Details:
- Salary: £28,028 - 29,120 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: Garstang Lancashire
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
Children's Residential Support Worker
Pilling
£28,028 - £29,120 inc 2 sleeps / week
Full time, Permanent
Therapeutic Care
Our client provides high quality specialist services for children who have experienced sexual trauma and/or abuse. They currently have teams in over 19 residential homes across the Northwest, Shropshire, Wales, and Yorkshire, operating from a Head Office in Cheadle, Greater Manchester.
The Role
Can you be the difference in a child's life
We want those who can provide advice, assistance, and support to young people, safeguarding their welfare at all times. To attend to their practical, physical, and emotional needs. To act as an appropriate role model and to work closely with them to enable them to address their difficulties and achieve their optimum potential.
You would also work with the Clinical Team to promote, deliver and create a Therapeutic Environment.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Provide care for young people through:
Attending to practical matters in relation to childcare (cooking, cleaning etc)
Establishing positive relationships with young people and always offering them unconditional and positive regard
Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural, cultural, and educational needs of young people
Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate pro-social ways of dealing with problems
Helping young people gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behaviour and rewarding acceptable, pro-social conduct.
Ensuring that each young person's care plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needsThe Ideal Candidate will have:
Basic knowledge of Quality Standards, Regulation and Industry
Awareness of Equal Opportunities/ADP issues
Team Building Skills
Ability to work within teams effectively
Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing
Excellent organisational skills
Ability to motivate and enthuse Others
Caring and passionate nature
A want to learn and growDesirable but not essential:
Current driving licence
Diploma Level 3 Children and Young People Workforce or NVQ equivalent Counselling Skills
Training Skills
Drugs Awareness Training
Therapeutic Parenting ExperienceBenefits
An attendance bonus of £100 every 3 months
Paid for therapeutic qualifications for all colleagues to support development
Support with career progression
Simply health cash back scheme
Pension Scheme
Flexible schedule
Onsite parkingRandstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing