Senior Residential Social Care Worker

**Package Description**:
**Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same: To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.**

Whether that’s helping people to live independently, or creating spaces to learn, work and play, you’ll be making sure adults with disabilities or complex health needs have a chance to thrive, right in the heart of their local communities.

We have a rewarding opportunity for a **Senior Children’s Residential Support Worker** to join our residential service in **Romiley, Stockport.**

**Starting salary - £27,590.00 per annum** **with biennial increments**

**Additional enhancements** - £96.00 for sleep-in shifts and a 25% uplift on hourly rate for weekend shifts.

**The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of Children, Young People, and Adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.**

You will be working in a caring home environment with the wider team under the leadership of the Registered Manager, nurturing, and supporting the young people providing them with all the care and support they would receive as if it was their family home, allowing their parents and siblings a much-needed break.

The purpose of a **Senior Children’s Residential Support Worker **is to.
- Support less experienced staff via positive and effective team working, to achieve high quality standards of care that are set and agreed by the Registered Manager on behalf of the Trust.
- Participate to establish an enabling culture, which individually and in groups, actively promotes the young people’s life chances to achieve optimal outcomes in line with the Quality care standards.
- Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of systems and policies which ensure compliance with legislative regulations and that high standards are achieved thus maximising quality of care, protection and appropriate control.
- Supervise and/or undertake keyworking responsibilities, including primary responsibility for the more complex cases, especially where safeguarding issues are involved.
- Develop, demonstrate, promote and maintain a good level of awareness of safeguarding issues, assessing and recording risk.
- You will work flexibly to undertake the full range of duties in a well-planned way that respects and values the Children and Young People as individuals.

**What can you bring to the team.?**
- An essential for this role is a QCF Level 4 in children, young people and families practitioner or equivalent.
- Significant childcare experience.
- Experience of working with statutory and voluntary agencies.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary approach to meeting clinical, physical and emotional needs.
- An ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining & encouraging open and honest communication.
- A good standard of written English and IT skills would be essential, you will be writing reports and keep record of the Children and Young Peoples progress.
- Transporting children / young people to an activity or school is a requirement. A driving licence that has been held for 12 months would be desirable.

**Benefits include**:

- ** Annual Leave** 27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
- ** Generous pension scheme** **and death in service benefit**, an initial contribution of 4% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service
- ** Occupational sick pay** and family friendly policies including **enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.**:

- ** Reward and Discount platform** offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
- Proud to be a **real living wage employer**:

- ** Refer a friend scheme**, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
- Comprehensive **training and development opportunities**, including apprenticeship qualifications
- ** Long service awards** including cash gifts and extra holiday.
- Promotion of **Wellbeing **across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online.
- Access to our **Employee Assistance Programme** for you and adults at your home

To discover the full details of this rewarding role within the Together Trust take a look at our Job Description.

This service is regulated by Ofsted therefore all employees must be over the age of **22** years at the time of joining the service.

**We are a Real Living Wage employer.**

Together Trust has committed to paying all staff a significantly higher salaries than the government minimum wage. By officially registering as a Living Wage employer, w