Children’s Residential Support Worker

Out 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 in Northamptonshire. You will be working for an incredible local Children’s Homes provider who works across the East Midlands area.

Your key responsibilities as the Residential Support Worker:

• Provide a high standard of care and support to vulnerable young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and/or self-esteem issues to maximise individual potential.
• Demonstrate positive attitudes, patience, understanding, and respect when caring for children and young people.
• Maintain a flexible, caring, and sensitive approach to service delivery, respecting cultural, religious, and sexual diversity.
• Work in a professional manner and develop strong working relationships with children, young people, and external agencies.
• Create positive relationships with children, meeting their needs and safeguarding them at all times.
• Develop timetables, set boundaries, and establish clear expectations for young people.
• Ensure consistency and demonstrate strong organisational skills in all aspects of care and support.

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

Essential Requirement:

• 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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