Children'S Residential Support Worker

Belmont Recruitment are currently looking for an experienced Children’s Residential Support Worker to join a busy Children’s Home in Bradford on a temporary basis. This role is initially for 3 months with potential extension.

Duties:

• To provide inspirational care, tailored to the individual needs of the children and young people. Through support, encouragement and our ‘Model of Care’, create a stable and secure base, where young people have a sense of belonging, where they can begin to understand, address and work through their past experiences and present difficulties and behaviours and be able to prepare for, and achieve their full potential in their futures.
• Be physically fit enough to carry out ALL requirements of the post including the use of the physical interventions as part of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) to manage challenging behaviour as required.
• To ensure that all children and young people’s files are kept up to-date and any remedial action is taken promptly. Ensure information held on children andyoung people is accurate, and ensure confidentiality of information in line with the Data Protection Act when obtaining, transmitting and recording information verbally, in writing and electronically.
• Residential Practitioners and Family support respite workers are expected to work directly with the young person using theoretical approaches and models of working to enable them to understand their past to manage their feelings frustrations and behaviours and to enable them to make positive life choices. Children with complex health needs and disabilities will have sensory and communication profiles to assist choices and decision making.To record all work and to reflect and analyse outcomes and identify future work required.
• To be prepared to work flexibly, including unsociable hours and shifts on a rota basis, including weekend and bank holiday working. You will also be required to undertake sleep in duties, again this will be on a rota and also could be at short notice.

Requirements:

• Experience of working in a Children’s Home OR in the last year, be able to demonstrate experience of working with children and young people who have emotional/behavioural/complex health needs and physical/learning disabilities either in a paid or voluntary capacity in a children’s home, social care setting, a school, youth service, or any other service or provision designed to support children and young people.
• Either Level 3 Children & Young Peoples Workforce Diploma with social care pathway, NVQ 3 caring for children & young people, NVQ 3 health & social care or qualified RSW
• Enhanced DBS
• Willingness to work a variety of hours on a rota/shift basis

If this role would be of interest, please apply with an up to date CV as soon as possible.