Senior residential support worker
Job Introduction
Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People? Our children’s home in Lower Broughton, North Manchester provides residential Care for Children and Young People with challenging and complex behaviours, along with mild learning difficulties.
As one of the UK's best employers we are looking for a dedicated, proactive and highly experienced children's residential support worker.
Location: Lower Broughton, North Manchester
Hours: 37.5 hours - Full Time / Permanent
Salary: £30,912 per year (£15.85ph)
Enhancements: Sleep-in allowance of £107.60 per sleep shift
Time and a quarter paid for weekend hours worked (£19.81ph)
We believe that everyone deserves a place to call home - whether that's a place to call your own or somewhere to get safety, stability and support. You’ll be helping children to grow their independence and shape their own story within a supportive, caring home.
You will be working in a caring home environment with the wider team under the leadership of the Registered Manager, nurturing, and supporting the young people providing them with all the care, love, and support that they would receive as if it was their family home.
Responsibilities include but are not exhaustive
- Provide a caring, safe, secure and accepting environment that meets the basic physical, health, social needs and rights of the young people.
- Support less experienced staff via positive and effective team working, to achieve high quality standards of care.
- Participate to establish an enabling culture, which individually and in groups, actively promotes the young people’s life chances to achieve optimal outcomes in line with the Quality care standards.
- Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of systems and policies.
- Supervise and/or undertake key working responsibilities, including primary responsibility for the more complex cases, especially where safeguarding issues are involved.
- Develop, demonstrate, promote and maintain a good level of awareness of safeguarding issues, assessing and recording risk.
- Make assessments of need and coordinate the formulation of plans to enable these needs to be met. ,
- Maximise educational opportunities and achievements for young people.
- Supervise and undertake direct work that is designed to meet the young person’s needs as identified within the care plan
- Establish and maintain positive and productive networks with communities and other agencies to achieve optimal outcomes and to implement practices.
- Contribute to the assessment and appraisal of team members using discussion, direct observation.
- Promote a positive image of the Trust through professional presentation at meetings in clear, factual report writing.
- Take responsibility for the promotion of safeguarding and the welfare of children and young persons for who they are responsible for.
About You.
- QCF Level 4 in Children, Young People and Families Practitioner or equivalent is an essential requirement of this role. (All equivalent eligible qualifications are listed on the application form).
- Significant childcare experience, within a Children's Residential setting.
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Working with statutory and voluntary agencies
- Flexibility to respond to the needs of the unit and young people
- Good communication skills and interpersonal skills
- Good organisational and time management skills
- A current clean driving licence
Benefits
- Annual Leave27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
- Generous pension schemeand death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
- Occupational sick payand family friendly policies includingenhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
- Reward and Discount platformoffering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
- Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
- Proud to be a real living wage employer
- Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
- Long service awardsincluding cash gifts and extra holiday.
- Promotion of Wellbeingacross the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programmefor you and adults at your home
We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.
If there is any part of your lived experience, you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can do to support you
This role will involve regulated activity.