Childrens Support Worker Secured Home

**Swanwick Lodge**

Core Information
- Full Time positions
- 37 hours a week
- Shifts on rota basis, mixture of early late and sleep in
- 7:30 - 15:15
- 14:00 - 22:30
- Sleep in shifts
- £17.78 Per hour

Desired Skills/Experience:

- Level 3 Qualification in childcare
- 3 day First aid course
- Will have to complete level 4 apprenticeship
- Introduction to Safeguarding
- Experience of at least 6 months with working with children and adolescence
- Experience in restraint training
- Level 2 food hygiene
- Team teach or equivalent - although HCC will put them through this training.
- Enhanced DBS
- Understand safeguarding

**Information about Swanwick Lodge**
- Swanwick Lodge provides secure accommodation for young people aged 10 -17

of a mixed gender. We understand that the young people we care for have often

experienced developmental and acute trauma, requiring a special kind of trauma

focused, therapeutic parenting.
- Our primary aim is to help young people feel safe and emotionally contained,

enabling them to begin to build trusting relationships with adults and other young

people. It is through these relationships that we can support young people in

meeting their individual care, education, and health needs in preparation for reintegration into the community.
- A secure unit for youths with challenging behaviour and are at the home on

welfare basis. There is a school on site which all have to attend.
- They have capacity for 16. All have their own secure room, bed, TV unit/ digital

packages touch screen TV. Own bathroom.
- Each section has their own kitchen and they also have a main kitchen, and onsite

cook / chef that provides all the meals.

**Children**
- Very challenging behaviour; Violence, aggression, self-harm, verbal abuse,

allegations (CCTV is throughout the building).
- Individual risk assessments on each child
- Ages 11 - 17 years

Main Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

- Work as part of the team to deliver the ethos and outcomes set out in the Statement

of Purpose
- Demonstrate the ability to make and sustain positive relationships with children and

their families
- Ensure that all recording such as incident reports are completed within the timeframe

required
- To be familiar with and follow all relevant statutory, policy, Codes of Practice and

procedure guideline requirements relevant to the home.
- Understand the needs of the children in the home and use this understanding to

inform interactions with the children, their families, and other professionals
- Attend and contribute to meetings relating to the child, representing the views of the

child, the home and HCC in a positive way
- Ensure you respond to the health needs of the children
- Ensure you support the children to make measurable progress towards their

education and life skills potential
- Use appropriate systems to measure how children make progress and/or benefit

from positive experiences and record the action taken to address any negatives
- Ensure you take reasonable care for your own health and safety and contribute to

the safe functioning of the home
- Ensure you continually and actively assess the risks to each child and the

arrangements in place to protect them
- Report and respond to any child protection concern in line with departmental

procedures
- Ensure any practice which causes concern, or is clearly outside of policy is

addressed with the senior member of staff on duty or a member of the management

team
- Meet the children’s basic needs in a way which demonstrates care for the child,

acknowledges their individuality and enables them to learn how to meet their own

needs

Contribute to, and follow individual behaviour management plans including physical

handling strategies such as Team Teach
- Keep accurate, clear, and factual records
- Receive, transmit, store, and retrieve information in line with good practice and

departmental policy and procedure
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with children, their families,

colleagues, and others advocating for children and progressing the aims of the home
- Ensure you develop knowledge of relevant legislation and client group strategies
- Undertake the required training and qualifications as specified by regulation and in

accordance with the model of care used in the home
- Can demonstrate emotional literacy in relationship to self and others
- Is physically able to undertake the demands of the job
- Can undertake 24-hour shifts (late shift, sleep in, early shift) and work evenings,

weekends, and bank holidays on a rota basis.

**Salary**: From £17.78 per hour

Day range:

- Monday to Friday

Shift:

- Day shift
- Night shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

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

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Home care: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (prefer