Residential Childcare Worker

1 month ago

Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom Llamau Limited Full time

What we expect from you

  • To provide young people aged 14 plus with excellent care and support within the home. Ensuring high levels of emotional and physical care, appropriate activities, as well as a comfortable, safe and supportive environment are provided to the young people who live within the home,
  • Support the young people to build and manage relationships with their families, and others, as well as working with a range of external partners/services, to ensure that the young people receive the best possible standards of care and opportunities whilst living within the home.
  • Key working responsibilities with the young people using Psychological / trauma informed practice to provide a child-centred, kind and empathic approach to support being given.
  • Recording and evidencing all key work activities in line with both Llamau and CIW requirements. Supporting the Registered Manager and Deputy Manager to manage key areas of risk, including highlighting and escalating health and safety, and safeguarding concerns, and providing compliance information where required.
  • To build a warm, welcoming and non-judgement home for young people to feel empowered, nurtured and thrive.

Hours of Work: Full time, up to 46 hours, days and Sleep-ins.

What you can expect from us 

  • We will support you to reach your potential within your role through Psychologically led and informed reflective practice sessions in addition to standard support and supervision.
  • We will provide you with meals on shift where you will eat with the young people and become a part of their home.
  • We are passionate about nurturing talent, our senior leadership team includes colleagues that have progressed through the business from entry level roles
  • You will have the opportunity to gain additional qualifications as well as be trained by a multi-agency team of professionals.
  • Enhanced Group Pension Scheme of 10% contributions (after qualifying period)
  • Cycle to Work and Eye care voucher scheme
  • Business mileage: £0.45 per mile
  • You’ll also have free access to an internal wellbeing and counselling team

Person specification

Essential

Education

  • Current or expectation to register with Social Care Wales.
  • QCF level 3 in health and social care (children and young people) or equivalent or willingness to work towards within time period set by Social Care Wales.

Experience

  • Experience of working within safeguarding frameworks.
  • Experience of understanding the impact of trauma on children and Young People.
  • Experience of effectively managing risk in a responsive, but calm manner.
  • Experience of working in a psychologically and trauma informed environment.

Knowledge and Skills

  • Ability to key work, and engage with a number of young people who have a complex range of support needs.
  • Able to communicate effectively in writing and verbally, using appropriate tone and use of language.
  • To work on own initiative and under pressure, organising & prioritising work to meet deadlines.
  • Ability to build and maintain relationships.
  • Basic IT skills, Microsoft word, excel etc.
  • Work within the ethos of Llamau and its policies and procedures
  • Work within Health & Safety at Work regulations

Personal Qualities

  • Committed to work in a young person centered way
  • Ability to work constructively as part of a team
  • To communicate appropriately and in a non-judgemental way with young people
  • Being able to demonstrate commitment to Llamau’s values.
  • To promote independence and self-esteem whilst being a positive role model for young people.
  • To engage young people who are non-engaging, using innovative techniques.
  • Professional approach which includes strong professional boundaries.
  • Committed to reflective practise and striving for continuous improvement.

Other

  • Full UK driving licence.
  • This vacancy is open to those over the age of 22 only (Exempt under the Equality Act 2010, pursuant to schedule 9, Part 1).

Llamau is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity across the whole organisation. We aim to establish an inclusive environment where every colleague feels safe and able to be themselves at work. We would particularly encourage applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation. Appointments will always be made on merit.

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