Senior Support Worker

**Senior Support Worker - Treetops**
Chertsey, Surrey

**About Us**

White Lodge enables those with disabilities, their families, and their carers to lead fulfilling lives.

Supporting over 2,500 individuals across Surrey, we offer a diverse range of services for all ages and abilities.

Our wonderful site in Chertsey houses three specialist buildings, each with great facilities and services. These include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, a specialist nursery, hydrotherapy, holiday clubs, personal support in the home, short breaks, fitness and rehabilitation. We also offer many activities such as trips out, art, baking, swimming, and much more

We are now looking for a Senior Support Worker to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.

**The Benefits**
- Salary of £28,473.12 per annum
- A culture of progression and development
- 38 days’ annual leave (including Bank Holidays) to support a healthy work/life balance

This is a rewarding opportunity for a dedicated, passionate individual to join our vibrant, organisation and help young people with disabilities enjoy life to the fullest.

Joining our dedicated team, you’ll enable us to achieve our vision of a world which is inclusive to all, regardless of ability, making a difference to countless lives across Surrey.

We boast a comprehensive array of values that ENABLE our teams, stakeholders and services through Equity, Nurturing, Advocacy, Belonging, Language and Empathy.

What’s more, we pride ourselves on our employee experience, many of our staff have exceptional lengths of service. We are committed to inclusivity and over the years we have had many employees working for us who were previously attending our nursery and therapy services.

So, if you’re ready to advance your career and join the team, we’d love to hear from you

**The Role**

As a Senior Support Worker, you will help create a supportive environment, enabling children and young people to have a safe and enjoyable experience where they feel included, heard and cared for.

Specifically, you will plan and oversee a varied programme of leisure activities and outings, working closely with children, young people and families to ensure each experience is safe, enjoyable and tailored to individual needs.

Alongside this, you will manage daily team supervision, support staff development, contribute to care planning and uphold safeguarding and quality standards.

Additionally, you will:

- Lead briefings to plan and review daily sessions
- Maintain accurate records and share child-specific information securely
- Administer medication and ensure high standards of personal care
- Be the key point of contact for children and families as needed
- Contribute to continuous improvement alongside the wider management team

Please note, due to our open and collaborative working environment and the nature of our work with children and adults with disabilities, all our office-based roles can experience periods of elevated noise levels and some elements of disruption.

**About You**

To be considered as a Senior Support Worker, you will need:

- The ability to lead a team, share best practice and support development
- The ability to empathise and respond effectively in challenging situations
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Flexibility to work shifts including sleep-ins as needed
- To be aware of the Children’s Home Regulations 2015
- A good level of IT literacy
- A Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or willingness to work towards it (funding available with Learning Agreement)
- A current first aid certificate or willingness to train

All staff are required to undergo an Enhanced DBS check. Please make it known if you are on the DBS update service.

Other organisations may call this role Children’s Residential Support Worker, Lead Support Worker, Care Team Leader, Children’s Home Senior, or Childcare Supervisor.

Webrecruit and White Lodge Centre are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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

Pay: £28,473.12 per year

Work Location: In person

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