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SalaryResidential Support Worker
About Supporting futures
Supporting Futures has a long history in child protection – and our years of experience have shown us that high quality therapeutic childcare helps children and young people learn to deal with their past experiences and prepare for the future.
Children first: Vulnerable children and young people who have experienced trauma through significant abuse deserve the very best help to put their lives back on track.
At Supporting Futures, we are committed to providing the quality of care that will accomplish this. Residential Care is Children and Young People up to 18 years old, and our focus is centered on the needs of the child.
Meeting the challenge: Challenging behaviors are often the result of significant abuse and negative earlier experiences. But no matter how difficult the behavior, we don’t give up.
Keeping it positive: All our children and young people are respected with a positive regard—we support and help them build safe and appropriate attachments and relationships with others.
It’s the individual: An all-embracing therapeutic model meets the needs of each child in all aspects of their life. Skilled care supported by therapists, clinical psychologists, health and education professionals help us support our young people to deal with their past experiences and prepare for the future.
They are encouraged to become involved with local communities and learn how to make life choices that help them fulfill their potential.
Making it happen: Successful outcomes depend absolutely on the quality of our people. We demand a high level of commitment from our team of course—with an emphasis on experience, qualifications and training to guide their professional development.
Short term, long term: We take children either on a same-day placement, or a planned longer term basis.
Your role and our service
The welfare of our young people is paramount in the role of a Residential Care Worker. Not only do Residential Care Worker’s keep our young people safe, but as the daily care provider they also make a fundamental contribution to their care, learning and development. A key figure within the team, you’ll build invaluable bridges between Supporting Futures and the local community, promoting social inclusion as you support people with emotional and behavioral difficulties to reach their full potential.
Residential Care Worker’s advocate pro-actively for each young person’s needs, rights and views and ensure that these are met. They also make certain that each young person’s individuality, difference and diversity are always appreciated and that our young people are provided with equal opportunities and are not discriminated against.
Residential Care Worker’s encourage each young person to be involved in all aspects of their care. This will involve skill development, problem solving and assessment of risk, while being mindful of their individual capabilities.
Through a consistent approach to care our young people acquire self-esteem and resilience, as well as self-knowledge and improved general well-being. Residential Care Worker’s also work with each young person’s parents and families, as appropriate, recognizing that they are the young person’s first and most enduring carers and that our role is as a partner in each young person’s care.
To keep our young people safe it is imperative that all information about our young people is always kept appropriately confidential.
As an organisation we value learning and we encourage staff to help us continually seek new ways to improve our service. Residential Care Worker’s support, and are supported by, the team in each home and they report to their nominated home manager.
Principal Responsibilities Your contribution:
§ Your most significant contribution is that of a professional parent, nurturing and caring for the young people looked after by Supporting Futures
· Ensuring that young people receiving appropriate health care and treatment and to act as an effective advocate to ensure that children receive the health and educational services that they may require.
· To plan, identify and, where appropriate and possible, provide topical and specific training opportunities for staff including on meeting children’s health and educational needs.
· Your role will involve providing a link role for a young person. This may include being the first point of contact (along with the senior or manager) for the young persons’ social worker, assisting in writing reports on the young person’s progress, developing in-house placement plans, and contributing to statutory review reports.
· You will work in partnership with parents and families, and other professional service providers and develop a network of contacts and forge links with community groups
§ You will need to be flexible in your approach to work, as on occasions you may be called upon to cover a shift due to a colleague’s absence. Such flexibility and team work allows children and young people to receive consistent care from recognized carers.
§ Provision of parental care requires being available. To care for young people means that you will be required to sleep-in as part of a shift. Consistency in care enables children and young people to feel safe and secure.
§ You will also need you to be flexible to work in any of our homes in the region on either a temporary basis or permanent basis as identified by your Manager, and ensuring continuity of quality care across all homes.
Teamwork and Caring for Our Young People
§ You will work with the team to promote and support the young people in our care, in leading a life of positive development by providing a safe and nurturing environment.
§ A vital part of your role will be providing the young people with emotional and social support, helping them to develop meaningful relationships with other children and adults, as well as encouraging them to become involved with local communities.
§ You and the team will encourage and enable each young person’s self-esteem to be raised in a positive manner and ensure that they are respected and valued.
§ You will with the team to encourage, support and enable each young person to make positive life choices and achievable levels of independence that help them develop to their full potential, and receive the essential care and attention.
§ You and the team are responsible for a high level of recording. Great emphasis and importance is attached to the recording of events and observations which will include young people’s daily and monthly progress, updating of children’s files, child protection records, notification to appropriate people and health and safety checks.
§ You and the team will be continually assessing the children and young peoples’ needs. Under the direction of your manager, and other appropriate personnel, you will be responsible for the formulation, implementation and review of care plans.
§ You will work closely with your manager, your team, the health advisor, social workers, therapists, teachers and other professionals. You may also be involved with the young people’s families, especially when supervising contacts.
§ You will need to encourage and support the young people with all of their daily living needs in line with their individual care plan.
§ You will also need to carry out domestic duties within the home and garden, involving the children and young people where appropriate and plan, shop and prepare meals, ensuring they have a varied and well balanced diet.
Professional Development:
§ We value our staff and their commitment to caring for children and young people. Consequently, we work closely with all staff to identify their individual training needs and provide a supported programme to encourage professional development
§ For the first three months you will be closely supervised and supported to work through an industry standard induction programme, the foundation for your probation period.
§ As part of our on-going professional development programme, your manager will meet with you on a monthly basis to assist with training matters and any issues that arise from caring for young people.
§ To maintain your skills and knowledge in childcare, it is vital that you attend training as identified with your manager and in line Company Policy.
§ At times you will need to manage the challenging behaviors displayed by our young people. Training and support is given on how to effectively manage a broad range of behaviors. You will learn how to utilize diffusion or distraction techniques and if these have not dissipated the challenging behaviors, as a very last resort a young person may need to be physically held.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £11.50-£11.75 per hour
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
Supplemental pay types:
- Bonus scheme
- Loyalty bonus
- Performance bonus
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 30/04/2024
Expected start date: 01/06/2024
