Senior Residential Care Worker

**Senior Residential Care Support Worker**
Location: Chorley, Lancashire

**Salary**: £15.50 per hour + sleep in payment £60 (£37,000 per annum)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week + Sleeps

**The Role**
Senior Residential Care Support Worker - Children’s Residential home in Chorley
To meet the needs of children through:

- Ensuring that each carer is aware of each child’s care plan and their responsibilities for its implementation
- Attending childcare reviews and planning meetings to provide information and achieve best outcomes for young people
- Undertaking direct work with young people and acting as an appropriate role model
- Maintaining accurate written records in logs, continuation sheets and files both to record information and enable regular monitoring and evaluation to take place
- Chairing children’s meetings and facilitating consultation with young people generally
- Acting as an appropriate adult at PACE interviews

**To Manage the through Care team**
- Providing supervisory control and direction in relation to carer duties and responsibilities
- Taking responsibility for planning shifts and ensuring their smooth running when on duty
- Providing consultation and informal advice and support to carers in relation to day to day matters
- Offering 1:1 supervision to cares in line with Quality Standards & Regulations
- Contributing to team meetings to facilitate good communication and carer development
- Ensuring carers work within the home’s policies, procedures and Quality Standards & Regulations requirements
- Providing managerial control and direction in relation to carer duties and responsibilities
- Assist with the recruitment and retention of carers including induction training for new carers into the home
- Supervision of new starters during their probationary period
- Develop a management style which balances the need to exercise control and give direction with the need to offer carers the opportunity to make appropriate decisions
- Identifying and progressing individual training and development needs of carers in the context of their personal development plans
- Undertaking annual appraisal of carers
- Addressing issues in relation to conduct and competence of carers
- Undertaking management investigations when required
- Assist the Registered Manager in promoting personal and professional development through the appropriate delegation of duties and responsibilities

**PERSON SPECIFICATION**

**Essential**:

- **Diploma Level 3 Children & Young People Workforce or NVQ equivalent Counselling Skills**:

- **Good knowledge of Quality Standards, Regulation & Industry**:

- **Awareness of Equal Opportunities/ADP issues**:

- **Team Building Skills**:

- **Ability to work within teams effectively**:

- **Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing**:

- **Excellent organisational skills**:

- **Ability to motivate and enthuse Others**:

- **Management/Supervisory qualification / Experience**

**Desirable**:

- **Current driving licence**:

- **NVQ Level 4 or Diploma 5 Children and Young People**:

- **Mentoring Skills**:

- **Therapeutic Parenting Experience**

**About Us**
Reconstruct (Children and Adult Services) Ltd was established in 1990. Born out of a desire to achieve positive change for children, young people, and vulnerable adults impacted by the social care system. Reconstruct provides a range of services to social care sectors across the UK, including Recruitment, Statutory Services, and Consultancy.

**Our Client**
We are delighted to be working with a leading provider of Children’s Residential homes in the North West of England, to identify and appoint a Senior Residential Care & Support Workers for their EBD home in Chorley.

A beautiful, recently refurbished home for up to three children, providing a therapeutic approach to nurturing their young people to lead fulfilled lives.

A company that actively promote the welfare of the team, along with their personal and professional development.

**To Apply**

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

Pay: £37,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Free parking

Application question(s):

- Can you tell me more about your experience working with Children & Young People please?

Work Location: In person