Job Title: Children’s Residential Support Worker, Senior Support Worker and Team Leader.Location: Northamptonshire
Pay Rate: £29,120-£32,840 per annum (Plus overtime) – dependent upon experience.
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Job Description:
We at Liquid Personnel have an exciting opportunity for a Residential Support Worker to join one of our client’s fantastic homes for children and young people aged 11–17. The home supports individuals with backgrounds of trauma and emotional and behavioural difficulties. You will be working for an outstanding local children’s home provider operating across the Hertfordshire and North London area.
What will your responsibilities be?
1. Provide a high standard of care and support to vulnerable young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and/or self-esteem issues, helping them maximise their potential.
2. Demonstrate positive attitudes, patience, understanding, and respect when caring for children and young people.
3. Maintain a flexible, caring, and sensitive approach to service delivery, respecting individual cultural, religious, and sexual diversity.
4. Work in a professional manner and build strong working relationships with children, young people, and external agencies.
5. Create positive relationships with the children, meeting their needs and safeguarding them at all times.
6. Develop timetables, set boundaries, and establish clear expectations for young people.
7. Ensure consistency and demonstrate strong organisational skills in all aspects of care and support.
Benefits:
8. Comprehensive training
9. A funded QCF qualification
10. Employment assistance programme, i.e. access to counselling and support
11. A career pathway for progression
12. Additional pay for sleep-ins’
13. Generous Annual entitlement
Qualifications & Experience:
To be successful in this role you must have,
14. Hold a Level 3 or 4 in Residential Childcare or be working towards this
15. Good knowledge around Children’s Homes regulations (2015), Children’s Homes Regulations including the quality standards
16. Ideally hold at least 1 years’ experience within a children’s residential homes
17. 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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