Job Description

Job Title: Children’s Residential Support Worker
Location: Leicestershire (Hybrid)
Pay Rate: £29,120-£32,840 per annum (depending on experience) (Plus overtime)

About the role:

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Residential Support Worker to join a fantastic home for children and young people aged 11 – 17 with backgrounds of trauma and emotional behavioural difficulties. You will be working for an incredible local Children’s Homes provider who works across Leicestershire.

What will your responsibilities be?

• As the Residential Support worker, you will provide a high standard of care and support to vulnerable young people with emotional behaviour difficulties and/or self-esteem issues in order to maximise individual potential. You will demonstrate positive attitudes, patience, understanding and respect in providing care to the children and young people. To maintain a flexible, caring, and sensitive approach to service delivery, regardless of young peoples’ individual cultural, religious and/or sexual diversity.
• To work in a professional manner, and to develop a good working relationship with both children and young people and other outside agencies. You will create positive relationships with the children, meeting their needs and safeguarding them at all times. You will create timetables, setting boundaries and expectations for the young people. Consistency and organisation skills are key.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive training
• A funded QCF qualification
• Employment assistance programme, i.e. access to counselling and support
• A career pathway for progression
• Additional pay for sleep-ins’
• Generous Annual entitlement

Qualifications and Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have;

• Hold a Level 3 or 4 in Residential Childcare or be working towards this
• Good knowledge around Children’s Homes regulations (2015), Children’s Homes Regulations including the quality standards
• Ideally hold at least 1 years’ experience within a children’s residential homes
• Hold a Full UK driving licence

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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