Residential Support Worker

**Salary**:£21,000 - £26,000 a year

**Job type**:Full-time Residential Support Worker

**WHY HIGHVIEW?**

Do you want to join a unique children’s home that makes a positive, lasting difference to children’s lives? Highview Children’s Home is an exciting provision that is looking for passionate individuals to join our brilliant team. We provide 24-hour residential care and support to children between 11-17 years of age, some of whom may have emotional or behavioural difficulties.

Are you an experienced Residential Worker or Youth Worker, or do you perhaps have some residential experience and are looking to progress a rewarding career in children’s residential care?

We are looking for determined, resilient people who have a calm but confident personality, a great sense of humour and a willingness to work with vulnerable teenagers with EBD.

We are looking for people who can provide a long-lasting, significant-adult relationships our children and young people need to thrive.

With our structured pay-scales and clear career progression, we can support you with the training and experience you need to develop into a more senior role, Deputy Manager or Residential Manager. Children benefit from having consistent, long-term adults in their lives, therefore your career progression within Highview is important to us.

Highview Children’s Home is built around accepting a child as they are in a non-judgmental way. You will teach them to build self-esteem and accept themselves, helping their journey through adolescence and into young adulthood.

**What this job involves**:
1. Establishing meaningful relationships and providing practical/emotional support to the children/young people living with us. Contribute towards the provision of a secure, stable and supportive environment that enables our residents to build the life-skills and resilience needed to make the transition from living in care to living independently.

2. To support the children/young people with their daily routines and care needs in line with their assigned care plan. Act as a good role model for the children and young people in the Home, offering good advice, guidance and assistance when needed.

3. To support children and young people to make their own choices and decisions, ensuring that their needs and wishes are fully considered in decisions relating to them. To enable children/young people to develop their social skills, and to access educational and leisure activities and promote their participation in these.

4. To ensure the protection of the children and young people from significant harm, by, observing changes in children’s behaviour or appearance and complying fully with the Home’s Safeguarding & Child Protection policy.

5. You will be responsible for key working named children, writing reports, maintaining up to date daily records and attending meetings with external professionals and other duties allocated to you.

6. Being knowledgeable of and following relevant policies and procedures to ensure the smooth running of the Home.

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**:

- Flexibility to work 12-hour shifts during day times, wake nights and weekends.
- Willingness to study and complete further training as identified by the manager.
- Enhanced DBS signed up to the update service.

**EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS**

**Required**:.
- Prior Experience of working with children and young people with EBD
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Ability to relate well to children and young people
- Ability to communicate with parents carers and other professionals
- Good time management and organisational skills

**Desirable**:

- Minimum Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or equivalent
- Prior experience working in a residential setting with children / young people
- Working Knowledge of residential childcare practice
- Strong knowledge of safeguarding & child protection practice
- Knowledge of Key working children

**BENEFITS**
- Excellent training provided including the FREE opportunity to study your Level 3 (or higher) Diploma for Residential Childcare.
- Supportive work environment with regular reflective supervision.
- Overtime opportunities and pay enhancements over public & bank holidays periods.
- Excellent career progression opportunities
- We will pay for your DBS check
- On-site parking and brief walk from underground and railway.

Highview Children’s Home values equality and diversity across our workforce and aims to ensure our staff community is reflective of the diversity of the children and young people within our care.

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

**Salary**: £21,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- London, N11: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- working with young people with EBD: 1 year (required)

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