Children's Support Worker

**Who are Fair Ways and what do we stand for?**

Fair Ways is a great place to work. We are a team. We care about each other and are all committed to making a change to the lives of the young people and service users in our care. We will not apologise for calling our staff great, the best, or world-class. Our staff are at the core of our organisation and we celebrate them by shouting it from the rooftops

**Where and when do we need you?**

As a multi-site support worker you would have the opportunity to support at Portchester Road. Our Portchester Road residential children’s home accommodates children aged 14 - 18 and specialises in providing therapeutic informed practices for our young people, supporting them towards independence. Multi-site relief staff will be supported by a wonderful team of permanent support workers and the homes senior management team to ensure the delivery of continuous high-quality service and care. Staff will be involved in a range of activities which our children enjoy, this may include swimming, music, camping, rock climbing, horse riding, canoeing and other exciting activities

This is just one of the fantastic locations where you would have the opportunity to provide support to our young people when they need it most. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in working across a range of the following services:

- **Residential Children’s Homes** - Contributing towards the maintenance of a positive, safe and homely environment within our residential service, including the promotion of a warm and accepting atmosphere, where the safety and care of young people is paramount.
- **Residential Family Centre** - Observing, assessing, and monitoring the health, development and emotional well-being of parents and children, by promoting high standards of physical care, hygiene and safety for residents.
- **Fostering Support** - Providing daytime and evening respite to Foster Carers by taking the child/young person into the community for 1:1 support sessions.
- **Youth mental health - Rehabilitation and Recovery services** - Analysing and therapeutically managing behaviour that challenges resulting from complex needs and formulate plans to reduce the likelihood of future similar events.
- **Supported Living** - Encouraging the development of independent life skills for post-16’s within a therapeutic caring environment. Interacting with young people and managing complex behaviour.
- **Community Outreach -** Providing flexible support in the family home and/or community to young people with disabilities, complex health and behavioural needs.
- **Family Contact -** Providing a safe and supervised environment allowing families to work towards re
- establishing relationships following possible breakdown or separation.
- **Education SEMH/ASD -** Supporting the needs of our 3 specialist schools providing support to students both onsite in lessons and offsite in exciting activities.

**Our team of multi-site support workers is managed by our Bank Engagement Lead who is passionate about creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for our zero hours workers ensuring that they feel valued and supported in the vital roles they play as part of our dedicated and dynamic workforce.**

**At Fair Ways you are valued as a person, and not treated as a number. We encourage creative thinking, reflective input and support ongoing professional growth.**

**Desirable. but not Essential**
- Whilst we value the knowledge and understanding that experience and qualifications can bring, we also know that some of our best people have come to us from unrelated backgrounds. These people already held our core values at heart, and with the dedication of our amazing in-house training and development team, we have supported the rest_
- Previous experience of working with young people and/or adults with health/social care/educational needs
- A Level 3 qualification in childcare, social care, or another related discipline

**Let us look after you**

Looking after our employees is important to us, and whilst our culture is central to our identity, we also offer a great set of benefits to ensure we are striving to provide the best support to our employees available in the sector.
- Employee Assistance Scheme _(Application based emergency financial assistance for employees)_
- Wellbeing Initiatives - _Team Building Days, Summer Festival, Wellbeing boxes_
- Health Assured and Employee Assistance Programme _(24/7 counselling service)_
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card giving a range of high street discounts
- Attendance at a range of exciting company events
- £1000 Refer a Friend Scheme
- £250 Refer a Foster Carer Scheme
- In-depth company training and access to discounted industry recognised qualifications

**Find your happy place - we can’t wait to meet you