Residential Childcare Officer

1 week ago

Gateshead, United Kingdom Ashdown Care Full time

**Residential Childcare Officer - Waking Nights**

**Gateshead**

**£13.02 per hour**

36 hours per week and alternate weekends.

We are currently looking for residential childcare officers to join our team based in and around Gateshead to help care for children and young people 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 residential childcare officer's 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**:

- 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**:

- Key worker experience 
- 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 people’s workforce

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

Pay: £13.02 per hour

Expected hours: 36 per week

**Benefits**:

- Referral programme

Work Location: In person

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