social worker Hampshire
Job description
Medport Global is proud to be working in close partnership with local councils, providing dedicated support and expertise in recruitment to help strengthen their teams and ensure the highest quality candidates are selected for key positions.
Swanwick Lodge
Core Information
- Full Time positions
- 37 hours a week
- Shifts on rota basis, mixture of early late and sleep in
- 7:30 – 15:15
- 14:00 – 22:30
- Sleep in shifts
- £17.78 Per hour
Desired Skills/Experience :
- Level 3 Qualification in childcare
- 3 day First aid course
- Will have to complete level 4 apprenticeship
- Introduction to Safeguarding
- Experience of at least 6 months with working with children and adolescence
- Experience in restraint training
- Level 2 food hygiene
- Team teach or equivalent – although HCC will put them through this training.
- Enhanced DBS
- Understand safeguarding
Information about Swanwick Lodge
- Swanwick Lodge provides secure accommodation for young people aged 10 -17
of a mixed gender. We understand that the young people we care for have often
experienced developmental and acute trauma, requiring a special kind of trauma
focused, therapeutic parenting.
- Our primary aim is to help young people feel safe and emotionally contained,
enabling them to begin to build trusting relationships with adults and other young
people. It is through these relationships that we can support young people in
meeting their individual care, education, and health needs in preparation for reintegration into the community.
- A secure unit for youths with challenging behaviour and are at the home on
welfare basis. There is a school on site which all have to attend.
- They have capacity for 16. All have their own secure room, bed, TV unit/ digital
packages touch screen TV. Own bathroom.
- Each section has their own kitchen and they also have a main kitchen, and onsite
cook / chef that provides all the meals.
Children
- Very challenging behaviour; Violence, aggression, self-harm, verbal abuse,
allegations (CCTV is throughout the building).
- Individual risk assessments on each child
- Ages 11 – 17 years
Main Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
- Work as part of the team to deliver the ethos and outcomes set out in the Statement
of Purpose
- Demonstrate the ability to make and sustain positive relationships with children and
their families
- Ensure that all recording such as incident reports are completed within the timeframe
required
- To be familiar with and follow all relevant statutory, policy, Codes of Practice and
procedure guideline requirements relevant to the home.
- Understand the needs of the children in the home and use this understanding to
inform interactions with the children, their families, and other professionals
- Attend and contribute to meetings relating to the child, representing the views of the
child, the home and HCC in a positive way
- Ensure you respond to the health needs of the children
- Ensure you support the children to make measurable progress towards their
education and life skills potential
- Use appropriate systems to measure how children make progress and/or benefit
from positive experiences and record the action taken to address any negatives
- Ensure you take reasonable care for your own health and safety and contribute to
the safe functioning of the home
- Ensure you continually and actively assess the risks to each child and the
arrangements in place to protect them
- Report and respond to any child protection concern in line with departmental
procedures
- Ensure any practice which causes concern, or is clearly outside of policy is
addressed with the senior member of staff on duty or a member of the management
team
- Meet the children’s basic needs in a way which demonstrates care for the child,
acknowledges their individuality and enables them to learn how to meet their own
needs
- Ensure you understand and apply the homes behaviour management strategy.
Contribute to, and follow individual behaviour management plans including physical
handling strategies such as Team Teach
- Keep accurate, clear, and factual records
- Receive, transmit, store, and retrieve information in line with good practice and
departmental policy and procedure
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with children, their families,
colleagues, and others advocating for children and progressing the aims of the home
- Ensure you develop knowledge of relevant legislation and client group strategies
- Undertake the required training and qualifications as specified by regulation and in
accordance with the model of care used in the home
- Can demonstrate emotional literacy in relationship to self and others
- Is physically able to undertake the demands of the job
- Can undertake 24-hour shifts (late shift, sleep in, early shift) and work evenings,
weekends, and bank holidays on a rota basis.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: From £17.78 per hour
Day range:
- Monday to Friday
Shift:
- Day shift
- Night shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Hampshire: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Education:
- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:
- Home care: 1 year (preferred)
Language:
- English (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (preferred)
Speak with the employer
+91 07833674011
