Residential Support Worker

3 weeks ago

Swansea, United Kingdom Action for Children Full time

Residential Support Worker - Disability Short Breaks

Salary: £24,800 per annum (£23,459 per annum pro-rata)

Location: Swansea

Contract/Hours: Permanent Part-time - 35 hours per week

Benefits:

  • 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
  • Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
  • Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
  • Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
  • Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

Our Residential Support Workers create a safe and supportive environment for children and young people to grow and develop. You will ensure their wellbeing is prioritised by delivering personalised care, guidance and advocacy. It is key that they stay safe and healthy and can reach their full potential.

In return we will offer you amazing opportunities to progress within our organisation.​

We offer an in-depth induction process and training. Alongside this, we will enrol you in the qualifications which you need to work in the industry. Regular supervision with your line manager, team meetings etc. will ensure you feel part of our team.

Once you have gained the relevant experience and qualifications you will be ready to progress to the next step in your career with us.

About the service

Ty Laura provides Short Break overnight stays for children and young people with complex additional learning and health needs on a minimum of 2 nights per month basis. We support up to 4 children a night, across 6 days a week. As part of a friendly and supportive team you will provide opportunities for the young people to develop socially, behaviourally, emotionally, independent living skills as well as supporting them to integrate in their local community.

Our aim is to provide opportunities and experiences that widen the individuals sense of belonging through our individualised support. We want our young people to be seen for the happy, bubbly individuals they are and not their disability. You will support them to attend trips including bowling, cinema, Buzz Trampoline park etc as well as supporting with medication, personal care, feeding and dressing.

You'll be a key role model to the people we support. Your role will also require you to attend training, team meetings and take part in supervisions to aid your development and ability to provide high quality individualised support to our young people.

The shifts for this role are typically worked over 5 days with a set weekend off every four weeks. Examples of this include morning shifts starting at 7am (finishing between 11am and 2pm), afternoon shifts starting between midday and 2pm (finishing at 9pm and 10pm) and waking nights starting at 9pm (finishing at 8am). There is also a requirement to complete Sleep-ins which are paid £50 additional per sleep in to salary. All shifts will be given in advance and are allocated on a rolling rota basis.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

  • Provide lead case/care planning management, including assessing, reviewing and managing risk
  • Co-ordinating responsibilities within the service, with multi agency and producing family information, including analysis and written reports
  • Attendance at professional meetings including reviews, court work etc.
  • Supporting with taking part in fun activities, learn new skills and work towards independence
  • Supporting with personal care, communication, administration of medication and clinical procedures

Let's talk about you

Are you resilient and have a positive approach to change and challenge? We are looking for someone with a 'can do' attitude to join our team. Ideally you will have:

  • Demonstrable experience of working in a care setting and developing positive relationships through trust
  • Application of a range of techniques to co-ordinate and communicate with service users and their families
  • Demonstrate a solution focused approach to address problems, individually and in a team setting
  • Demonstrate emotional resilience to respond to the challenging nature of the role
  • Registration with Social Care Wales, or if not supported by us to complete
  • Possess a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or recognised equivalent) or if you do not possess this you must be prepared to complete this within 2 years of commencing employment with us, full support will be provided.

Good to know 

Please note we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

Application Process

There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.

Contact: Scott Jones via email at quoting reference 10193 

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Don't meet every single requirement?

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.

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