Children’s Residential Support Worker

<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Out Client has an exciting opportunity for a Residential Support Worker to join a fantastic home for children and young people aged 11 – 17 with backgrounds of trauma and emotional behavioural difficulties in Northamptonshire. You will be working for an incredible local Children’s Homes provider who works across the East Midlands area.</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Your key responsibilities as the Residential Support Worker:</strong></span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Provide a high standard of care and support to vulnerable young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties and/or self-esteem issues to maximise individual potential.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrate positive attitudes, patience, understanding, and respect when caring for children and young people.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Maintain a flexible, caring, and sensitive approach to service delivery, respecting cultural, religious, and sexual diversity.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Work in a professional manner and develop strong working relationships with children, young people, and external agencies.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Create positive relationships with children, meeting their needs and safeguarding them at all times.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop timetables, set boundaries, and establish clear expectations for young people.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ensure consistency and demonstrate strong organisational skills in all aspects of care and support.</span></li> </ul> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Benefits:</strong></span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Comprehensive training</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A funded QCF qualification</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Employment assistance programme, i.e. access to counselling and support</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">A career pathway for progression</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Additional pay for sleep-ins’</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Generous Annual entitlement</span></li> </ul> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Essential Requirement:</strong></span></p> <ul style="text-align: justify;"> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hold a Level 3 or 4 in Residential Childcare or be working towards this</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Good knowledge around Children’s Homes regulations (2015), Children’s Homes Regulations including the quality standards</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ideally hold at least 1 years’ experience within a children’s residential homes</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hold a Full UK driving licence&nbsp;</span></li> </ul> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Reasonable Adjustments:</strong></span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.</span></p> <p class="x_MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">BH - 196121</span><br><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">GH - 33945</span></p>