About the Role
As a Support Worker in a Children’s Home, you will provide direct support and care for our young people, who have complex emotional and mental health difficulties (such as trauma and loss),and can struggle to regulate their emotions. Working within a therapeutic framework, you will develop a direct programme of work aimed at developing authentic relationships with our children and young people (aged between 12 and17 years old), you will also have responsibility for making sure our those in our care are safe, providing support, liaison with other external professionals and completion of support documents to record information.
If applying for the Waking Night role, you will have the additional support of an on-call manager should there be any emergencies. Further to this, you will be involved in monthly team meetings and receive monthly one-to-one supervision with your manager.
Applicants should have
1. Minimum of 1 year of experience working and supporting Young People in residential, semi-independent, Fostering settings or Youth work centres, caring for Children and Young People with emotional behavioural difficulties, neurodivergent or SEND, etc.
2. Willingness to achieve the Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare within 2 years as per Children’s Homes Regulations 2015 (England)
3. Genuine commitment to working with and supporting children and Young People to achieve their full potential; with the ability to build and promote trusted relationships while maintaining professional boundaries.
4. An understanding of the issues facing children and Young People and a basic understanding of safeguarding Regulations and Procedures.
5. The ability to cope effectively with challenging behaviour.
6. Good communication and team working skills.
7. Flexibility to work shifts, including weekends and bank holidays, and if applicable, sleep-in’s.
8. Commitment to undertake any mandatory training (outside of working hours) and continuous learning to ensure a high level of service.
9. Creativity, enthusiasm and energy to inspire and encourage young people to achieve their goals.
What you should expect from us
10. Competitive salary with potential to rise based on performance.
11. 4 weeks full induction and training program (paid).
12. Fantastic opportunities to develop your career within our range of services, Tailored career development plan through our “St Christopher’s Academy”.
13. Industry leading training programme including access to level 3 qualifications, children’s right and participation, CSE, empowerment, mental health and social pedagogy.
14. 25 days holiday rising to 27 days after 3 years’ service, plus Bank Holidays, pro-rata.
15. Contributory pension scheme, enhanced maternity and company sick scheme.
16. UK Life Assurance (Death in service) to the value of 3 times your annual salary.
17. BUPA employee assistance programme, offering counselling, financial advice and legal support.
18. Cycle to work scheme.
19. Bluelight card; discount shopping scheme at hundreds of retailers across the UK both in store and online.
20. Discretionary funded training programs for you to explore and attain new and relevant skills.
21. Employee awards based on performance and length of service.