Residential Waking Night Support Worker

**Park Blue Homes** has an exciting opportunity for a **WAKING NIGHT** **Children’s Home** **Residential Worker** to join our company in Evenwood, Bishop Auckland.

This is a great opportunity to join a progressive and trauma informed group of Children’s Homes with a focus on upholding the values and guidelines of a Therapeutic Community. The home is a 4 bed residential home specialising in providing care for young people with learning difficulties and emotional and behavioural difficulties. The home is based in Evenwood. The successful person will need to be able to commute easily to this location.

Waking Nights are paid at £150.00 per night, this is for a 10 hour shift from 21.30-07.30. The waking night contract is for a minimum of two waking nights per week with a maximum of 5 per week.

We also can offer paid sleep ins are £63/night, these are not contracted and can be booked on a ‘bank’ basis.

**Why choose Park Blue Homes?**

Park Blue Homes are proud members of The Consortium of Therapeutic Communities (TCTC) we pride ourselves on providing bespoke, trauma informed loving care to all the Children living within our Homes. We pride ourselves in upholding the core values and principles of a Therapeutic Community, this includes.
- Comprehensive and trauma informed training for every staff member including progressive leadership skills and community meetings and conferences to reflect and share information and learning.
- An integrated therapeutic support programme, based on the Pillars of Parenting (POP) therapeutic model.
- Beautiful and comfortable, homely homes with an emphasis on providing a safe environment with strength-based care and emotional attachment to all children.
- A culture of Emotional Warmth Parenting.
- Reflective and Progressive Ways of Working for all staff.
- Staff Wellness Programme including wellness Wednesdays, days off for birthday, Wellness shifts and fun wellbeing activities.
- a warm and welcoming environment to all that wish to come on board, we pride ourselves on working as a team to support one another.
- Career development opportunities.
- Full occupancy bonus between £30 - £50 per month.
- Referral scheme - £350 if you refer a friend and they pass their six-month probation.
- Long service salary reviews.
- Takeaway night for new starters.

As a Children’s Waking Night Support Worker, you will be key in helping our young people with EBD and learning difficulties. This can be a challenging role, but the rewards are incomparable to any other job. You will be working in an environment where the little things that you do every day could have life-changing results on the young people in our care. Your ambition for the people you supports will help them take steps to fulfilling their potential.

**What are the main duties of a Waking Night Support Worker?**
- To be involved with the evening care of our young people, this could include bedtime routines or attending to them through the night if they wake up or need some extra support.
- Ensuring that all children and staff working within the Home are effectively safeguarded during the night, be proactive and able to recognise times when we may need to protect people around us.
- To ensure the Home exceeds all standards as stated in the Children’s Home Regulations 2015 and all other legislation relevant to the therapeutic care of our children.
- To promote relationships as central to the working practice of our Homes. Taking an empathetic and engaging approach to working in partnership with young people and the rest of the team.
- To lead by example and be a role model for the children and young people.
- To promote effective team working. To understand the impacts of vicarious trauma and how this can affect the internal workings of the team. Be active within the companies staff wellbeing programme.
- Assisting with practical matters relating to care (cooking, washing, cleaning etc.). This role will involve some cleaning of the Home during the night, some of this will be deep thorough cleaning, laundry and tidying.
- Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural and cultural needs of the young people in our care.
- To be involved in reflective practise and engage in reflective supervision sessions to uphold our therapeutic thinking. This role will include attending reflective sessions within the Home during the day and following any difficult periods.
- To complete paperwork that is required of the waking night and to record tasks done during the shift, this may include handling and administering of medication, updating Life Story Books. (All training given for these tasks).
- To ensure that all finance budgets, control, administration and records comply with Park Blue Ltd's procedures.
- To promote and implement the company’s policies and procedures and ensuring that they are attachment based and trauma informed.

**Skills and Qualifications**

**Essential**
- Experience in Residential Children’s Social Care is an advantage.
- An