Job Description

Role: Residential Support Worker

Salary: £26,000 per annum

Location: Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Contract/Hours: Permanent – Full time – 37 hours a week.

Benefits:

29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous.
Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
Supportive supervision.
Free parking.
Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life insurance.
Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.
We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer.

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

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A bit about the role:

Do you have a strong background in children's residential care? Are you focused and passionate about changing the lives of children and young people for the better? We have a unique opportunity for residential staff to join our team.

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.

About the service

Summerfields is a six-bed residential home for Children and young people aged between 5 and 18 years old with complex additional needs. The home offers a place of laughter fun and new experiences where the young person can thrive, learn, and develop helping them to achieve a positive future.

This is an exciting, challenging and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact.

The successful applicant will have a real opportunity to work as part of a well-established thriving team, who will improve the outcomes of children and young people by providing safe, stable, and loving homes for them to live and thrive in.

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.
Being resilient in supporting the young people through challenging situations.

Let's talk about you, 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.
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.

Good to know.

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

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Contact: Sarah Manderfield or email us at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13154

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 for all groups in society and for Action for Children.

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