Residential Support Worker

**Arden College** are recruiting for Residential Support Workers We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and passionate people to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will support our young people and be responsible for providing compassionate care during your time with them.

**Our benefits include**:

- **Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme**:

- ** Comprehensive induction**:

- ** Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression**:

- ** Pension scheme**:

- ** Paid for enhanced DBS**:

- ** Wellbeing support**:

- ** Flexible working**:

- ** Cycle to work scheme and more**

Arden College is specialist college providing education to students with autism aged 16 to 25. We also offer specialist residential care to some of our students on a 38 or 52 weeks basis.

With a dedicated team of staff, we aim to provide every young person with an individually tailored programme of education, care, work experience, leisure and life skills and training within the community, enabling them to live as independently as possible and make their own life choices.

In our residential care we aim to create a safe and homely living environment where our young adults have a sense of belonging and a sense of ownership for their home. We are looking for residential support workers who will support our young people to develop the confidence and skills they need for the next stage of their lives.

As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills, and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress to become a qualified Residential Support Worker and further.

Experience isn’t always essential but there are a few characteristics you will need to be successful in this role:
**Resilience** - We support some of the most vulnerable young people in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.

**Communication** - Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Positive working relationships, good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.

**Organisation** - You’ll need to be confident and organised in updating care plans and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.

**Caring** - Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.

**Attentive** - No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

If you want to progress your career in Children’s Services, Aspris will help you get there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.