Residential Worker

**Residential Worker**

**Salary**: £23,750 per annum

**Contract/Hours**: Permanent, Full Time, 37hrs per week

**Location**: Glasgow, Lanarkshire

**Benefits**: Annual leave of 29 days public holidays, flexible maternity, adoption and paternity packages, annual staff awards, 7% employer contribution pension scheme, employee discount portal with all your favourite brands, check out more on our careers portal.

**We're thrilled that you're considering a career with Action for Children so here's what you need to know.**

**About Us**

At Action for Children, we believe that every child should have a safe and happy childhood. Last year, we helped more than 600,000 children and families across the UK. We work to ensure their voices are heard, and campaign to bring lasting change to their lives.

**Diversity, equality and inclusion**

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

**About the Role**:
Are you positive, compassionate, and caring? We are looking for Residential Workers to join our team at our Stoneside services (G43 1JF), providing quality residential care and short breaks services for up to 7 young people aged between 11 - 16 years with children with various learning disabilities.

Within our residential service we provide long-term placement for three boys ages 10 to 15. Our Short breaks service offers families a vital service where young people spend fun and quality time within the service out with their family home.

We support Children and Young People who can, at times, present with behaviours that can be physically and emotionally challenging, alongside having a range of complex needs. This means that the people we are looking for, must be emotionally resilient enough to remain calm and compassionate at the times when it's needed most. We never said this job was easy, but it is incredibly rewarding, and you have the chance to make a real difference to someone's life. Our Residential Workers support our Children and Young People through the day with activities, hobbies, daily living tasks, medication and elements of personal care.

We want everyone who works with us to be encouraging and aspirational to help our Children and Young People reach their potential. There is lots of it It is also essential that you bring with you a sense of adventure and a great sense of humour. After all, work should be fun

**As a Residential worker, you'll be**:

- Helping young people in all aspects of their daily lives.
- Having good communication skills and the ability to engage well with both young people, colleagues and other professionals.
- Being a creative thinker and having a solution focused approach.
- Using your skills, knowledge and experience to meet the needs of young people.

**What You'll Bring**:
Our job description for the **Residential Worker** outlines the requirements of the role but the ‘must-haves' are:

- SVQ Level 3 Children and Young People or HNC in Social care or equivalent for Residential Workers or willing to work towards gaining this qualification.
- Experience of working with children/young people with disabilities and/or challenging behaviour.
- Experience of working in residential care setting and undertaking personal care as required.
- Flexibility in working patterns to meet the needs of the service.
- Experience of working in residential care setting and undertaking personal care as required.
- Knowledge and experience of Safeguarding.
- Knowledge of GIRFEC and National.Care.
- Knowledge of The Promise.

Working here is so much more than a job. Whether this is a career change for you or the next step in your journey, we'd love to hear from you.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

We can't wait to hear from you - stay safe and happy.

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