Waking Night Assistant

**Job details**:
Job reference

REQ4868

Date posted

08/11/2024

Application closing date

17/11/2024

Location

Various locations across Leicester City

Salary

£25,584, - £27,269 Per Year

Package

Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): £37,021.13

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Job category/type

Childrens Social Care

Attachments

Job Specification Waking Nights.pdf

**Waking Night Assistant**:
Job description

Play a key role in ensuring the emotional, physical, and social well-being of the looked after children of Leicester City.

Join our ever improving and expanding service, ensuring children are at the heart of our work. We are committed to working in partnership with children, families, and young adults to achieve the best outcomes. Based at any one of our 6 children’s homes or one of our newly opening homes based across the Leicester City Suburbs. You'll provide care, guidance and support to children and young people, some of which have challenging behaviours, disabilities, or complex health care needs.

These are full time, permanent posts working 37 hours per week from 10pm to 8am. This will include working on weekends and bank holidays. For weekend working, payment will be at plain time plus a premium of 33.3%. For night work, as defined as the hours 24:00 to 05:00. Payment will be at plain time plus 33% for any hours worked during this period. Where a shift includes the full period 24:00 to 05:00 then the above plus rate applies to all the hours of the shift.

It is expected that Waking Night staff will not sleep on duty. You’ll be required to work from whatever location is necessary at the time and will be able to make your own way to your place of work, whether this be by your own car or public transport.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll provide consistent care when working with children and young people whilst being flexible and approach all tasks (including personal care), in a positive manner to ensure that the needs of the individual are paramount throughout the night. Having experience with housekeeping you’ll complete various tasks such as cleaning surfaces, washing dishes, vacuuming, emptying waste bins, basic sewing repairs etc. You’ll manage stripping bed, soiled clothing/bedding, laundry sorting, washing, ironing, and distributing the linen. You’ll report any incidents/accidents involving children as soon as practically possibly to the senior staff on duty, you’ll risk assess the building regularly to ensure that everything is in order and report any breaches of building security. You’ll ensure that the appropriate records relating to children and young people and the team are kept up to date in the agreed format and are securely managed and filed.

What you’ll need

With the ability to build appropriate and trusting relationships with children and young people, you’ll develop their self esteem and confidence. Having experience of working with people, and particularly those with challenging behaviour, you’ll approach situations in a diplomatic and sensitive manner. You’ll have some previous experience working in a caring role, with knowledge of moving and handling, you’ll be physically fit to assist with lifting, in order to provide personal care. Using your good level of communication skills, you’ll be able to give and receive verbal handovers, write notes and report, including observations of children and young people. As an organised individual you’ll be able to manage own workload with minimum direction.

What we can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.

We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.

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