
Benefits
  • 30 days holiday including bank holidays.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Pension scheme.
  • Overtime offered and payable at an enhanced weekend rate.
Personal Attributes
  • Emotionally resilient.
  • Of high personal integrity.
  • Empathic and caring nature.
  • Reflective thinker.

For further information about the position and the organisation, please apply today.


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