Waking Night

**About the Borough**

In Sutton, there is much for us to be proud of both as a council and as a borough. This includes high levels of resident satisfaction, the quality of our services, our success in addressing our financial challenges to date, the way that we involve and engage with residents on key issues facing the borough, and the enthusiastic and motivated staff that we employ.

Looking ahead, there are plans for the delivery of new homes and new schools and the London Cancer Hub is being developed, while the Council is also seen as a driving force within the South London Partnership of five outer south west London boroughs focused on strategic growth, regeneration and investment.

All of this demonstrates a good track record and an authority that is ambitious and set to deliver more improvements for the borough. We've set out our vision for the future of Sutton in our corporate plan - Ambitious for Sutton. This strategic plan will shape the outcomes we achieve, the services we provide, and the impact we have on residents, to make Sutton a great place to live, work and raise a family.

Situated in Zone 5, Sutton is less than 30 minutes by train from central London, and south and south west London are easily accessible by public transport. There are 10 train stations which serve key neighbourhoods within the borough providing direct connections to London Victoria, London Bridge, London Blackfriars and St Pancras International. Sutton also has direct rail connections with Epsom, Dorking, Guildford and Horsham, as well as Wimbledon for an interchange with the London Underground and West Croydon for the London Overground. There’s also an extensive road network which provides close and easy access to the M25 and M23.

**About the Service and Team**

London Borough of Sutton are offering an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in the continued development of Willow Rise Children’s Home. Wanting the best for our children, we are developing our current in-house residential services to best meet the needs of our children. Following significant Council investment, our new Residential Strategy seeks to bring children closer to families and the communities that they know, living in high quality provision designed around them. We are looking for Residential Care Support Workers who will be fully supported by hands on, committed managers, great access to training and a support network including our Therapeutic Support Hub.

We work within children’s social care's well-established restorative practice and trauma informed model. Sutton is fully committed to training which fosters skills and expertise around therapeutically working with and supporting children who have experienced developmental trauma. All staff will be required to undertake Restorative Practice and Trauma Informed practice training. We expect our Residential Care Support workers to offer dynamic evening routines and activities to holistic support the needs of the young people at Willow Rise.

We are a registered provision and we are working towards achieving outstanding status with a recent GOOD ofsted judgement in all areas.

**About the role**

Waking Night Residential Care Support Workers will provide care for the chidren living within Willow Rise Residential Services, ensuring the have healthy night time routines, preparing them for the day ahead.

**This will include;**
- Maintaining a loving, caring well kempt environmnet for our children
- Providing healthy and appropriately stimulating evening and night time routines for our children
- Supporting our children to attend to their personal care needs and support with independent living skills
- Suppoort children to prepare for and engage with education and positive activities
- Safeguard our children in line with policies ensuring robust, traume informed resilient responses to incidents, missing episodes and wider safeguarding concerns
- Ensure that high quality records are kept which will include, incident reports, daily records, session evaluations, weekly reports, etc

**About you**
- We are looking for compassionate individuals with the capacity to connect with teenagers. You will have a demonstrable track record in this. While you will bring plenty of empathy to the role, you will also be able to set and maintain boundaries with children and young people
- so you will need to demonstrate patience and resilience.
- It would be ideal if you have experience of working with children or young people in a residential setting.
- You must have experience working with children with complex needs in one of the following settings - Children's residential Care, Youth Work, Targeted Youth Work or Youth Offending
- Ability to find and use creative ways to communicate with children, you will also be quick to learn, and willing to work
flexibly and innovatively to meet the changing and challenging needs of the children.
- Ability to form trusted relationships with young people in your care by supporti