Senior Night Life Practitioner

**About The Role**:
**SENIOR NIGHT LIFE PRACTITIONER**

Due to continued organisational growth and development opportunities for our current staff, we are recruiting for a Senior Night Life Practitioner to join our staff teams

**About the position**:
Reporting into the Registered Manager, the Senior Night Life Practitioner is responsible for advocating and providing person centred care and supporting our staff team to perform their wide range of duties appropriately and effectively, ensuring they can deliver the best possible care and support to our residents.

**What will you be doing**:

- Positively contribute to the personal development of our residents with both practical and emotional support.
- Lead by example, behave and communicate appropriately at all times.
- Design, implement, deliver and contribute in a wide range of innovative and exciting recreational events within the home and wider community. This will involve regular outings and trips and on occasion, extended visits and holidays.
- Using knowledge and experience, contribute positively to care planning and participate supportively in reviews as requested, demonstrating a sound knowledge regarding nutrition and hygiene.
- Maintain accurate, clear and concise record keeping.
- Take ownership for key-worker duties and where appropriate look to develop and strengthen links with families, friends and relevant significant others.
- Work in partnership with the Manager to ensure streamlined service delivery and consistent communication across the homes.
- Proactively participate in supporting the staff team to include carrying out supervisions as requested.
- Attend and contribute positively to regular staff meetings and hand-over meetings, ensuring all relevant information is disseminated appropriately and in a timely manner.
- Contribute positively to the training and development of the staff team to include own personal development / highlighting any training needs.

**About You**:
**What experience and qualifications do you need**:

- Diploma Level 2 in Health & Social Care
- Experience of providing care and support to young adults, ideally young adults with disabilities, autism and complex needs
- Competent written and oral communication skills to include computer literacy

**What will you get in return**:

- Genuine career development opportunities with transparent pay grades (find out more here - Kisimul | Autism, Learning Disability, Residential Care)
- Fully funded qualifications - Diploma Level 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care
- Blue Light card - which give you access to discounts in over 15,000 venues UK wide
- Refer a friend - Earn upto £500 through our refer a friend scheme
- WageStream - a financial wellbeing app, allowing you early access to some of your wages for those unforeseen expenses
- Life Assurance
- Flexible working patterns

**About Kisimul Group**:
Kisimul Group Ltd are a group of independent specialist schools and adult provisions providing exceptional residential care and award-winning education to children, young people and adults with a diagnosis of Autistic Spectrum Disorder, severe and complex learning difficulties, global development delay and associated challenging behaviour.

Kisimul is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults, children and young people, and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Kisimul is committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all

All applicants will be required to undertake an enhanced DBS Check. Kisimul Group Ltd is an equal opportunities employer.