Residential Childcare Support Worker

1 day ago

Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom North Lakes Full time
Main Responsibilities

As a Residential Support Worker at North Lakes Children's Services, you will be responsible for providing high-quality care and support to young people in our residential homes. Your duties will include:

  • Supporting daily routines, including getting the young people up, promoting personal hygiene, meals, and activities
  • Supporting room cleans, developing life skills, and promoting socialization
  • Attending medical and other appointments
  • Supporting the plans on the activity planners
  • Completing day sheets for the young people and working with them on their targets
  • Completing handover documents and tasks
  • Completing all daily paperwork
  • Completing budgeting requirements
  • Completing daily room checks and daily housecleaning tasks
  • Completing any food or other shopping needs, including meal preparation and kitchen hygiene/laundry duties
  • Completing any specific checks, such as COSHH, Fire Checks/Car checks
  • Liaising and building relationships with families, working to find out about special dates for the young people and ensuring these are noted/marked, sorting and planning family time contacts
Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:

  • Flexibility in your availability, as the role will involve sleep-in nights and shift work of hours – typically full days on, days off. Rotating start times of 7am, 9am, or 11am
  • An understanding of the issues that face young people in care
  • A Hold Residential Childcare/Families Practitioner Diploma/Children and Young People's Workforce/NVQ Level in Health & Social Care or equivalent – or be willing to work towards a required qualification
  • Excellent communication and listening skills
  • Be willing to learn
  • Be able to work well as part of a small team
  • Be willing to undertake a DBS check at enhanced level if successful for the position. Your DBS check shall be paid for by ourselves
  • Experience with Emotional Behavioural Disorder, Social/Residential Work or Youth Work would be advantageous
  • Have a full, clean UK driving licence and be able to cover at other Residential Homes as and when needed
What We Offer

As a Residential Support Worker at North Lakes Children's Services, you will receive:

  • A sleep-in allowance of £10 per night – potential extra earning of up to £20
  • Up to 4 weeks' holiday per year
  • A rota pattern of days on, days off, with staggered start times ranging from 7am, 9am, or 11am
  • All meals on duty are provided
  • Company pension
  • Access to our Exchange Employee Discount Scheme
  • Access to wellbeing programmes via our Exchange Provision
  • Comprehensive training programme, followed by a comprehensive and ongoing CPD Programme
  • Access to qualifications (Including Diploma/Diploma)
  • Promotion opportunities
  • Monthly clinical and professional supervisions, access to therapeutic support

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