Senior Support Worker - Children

My client is looking for a Senior Support Worker to work within a team, to provide a safe and secure home for young people aged between 10 and 18. Promoting a caring environment that provides children and young people with a high standard of specialised personal care, meeting individual needs and ensuring everyone is treated with respect and dignity and rights to privacy,  independence and choice are met. 

This role will be responsible for being a shift leader and a key worker to one young person placed at the home. Therefore, you will be a role model to both young people and staff, which requires a good work ethic,  integrity, openness, and an ability to set firm boundaries with a caring approach.

Hours of work:

40 hours per week, shift patterns including evenings and weekends,  shifts patterns as follows:  

(a) 07:30-15:00 (Early); 

(b) 14:00-23:00 (Late); 

(c) 07:30-23:00 (Long Day); 

(d) 23:00-07:30 (Sleep In);

You will need to become a key worker for a child understanding that child's particular needs and as key worker to coordinate and organise the service to meet those needs.