Children and Young Adults Residential Support Worker

**Job Title**

Residential Children and young adults Support Worker

**Job Purpose**

To support looked after children and young adults with complex needs based in Carlisle and create a family nurturing environment for children and young people. You’ll be part of a support team ensuring children's day to day needs are met, ensuring things run smoothly and children feel safe, supported and well cared for. This will involve ensuring all personal care needs are met, medication support, emotional and behavioural support, health care needs met, supporting educational needs and social needs.

**Accountable to**

The registered manager - Sharon Baxter

**Main Activities**

You will be required to care for children with a variety of needs such as learning disabilities, physical disabilities, visual impairment, hearing impairment, global development delay, challenging behaviour, ADHD, Autism, behavioural, emotional and social difficulties and others. The aim of this role is to ensure children and young people are kept safe and cared for in a nurturing environment that supports their personal, emotional and social development and ensures all of their health care needs are met at all times.

As a Support worker you must be sensitive and responsive to the race, culture, religion, age, disability, gender, and sexuality of the child who is receiving care and their representatives.

You will provide care according to the child’s specific diagnosis and needs. Your duties may include:

- Supporting children with educational needs
- Supporting children's emotional, behavioural and social needs
- Supporting children's health needs
- Personal care
- Management of incontinence
- Management of MRSA
- Supporting a healthy lifestyle and exercise as appropriate to the child’s abilities
- Moving and Handling
- Transporting and supporting children to attend school, appointments, family liaisons and for social activities
- Communicating effectively with the child, the multi-disciplinary team and Cumbria Quality Care
- Keeping accurate, factual written accounts of your time with the children
- Actively safeguard and promote the welfare of children
- Following the Cumbria quality Care policy with Medication as outlined in the policies and procedures
- Observing and following the Cumbria Quality Care health and safety policy

You will be also be required to perform tasks such as:

- Meal preparation
- Household duties which will include:
Laundry, dusting, vacuuming, tidying, bed making, keeping the refrigerator clean and ensuring the contents have not expired.
- Shopping - ensuring all receipts are kept
- Any other duties which may be part of a managing the home

**Knowledge and expertise**
- General care experience of working with children
- Ideally some experience in caring for children
- Ideally Diploma in children and young peoples workforce

**Essential requirements**

An enhanced disclosure with the Criminal Records Bureau.

**Benefits of working for Cumbria Quality Care**

Cumbria Quality Care is a small family run supportive company. We are flexible employers and understand that not all shift patterns fit all. We discuss each individuals needs to ensure we can agree a suitable working pattern that works for both Cumbria Quality Care and each individual. We support staff at every step of the way throughout their career with us and promote growth and development within a variety of areas. Other benefits include
- Full induction provided
- Shadowing shifts
- Full training provided
- DBS cost met by Cumbria Quality Care
- 28 days annual leave (Pro rata)
- Pension
- Competitive rates of pay
- Bonus schemes
- Opportunity to specialise in a particular area
- Internal promotion
- Local discount scheme with a variety of cafe's, restaurants, beauticians and exercise classes
- By becoming a key worker you gain access to 'Discounts for carers' website and the opportunity to join 'The blue light card' scheme which offers fantastic discounts from thousands of purchases

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

**Salary**: £12.00-£12.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Store discount

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Carlisle: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
- Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)