Waking Night Staff Home Care Support Worker

**Waking night staff home care support worker**: Posted on 29 April 2025 Apply
- Directorate BHCC: Families, Children and Wellbeing
- Salary £27,269 - £27,711 full time without relevant qualification (£14.13 - £14.36 per hour) £28,163 - £30,060 with relevant qualification (£14.60 -£15.58) plus enhancements for evenings, weekends and bank holidays
- Contract Permanent

**Location**:
Rainbow Lodge

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**Job Summary**:
- Job reference

orbis/TP/303802/44915- Positions available

1- Working hours

23-28 Hours per week- Closing date

14 May 2025- Job category

Care - Children and Young People- Organisation

Brighton & Hove City Council

**Job introduction**:
Do you have a background of working with children with learning disabilities? Are you someone who enjoys working in a rewarding, supportive, and a challenging environment? Can you work with a diverse range of stakeholders in an inclusive and accessible way?

We have an exciting opportunity within our Families, Children and Learning Directorate where you will get to make a real difference in the lives of children with learning difficulties. Every team member plays a vital part in helping our young people to thrive, and as a highly successful team we support each other to deliver our service with fairness and inclusivity. We are committed to delivering an outstanding service and to making Health and Disability Services accessible to everyone.

**About the role**:
Rainbow Lodge is a new children's home due to open mid April in the Woodinngdean area. We will provide full-time placements for young people with learning disabilities and behaviours that challenge between the ages of 5 and 17.

Staff will work hard to create a positive, safe, stimulating, and homely environment in which each young person’s specific needs are met and they are supported to develop and learn new skills while having fun. Particular emphasis is given to those skills that promote independence.

As a Home Care Support Worker, you will:

- Support our young people from diverse backgrounds with intimate personal care when required.
- Use a range of inclusive and accessible communication tools to help our young people express themselves.
- Undertake a range of domestic tasks including cleaning, shopping, providing freshly prepared meals.
- Support your colleagues and yourself to stay safe during times of challenging behaviour.

You will be someone with:

- The experience of looking after children with learning disabilities.
- Inclusive and accessible communication skills for interaction with service users, families, social workers, and medical professionals.
- A clear Enhanced DBS Certificate

**Benefits**:

- Funding and support within two years for a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or equivalent qualification).
- Support with in-house training to improve skills and knowledge.
- An opportunity to increase your skill and experience for future roles within social care, education and childcare.
- Enhancements over weekends, and bank holidays.

You will need to be able to work a 4-week rolling rota as follows:
**Night shifts: 9.15pm to 7.15am**

There is an expectation waking night staff will attend one team meeting a month and undertake necessary training which is included in number of hours worked.

For more information about the organisation and the specific tasks required, please download the job description / person specification.

**Additional information**:
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us

**Company information**:
**Encouraging a diverse workforce**

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and How we create a fair and inclusive workplace.