Senior Support Worker

Positions Available: 

2x Senior Support Workers

2x Support Workers 

2x bank

Rota - TWO shifts on (7am-11pm + Sleep x 2) FOUR days off! ROLLING ROTA 40hrs per week contract! 

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £11.50-£13.00 per hour

Pay Bands:

£11.50ph (Support Worker – non-qualified) (£23,920pa)

£12.00ph (Support Worker - Experienced & Qualified) (£24,960pa)

£12.50ph - £13.00ph (Senior Support Worker - Experienced & Qualified) (£26,000pa - £27,040pa)

+ £50 additional sleep-in allowance for all staff (approx. 10 sleeps per month-£6,000pa)

Senior Support Worker - Requirements:

Diploma or NVQ Level 3/4 qualified in children and young people (essential)

Experience working with children in a residential environment / transferable skills (essential)

Full UK Driving licence (essential)

Age 21+ Years (essential)

Understanding of attachment and trauma informed care / practice 

Commitment to personal and professional development 

Experience working with young people within a residential environment 

*Experience of working with young people with complex needs including emotional and behavioural challenges*

*Ethical and passionate company that focuses on children and young people*

DBS / Online - All staff undergo safer recruitment checks (DBS, References etc)

Senior Support Worker  - Duties and Responsibilities: Provide care for young people through:

• Attending to practical matters in relation to childcare and running a home (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 ways of dealing with problems
• Helping young people gain self control by challenging unacceptable behaviour and rewarding them when they should have recognition.
• Ensuring that each young person’s care plan is followed and updated as appropriate to reflect their changing needs.

Provide support to the management team through:

• Supervision of staffing
• Shift Leading
• Day to Day responsibility for shifts/team
• Rota planning
• Liaising with professional
• Writing plans and ensuring relevant paperwork is completed and up to date.
• Admissions and Discharges
• Deputising in the Managers Absence
• Out of Ours on Call – Rota basis

To act as a key worker/mentor through:

• Taking responsibility for a small number of young people and ensuring that their needs are fully met.

• Establishing relationships which young people perceive to be positive, warm, and rewarding.

• Providing advice, assistance, and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties.

• Providing emotional support at times of difficulty or stress

• Being ambitious for young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential.

• Providing support for young people in their education and extra curricular activities

• Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed

• Empowering young people and facilitating their active involvement in the decision making about their lives and future

• Acting as an advocate at meetings where the young person is the subject of discussion.

• Encouraging the young person to develop links with the community, attend activities and expand their personal social network.

To work as part of a team through:

• Being aware of the aims and objectives of the home and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them.

• Being a Leader and mentoring staff

• Attending/Leading staff meetings and making a positive contribution to them

• Actively contributing to the development of the team

• Receiving and storing information to improve communication.

• Being willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers.

• Being aware of childcare plans for all young people and providing support for colleagues by maintaining consistency in the execution of those plans

• Providing informal practical and emotional support to colleagues experiencing difficulties

• Attending and contributing to regular supervision sessions

• Safeguarding of Children and colleagues and referring on any causes for concern (Whistleblowing)

• Being familiar with all policies and procedures and adhering to them

• Supervision of Staffing- formal and informal

Senior Support Worker - General:

• Attending young people’s meetings and contributing to them

• Driving company vehicles (current driving licence holders subject to procedures)

• Receiving training appropriate to role and maintaining an up-to-date training profile

• Responsibility for the accurate maintenance of financial records appropriate to the duties of the post

• Responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the homes Health and Safety Policies

• To carry out all other reasonable tasks as directed by Management.