Children's Residential Support Worker London, England
Job description
Residential Support worker - Children's Home
Salary: £23,000 - £29,000 a year
Job type: Full-time Experienced Residential Support Worker
preferred: Diploma/NVQ Level 3 / 4– Residential Childcare equivalent
WHY HIGHVIEW?
Do you want to join a unique children’s home that makes a positive, lasting difference to children’s lives? Highview Children’s Home is an exciting provision that is looking for passionate individuals to join our brilliant team. We provide 24-hour residential care and support to children and young people between 11-17 years of age, some of whom may have challenging emotional or behavioural difficulties.
Are you an experienced Residential Worker or Youth Worker looking to boost your experience in this field and build a rewarding career in children’s residential care?
We are looking for determined, resilient support staff who have a calm but confident personality, a great sense of humour and a willingness to work with vulnerable teenagers who need support to overcome challenging behaviour, past trauma, social and emotional difficulties, and mental health difficulties.
We are looking for people who are interested in providing the long-lasting, significant-adult relationships our children and young people need in their lives to provide them with the stability and consistency needed to thrive.
With our structured pay-scales and clear career progression pathways, we can support you with the training and experience you need to develop further or progress into a Deputy Manager or Residential Manager. Children benefit from having consistent, long-term adults in their lives, therefore your career progression within Highview is important to us.
Highview Children’s Home is built around accepting a child as they are in a non-judgemental way. You will teach them to build self-esteem and accept themselves, helping their journey through adolescence and into young adulthood.
CORE DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Establishing meaningful relationships and providing practical/emotional support to the children/young people living with us. Contribute towards the provision of a secure, stable and supportive environment that enables our residents to build the life-skills and resilience needed to make the transition from living in care to living independently.
2. To support the children/young people with their daily routines and care needs in line with their assigned care plan. Act as a good role model for the children and young people in the Home, offering good advice, guidance and assistance when needed.
3. To support children and young people to make their own choices and decisions, ensuring that their needs and wishes are fully considered in decisions relating to them. To enable children/young people to develop their social skills, and to access educational and leisure activities and promote their participation in these.
4. To ensure the protection of the children and young people from significant harm, by, observing changes in children’s behaviour or appearance and complying fully with the Home’s Safeguarding & Child Protection policy.
5. You will be responsible for:
- Contributing to risk-assessments,
- Weekly one to one key-working with the young people,
- Writing progress reports,
- Maintaining accurate and up to date daily records
- Attending meetings with external professionals and other duties allocated to you.
6. Being knowledgeable of and following relevant policies and procedures to ensure the smooth running of the Home.
7. To support the Registered Manager and Deputy Manager with:
- The running of the Home,
- Flagging areas of concern with the manager as they arise.
- Taking initiative to promote the daily care and experience of young people.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- Flexibility to work 12-hour shifts during day times, wake nights and weekends.
- Willingness to study and complete further training as identified by the manager with a minimum of Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare achieved by all Support Workers.
- Enhanced DBS signed up to the update service.
- You must be at least 22 years old or above to apply as per children’s homes regulations
EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS
- Diploma/NVQ Level 3 / 4 – residential child care or equivalent preferred
- Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
- Prior experience working in a residential care setting with children / young people with EBD
- Ability to relate well to children and young people
- Working knowledge of safeguarding & child protection practice
- Knowledge and experience of 1:1 Key-working
- Confident I.T. skills (including Word, Excel and use of e-mail)
- Good time management and organisational skills
- Ability to cook, clean and take initiative with domestic tasks.
BENEFITS
- Excellent training provided including the FREE opportunity to study for a Level 4 residential child care or Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management if you would like to progress further in your career
- Supportive work environment with regular reflective supervision.
- Overtime opportunities and pay enhancements over public & bank holidays periods.
- Excellent career progression opportunities
- We will pay for your DBS check
- On-site parking and brief walk from underground and railway.
The recruitment process aims to create and maintain a safe workforce and contains robust vetting procedures. The successful applicants will be appointed subject to references and enhanced DBS checks.
Highview Children’s Home values equality and diversity across our workforce and aims to ensure our staff community is reflective of the diversity of the children and young people within our care.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: £23,000.00-£29,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- 12 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
Ability to commute/relocate:
- London: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- children's residential care: 1 year (preferred)
- working with challenging young people: 1 year (required)
Licence/Certification:
- minimum L3 / 4 social care diploma or equivalent (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Shift availability:
- Day shift (required)
- Night shift (required)
- Overnight shift (preferred)
Work Location: In person
