Role: Children's Support Worker (Orchard Court)
Location: Mirfield, WF14 0DQ
Salary: £12.31/hr
Hours: Part-time 30hrs (include alternate weekends)
Hollybank Trust, founded in 1954 has achieved a reputation of attaining very high care standards, working with children, young people and adults who have profound and multiple learning disabilities and complex needs.
Orchard Court is one of our dedicated children's residential services in Mirfield. It boasts seven accessible, en-suite rooms, all of which are wheelchair adapted and fitted with tracking hoists. It's a happy home and there's always lots going on - you'll usually find cake on offer too!
In addition to the children that reside with us on a permanent basis, the service also offers a respite provision for families. We are looking for some amazing people to join our team in Orchard Court to help us continue to provide high-quality, person-centred care to the children we support.
Please make it clear on your application how many hours you are applying for. Applications that do not include this detail may not be processed.
What we look for from our staff:
* Confidence - being self-assured, asking for help when you need it and challenging behaviour or practices that you feel are inappropriate or unsafe.
* Curiosity - being inquisitive and welcoming change, asking questions about the way that we do things and why, and putting yourself forward to try new things.
* Happiness - being cheerful and positive, bringing your best self to work and sharing your enthusiasm for life with the people we are here to support.
* Kindness - being caring and compassionate, reaching out to your colleagues if they look like they're struggling, being an active member of the team and working together to achieve shared goals.
What we offer:
* A competitive salary and great pension scheme.
* An employee rewards scheme with retail discounts and more.
* A comprehensive employee assistance program, including support for mental health, a company sick pay scheme, and a life insurance benefit.
* A fantastic, open, and supportive working environment.
* Training & Development opportunities to support your development.
* A wealth of opportunities to gain experience in a variety of skills.
Main Responsibilities:
Role Specific
Development of autonomy
To work within key worker groups establish and maintain relationships with children and young people which will complement and contribute to their care programmes and create a pleasant, happy and safe living environment.
Ensuring effective communication with all parts of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure continuity and quality of care.
Communication
To communicate and offer choice and independence to the children and young people throughout all aspects of care whilst fully adhering to the Mental Capacity Act where necessary. Use appropriate interactions for both verbal and non-verbal communicating children and young people, enabling these people to utilise their maximum abilities to make personal choices on their everyday lives.
Nutritional Needs
To support children and young people to meet dietary requirements by utilising the appropriate feeding method, monitoring and encouraging food and fluid intake, giving the individual choice, independence and monitoring and communicating any concerns.
To prepare food for the children and young people following basic hygiene guidelines, ensuring the children and young people are involved and given as much independence and choice as possible.
Personal Care
To assist children and young people with all areas of personal hygiene, including continence management, bathing and dressing whilst following the Care Plan at all times. Ensuring that the highest levels of comfort, privacy and dignity are maintained for the individual.
To maintain a code of cleanliness and sanitation as outlined by the Trust infection control procedures
Medication
To administer medication following the Trust Policies and Procedures.
Manual Handling
To implement correct lifting and handling techniques in order to ensure the safety and comfort of children and young people, whilst ensuring that Trust guidelines are adhered to and correct equipment is used where appropriate.
Postural Management
To follow physiotherapy postural guidelines in order to prevent deterioration and to maintain each individual's physical condition.
Environment and Property
To ensure that the physical environment is safe and tidy, so that children and young people are comfortable and their property is secure in their own homes. Includes ensuring that all bedrooms and communal areas are clean and tidy and any maintenance issues are reported accordingly.
Social, Leisure and Community experience
To accompany and support children and young people to access social activities and leisure activities in order to improve social interaction skills and develop links with the community and to ensure individuals get the utmost enjoyment and development from the experience.
Documentation
To accurately document all necessary tasks on the required documentation (Kardex, Care Plans, MAR Sheets) in a timely manner, including further communications with other members of the team where necessary on essential aspects.
To monitor changes within the Care Plans to ensure consistent and high quality of care.
General
Best Practice
To maintain an awareness and keep updated with the latest initiatives and thinking, sharing new ideas with colleagues in order to improve organisation performance.
People Development
To participate in supervisions, PDRs and continuous training and development, and to seek ways of continually achieving self-development and career enhancement; to support the future skills requirements of the Trust. To ensure training needs are regularly identified and assessed and action is taken to develop skills including PDR's completed in a timely manner.
Attitude
To act as a professional and positive ambassador for Hollybank in order to support the Trust's mission and profile.
Policy promotion
To actively promote the Trust's Equal Opportunities, Health and Safety, Disability Awareness and Data Protection policies and all other existing policies. To ensure that the Trust operates effectively, fairly, and in line with legislative requirements at all times.
Risk Management
To assist the Head of Department in the process of developing risk management strategies in order to safeguard the interests of the Trust.
Safeguarding
To adhere to and follow the Trust's Safeguarding procedures in order to protect the safety of all young people
Confidentiality
In line with the Data Protection Act you will see the use and safe sharing of information as part of their responsibility. You will ensure you work in line with our data protection and information governance policies and procedures protecting and respecting the privacy of our children, young people and adults.
Flexibility
To carry out such other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time to meet the evolving needs of the organisation.
Competency Behaviours & Attitude
Personal Effectiveness
To deliver high-quality services that make a real difference to the service users you work with, and take personal responsibility for the health, safety and wellbeing of others.
Working Together
To work in a collaborative way, developing and maintaining positive relationships and treating people with empathy and respect.
Positive Attitude
To support and encourage positive changes and new ideas by working with our service users to meet their needs and by embracing new ways of working to enhance what we do.
Developing Self and Others
To be effective at developing yourself and others and communicate well.
General Attitude
To act as a professional and positive ambassador for Hollybank Trust in order to support the Trust's mission and profile.
To find out more, please contact recruitment@hollybanktrust.com or 01924 490833
Hollybank Trust is committed to Safeguarding vulnerable people, and our Safer Recruitment process requires all employees to have an Enhanced DBS check and reference checks in line with our Recruitment policy. If the candidate does not have a DBS, Hollybank will pay for the DBS check. If the candidate leaves voluntarily in their first 12 months, £58.50 will be deducted from their final salary payment.
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Unfortunately we are not able to offer sponsorship to work in the UK, and we do ask that you have 6 months of UK based work experience (in any sector) before applying.
We want people from underrepresented groups such as Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bi and Trans (LGBTQIA+) communities to succeed at Hollybank Trust and our policies and procedures ensure that this can happen. Click here to find out more about our approach to equality and diversity.
Hollybank Trust is a Disability Confident employer. We are actively working to recruit and retain people with disabilities and long-term health conditions into our work force. If you are an applicant who has a disability, you will be offered an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the job.
Due to Ofsted Regulations we cannot accept CVs for this role. You must complete a full application form to be considered for a role in our Children's Services or School.