Children's Residential Support Worker

** £500 WELCOME BONUS **

**FULL MANUAL UK DRIVING LICENCE ESSENTIAL- Rural location**

Your role as a Residential Support Worker is to encourage our children and young people towards a brighter future. Supporting young people to thrive both within personal relationships and the wider society that they live in.
- To provide primary basic care and a nurturing, therapeutic environment to help the child progress.
- To contribute to the normal development of the children and young people through the provision of a healthy lifestyle to enable them to reach their fullest potential by providing a variety of stimulating activities and a consistent and caring adult model.
- To work with consistent boundaries in order to create safety for the children and young people.
- To be a positive role model for the child and practitioners and encourage both to develop meaningful relationships and attachments.
- To be alert to signs of distress or abuse and to ensure that the children and young people are monitored and protected and have their needs met ensuring that all safeguarding needs are met
- To be aware of the children’s rights and to work in an anti-discriminatory and anti
- oppressive manner.
- To work alongside the children and young people to help develop a true sense of identity and feeling of self-worth.
- To be sensitive to the needs of individual children and young people, taking account of race, culture, language, sexuality and religion.
- To engage, communicate, talk and listen to the children and young people. To observe their behaviour and record significant features.
- To liaise where necessary with other professionals i.e. schools, social workers.
- To support the children and young people to integrate into social activities and where appropriate mainstream school.
- To use reactive strategies to support the behaviour of children and young people who are unable to manage their own behaviour.
- To assist in preparation for reviews and meetings and attend when required.
- To contribute to care planning and the implementation of these plans.
- To work alongside psychologists to enable effective integration of care and therapy.
- To work with children and young people and their prospective carers to ensure the child’s successful integration into a family when placed.
- To be a key carer of a child or young person where designated.

**Company Values**
- Friendly, passionate and caring nature
- Positive, pleasant and approachable
- Empowering others to become stronger and more confident in controlling their lives
- Person Centred, allowing our children to explore & utilise their own strengths
- Innovative, by using or showing new methods and ideas

**Benefits**
- Competitive salary including enhanced qualified rates
- 4-week paid induction programme
- Dedicated learning and development programmes including fully funded Leadership and Management training programme
- Face to face therapeutic/specialist training
- Access to a wide range of free online courses for all staff on a variety of topic
- Free Enhanced DBS check
- Free parking
- Employee Benefit system
- *Refer a friend ‘Scheme’ reward system - earn £1000 per referral

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From £12.59 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free or subsidised travel

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift

Application question(s):

- Do you have your own vehicle?

**Experience**:

- children and young people: 2 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person