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Secure Residential Support Worker (Swanwick Lodge) HCC587791 Southampton, England

HCC

Full Time Southampton, England 23703 - 26401 GBP ANNUAL Today

Job description

Job Details:

Salary range: £23,703 - £26,401 per annum (plus £5,000 market supplement per annum)
Salary after allowances: You can expect to earn between £28,000 - £34,000 when enhancements for market supplement, evenings and weekends are added.
Work location: Swanwick Lodge, Southampton, commutable from Winchester, Eastleigh, Portsmouth, Fareham

Hours per week: 37 (part time will be considered)

Contract type: Permanent

Contact details for an informal discussion: Call our Swanwick Lodge team on 01489 581913.

Please note, the first four weeks of the role will comprise an induction programme, including mandatory training.

About this role:

We have an opportunity for you to join our dedicated team as a Secure Residential Support Worker.

You will work as part of a diverse and supportive team of professional carers to provide a highly structured, stimulating and caring environment for young people who may display extreme behaviour and high levels of distress, and who may have great difficulty forming and maintaining relationships.

Your focus will be to act as a ‘therapeutic parent’ and role-model to the young people by forming positive, trusting relationships that enable them to feel safe and cared for. This requires you to have a great deal of patience, empathy and understanding, and the ability to be consistent, kind and respectful, even in the face of extremely challenging behaviour.

Experience of working with children, young people or adults within a residential, secure or similar setting is advantageous but not essential. You will be provided with training as well as regular ongoing training and support to develop both personal and professional skills.

Please visit our website to view the essential skills required for this role.

In return, Hampshire County Council can offer you an improved work-life balance through our excellent benefits package including:

Access to Local Government Pension Scheme (employer contributions starting at 16.1% of your salary).
Between 24 - 27 days annual leave entitlement (dependant on Local Authority service).
Interest free travel loans and discounts.
Employee Support Services.
Family friendly policies.
A Golden Hello payment of £250 or £500 if you already hold a relevant Level 3 Diploma qualification
A on off payment of £500 upon completion of your Level 3 Diploma (if you do not already hold this)
A retention payment of £3,000 upon achieving 3 years continuous service

You will work a shift pattern whereby you will work alternate weekends and a mixture of early and late shifts to suit your home-life balance, flexible working requests can be considered.

Please visit our website to view the full Job Description here

For more information about Swanwick Lodge, please visit our recruitment website here

Vetting Requirements:

This role requires an enhanced DBS disclosure (Criminal Records Check). As such, please note, we will take up references prior to interview.
This role requires a Safeguarding Check. As such, please note, all previous employment involving contact with children will be contacted for an additional reference.

Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.

Corporate Equalities Employment Policy: In order to combat indirect discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied to any for achieving equality of opportunity in its employment practices. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of their gender, disability, age, ethnic or national origin, marital status, creed, sexuality, trade union activity or responsibility for dependants unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification (GOQ) applies. In order to combat indirect discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied to which would have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group.

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