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Responsibilities
* Providing day-to-day trauma informed support set out in the child’s care plan, to meet the child’s day-to-day needs, promoting their safety and well-being and protecting them from harm including the cooking of meals, supporting the child/young person to keep their bedroom clean and tidy and ensuring that the home in which the young person lives in is clean.
* Promoting healthy lifestyle choices through structure and routine that would be expected within a family home.
* Supporting the child’s engagement with education/training/employment.
* Promoting good relationships with neighbours and the wider community.
* Facilitating engagement with broader support services and health appointments (where these are specified within the child’s care plan).
* Facilitating access to the community, cultural and leisure activities in line with the child’s interests and aspirations.
* Transporting as and when necessary and having the relevant business use insurance.
* Promoting Family Time contact for children looked after with birth family members where this is specified within the child’s care plan.
* Ensuring that the child’s views about their care, support, and accommodation (where applicable) are listened to and acted upon where appropriate.
* Adhering to the Philomena protocol if the child goes missing, including searching for the young person, trying to contact the young person and known associates where possible; if the young person cannot be located within the agreed allocated period, report this to Social Worker/Duty Worker or EDT during out of hours.
* Supporting move on plans and assist with the child’s transition.
* Maintaining a daily logbook/incident book and sharing this with colleagues during staff handover points, shared through an agreed secure method.
* Notifying package managers of all incidents of self-harm, running/missing, substance misuse, damage to property and violent/abusive behaviour in addition to any other significant risks identified by the support workers immediately through the EDT (out of hours).
* Adhering to all organisational policies relating to Safeguarding, Health and Safety, General Data Protection Regulations.
* Shifts are 12 hours based on both dayshift and nightshift with flexible work allowing you to pick up your own shifts to suit your lifestyle.
* We offer a zero contract, weekly pay and holiday pay on all hours worked.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Temporary
Job function
* Other
Industries
* Individual and Family Services
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North Shields, England, United Kingdom
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