Support Worker

4 days ago

Leek, United Kingdom Vetro Lancashire Full time

Support Worker / Young People / Leek

Children's Residential Support Worker to join a Children's Residential service in Leek. You will be Supporting young people between the ages of 9-19 with Learning / Physical disabilities, complex health needs and autism.

Overview:

- Title: Children's Residential Support Worker
- Location: Leek
- Contract: Permanent
- Hours: Full Time

**Benefits**:

- Free meals whilst on shift
- Getting paid to go Shopping, Theme Parks, Zoos, swimming & many more activities
- Casual dress code
- Company pension
- Access to discounts for shopping outlets, restaurants and cinemas
- Comprehensive Training Package including scheduled ongoing face-to-face training and CPD planning
- Plenty of opportunities to maximise earnings and career development
- Enhanced disclosure cost coverage

The role:
What you will be doing as a Children's Residential Support Worker:

- To ensure that the children are safe and protect them from risks to their health and
welfare
- All aspects of care including personal care
- To keep the homely, friendly culture and environment of the homes.
- Keeping on top of household chores such as cleaning & doing laundry
- To be able to deal with challenging behaviours when needed.
- Provide support for the children and young people in the home and promote their
independence and well-being.
- Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of the individual’s care plan, guidelines, reward
system and preferred method of communication.
- Supporting poor behaviour safely and sympathetically.
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with the staff, parents, Social
Workers and other professionals that may be involved in the young people’s lives
such as Psychologists.

What you will need to be a successful Children's Residential Support Worker
- You MUST be willing to carry out personal care duties
- Ideally be a driver as you will be required to transport the young people from time
to time
- You MUST be an empathetic and relatable person, have good listening and
communication skills, and a natural instinct to help others
- You MUST be able to commute to Leek

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

**Salary**: £25,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Leek, Staffordshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

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