Residential Care Worker (Ty'r Orsaf)
Job description
Minimum age of Employment is 22 years old
About the role:
You will work on a shift basis in a small Children’s Home in a rural community within North Powys. The home supports children/young people with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties due to their early life experience. You will create a safe, healthy, learning, fulfilled home where children have their voices heard and acted upon to achieve positive outcomes in their lives.
The home runs of two different shift patterns as follows:1 full 15 hour day and a sleep in with 2 days of. Or 2 full 15 hour days with sleep in and four days off, both patterns equate to meeting a minimum of 158 hours per month and hours that go above this can be submitted as overtime.
About you:
1. We are looking for people who care and can connect with young people.
2. You will enjoy participating and sharing activities, interests, and life skills.
3. You can listen to children and young people with dignity and respect.
4. You will enjoy working in a small team that is reflective, resourceful, contributing to a culture of trust and open responsibility.
5. You will understand the importance of providing professional specialist to provide a safe and effective service, delivered in a way that is sensitive to the needs of children and young people.
What you will do:
6. You will work on a day shift rota to provide continuous care as part of team to the children and young people living in the home.
7. You will build positive relationships through nurture, teaching connection before correction with a patient and calm manner and promote healthy, safe routines by creating a warm, inclusive home.
8. You will organise and promote activities for children and young people to learn new things and explore interests, hobbies, and life skills within the home and the local community.
9. Work in partnership with families and carers of young people in achieving the aims and objectives of the young people’s plans.
10. You will follow agreed policies, procedures, and legislative standards in your work. Always striving to keep up to date with best practice.