Residential Child Care Officer

2 weeks ago

Gateshead, United Kingdom Ashdown Care Full time

**Residential Childcare Officer - Days & Waking Nights**

**Gateshead**
- **£13.02 per hour**_
- **36-48 hours pre week and alternate weekends.**_

We are currently looking for Support Workers to join our team based in and around the above areas to help care for Children in our Children's Service

**What’s on Offer?**
- Paid mandatory and ongoing career development training
- Genuine progression opportunities
- Chances to spin our WOW-Wheel
- Flexibility around family commitments
- Refer-a-friend bonus
- Loyalty bonuses.
- Exceptional support from a company genuinely focused on changing people’s lives

**About the role**:
Our Support Workers aid with all aspects of care inclusive of social, recreational, physical, and psychological needs of the service user.  You will be required to enable Service Users to lead fulfilling lives based upon their personal support needs. You will work to high standards set internally and externally. doing all you can to make sure that the children we support,

**What you will need**:
**Essential**:

- **Experience working in a residential childcare setting**:

- Respectful of the dignity of service users
- Ability to maintain service user confidentiality
- Ability to relate to service users and their needs
- A desire to create a comfortable, harmonious, supportive, and fulfilling environment for service users
- A commitment to undertaking relevant training and personal development
- Basic literacy and numeracy
- Ability to work in and contribute to a team
- Approachable, calm and patient
- Good listening abilities
- Reliable and honest
- Ability to communicate with peers, professionals, and service users
- Committed to the principles and practice of Equal Opportunities
- Committed to the provision of high-quality care
- Caring and sympathetic
- Friendly, positive demeanour

**Desirable **:

- Experience in the field of learning disabilities, mental health, or physical disabilities
- Experience of providing personal care
- Writing and maintenance of care plans
- Organising social and recreational activities
- Level 2 or 3 in Children's and Young peoples workforce

**Requirements**:

- Compassion, dedication, and reliability.
- Be able to work 33 + hours per week
- An enhanced DBS check.
- Ashdown employees are required to promote the welfare and safeguarding of all children and vulnerable adults at all times.

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

Pay: £13.02 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Night shift
- Weekend availability

**Experience**:

- Childcare: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

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