Residential Children's Home Bank Staff Support

**Salary**: £15 per hour + Wakes (£120)/Sleeps (£63)

**Bank Residential Support Worker - Chippenham / Swindon, Wiltshire**

Due to continued organisational growth and development opportunities for our current staff, we are recruiting for Bank Residential Support Workers to support our Staff Teams In the Chippenham and Swindon area.

**About the job**:
As a Bank Support Worker, you will be key in helping our young people with EBD and learning difficulties. This is a challenging role, but the rewards are incomparable to any other job. You will be working in an environment where the little things that you do every day could have life-changing results on the young people in our care. Your ambition for the people you support will help them take steps to fulfilling their potential.

**What would I be doing?**
- Working with all levels of the Staff Team to safeguard our young people at all time.
- Participating in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational events held within the home and wider community.
- Assisting with practical matters relating to care (cooking, washing, cleaning etc.)
- Creating positive relationships with the young people and offering them unconditional dignity and respect.
- Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural and cultural needs of the young people in our care.
- Continually maintaining accurate and clear record keeping.
- Ensuring that the needs of the young people are being met and reviewing and recording changes to those needs.
- Actively contributing to the development of the team.

**What experience or qualifications would I need?**
- A genuine passion for care and to be motivated by contributing to the progression of others.
- A strong team player
- Resilience to keep going at difficult times and to ask for support if needed
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Computer literacy
- A driving licence

**What would I get in return?**
- A competitive salary of £15 per hour.
- Waking nights paid at £120 per night, sleep-ins paid at £63 per night
- Staff meals whilst on shift
- Fully expensed off-site activities and trips to attend alongside our young people.
- Genuine career development opportunities for those who want them.
- A beautiful home and grounds to work within.

**What benefits would I get from working at Park Blue Homes**:

- Full occupancy bonus.
- Full attendance bonus.
- Free access to 'My Health Assured' app for the use of yourself and close family.

**Due to registration requirements, applicants must be 21 or over.**

**About Park Blue Homes**:
Park Blue Homes are a group of independent Residential Children’s Homes, with four homes in Wiltshire and two in Country Durham.

Park Blue Homes strives to provide exciting places for young people to live. Our teams are really important to us, and we aim to recruit highly skilled and committed people that want to grow in their positions to help our young people.

Park Blue Homes is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Park Blue Homes is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all.

All applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check.

Park Blue Homes is an equal opportunities employer.

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

**Salary**: £15.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Swindon, Wiltshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Are you over the age of 21?

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
- Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- qualification in relation to childcare (preferred)
- Driving Licence (preferred)