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Eden Brown Synergy is recruiting for Children's Residential Support Workers for a home that accommodate young people with social, emotional and mental health needs.
The successful individual would take care of the young people day to day, making sure things run smoothly and creating lasting memories. This involves making sure they are up and ready for school, helping with homework, completing paperwork and planning activities.
Hours: required to work 40 hours per week on a flexible rota, and able to cope with flexible working your, hours and be available for sleep-in duties if required.
Requirements:
- 2 Years + Experience of working with children and young people, in a residential care for children's home setting
- A Relevant Qualification: Completed, working towards or willing to undertake Level 3 Diploma for the Children & Young People's Workforce
- Ability to provide counselling to individual young people
- Clean UK driving licence and ability to drive with young passengers
- Ability to build positive relationships with children and young people
- Ability to maintain professional standards at all times
- Ability to support young peoples in their daily routines in a variety of settings
- Ability to organise and lead recreational activities
- Ability to form positive working relationships with parents and outside agencies
- Ability to become an integral part of a team
- Good communication skills
- High level of resilience
Responsibilities:
The purpose of the role is to primarily to:
- Play a role in the establishment, maintenance and development of the environment and climate of the Home, thus providing young people with a calm and relaxed group living experience conducive to emotional security and personal happiness and growth.
- To be actively involved in planning and participating in the homes recreational and social programme and engage individuals and groups in constructive, enterprising, and socially extending range of leisure pursuits.
- To establish good relationships with young people based on confidence, trust, understanding and mutual respect, setting a good example to all staff.
- To encourage young people to maintain socially acceptable standards of behaviour as described in the Staff Handbook and other guidelines for staff.
- To provide all young people with guidance and counselling of a personal and social nature.
- To take a share of responsibility for the safe supervision of young people by exercising adequate control.
- To be responsible as Key worker for young people undertaking casework, report writing and initiating and implementing individual care plans
- To monitor objectively the quality of relationships between young people, between staff and young people and between staff with the constant aim of improvement.
- To ensure that full and complete casework records of young people progress are maintained in respect of young people for whom you are Key Worker.
- To perform any other reasonable task that the Registered Manager or his/her appointed deputy may ask from time to time.
- To act as driver and/or escort transporting young people to and from school, on shopping trips and activities.
- To perform sleeping-in duties as required.
Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.
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