Children’s Residential Support Worker – up to £33,898 salary package.
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38 hours per week |
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30th November 2024 | |
QUALIFICATIOONS (IF REQUIRED) |
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SALARY |
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Up to 33,898 |
You will be working as a Support Worker in our 6 bedded Children’s residential service for short stays. You will be caring for Children between the ages of 5 – 18. The service provides care and support for individuals who have severe learning difficulties, Autism, ADHD and associated behavioural challenges, children accommodated at the home may also present with sensory impairment, physical disabilities and sexualised behaviours or equally, with complex health care needs.
You will be working Early shifts, late shifts, long days and the rota does include alternate weekends and a sleep in requirement. You will assist the management team in maintaining a safe and enabling environment that provides positive experiences to children and young people.
Duties
Provide a safe, caring and consistent home life for each young person.
To empower and enable young people to achieve their individual goals and full potential and strive towards building confidence and independence.
- To be a positive role model at all times.
- To ensure the respect and dignity of young people is maintained at all times.
- To ensure the delivery of appropriate care and support is given with sensitivity.
- To promote equality and diversity.
- To support and cooperate with the effective and efficient operation of the service.
- Ensure all health and educational needs of the young people are met.
- To encourage and develop the life skills necessary to support independence.
- To plan and undertake relevant leisure activities with young people.
- Undertake keyworker/co-keyworker responsibilities and duties where necessary.
- To adhere to all relevant policies, procedures, legislative and reporting requirements.
- To actively participate in continuing professional development.
Qualifications (If Required)
- Level 3 NVQ/Diploma in Health and Social Care (Children and Young People).
- NVQ Level 2 Diploma in Health and social Care or Equivalent
- NVQ Level 3 Diploma in Health and Social Care or Equivalent
Qualifications
Successful candidates will need to have or be willing to work towards:
- Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare or Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce (Social Care Pathway)
Experience
- Ideally you will also have experience of working with children and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities and/or physical disabilities, Autism, ADHD, sensory impairment, and associated behavioural challenges and/or complex care needs, however we will consider candidates from EBD residential settings also.
Skills/Abilities
Skills/Abilities
You have a fantastic opportunity to be a part of our team if you possess the following:
• Strong communication skills
• The ability to communicate on various levels
• Working knowledge of, following, and working to Care Plans
• Experience of Conflict Management and dealing with difficult situations
• The ability to work effectively during high pressured situations
• You will be a supportive team player
Qualities
You will also need to be
• Caring and approachable
• Patient and welcoming
• Creative, Helpful and Reliable
• Willing to learn valuable life skills
Other Requirements
Company Values
- Personal development opportunities
- Treating you as an individual
- Publicly recognising your achievements
- Supporting you any way we can
- Placing you on a comprehensive training program
- A competitive salary
Benefits
We will reward you with a starting rate of between £11.50 - £13.00 per hr (salary based on competency based qualifying criteria), plus premium rates for Sleeps at £62.55 (min 1 x per week) and regular overtime opportunities (paid between £14.00 - £15.50) to further increase earnings.
This includes a superb benefits package too, including:
- Funded DBS and renewals
- Private health cashback plan
- Online GP, scans, physio, counselling and more
- Death in service, 2x salary
- Contributory pension
- Blue light retail discount card
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Broad training and development
- Emergency days scheme
- Performance management programme and annual review to support progression
- Refer a friend reward scheme
- Annual superstar awards
- Additional annual leave days after 2 and 5 years of service
- Utilities comparison service
- Counselling line through the Care Workers Charity
Who is Progress?
We are an established provider of specialist services for children and young adults from 0-25, who have disabilities and specialist needs, including profound and multiple learning difficulties, severe learning difficulties, physical disability, sensory impairment, complex health care needs, acquired brain injury, and Autism. This encompasses a fostering agency, residential homes, supported living, a range of short break solutions, home and community support, preparation for independence and much more. As a values-led, family-owned business, we are not prepared to compromise on the quality and safety of our services, which are delivered following our owner’s ethos; ‘if it is not good enough for your own family, it is not good enough for our customers’..
We pride ourselves on enabling a more ordinary life to be experienced through extra-ordinary service delivery, with the people we support being the heart of everything we do. Everyone deserves a childhood and to move on into independence – this takes innovation every day as one size does not fit all where people are concerned!
Why work for Progress?
We asked some of our staff this question and the words they used in response included… friendly, further your career, support, extensive training, like a family, accepted, good team relationships, accommodating, flexibility, work ethic with colleagues, caring, shared passion, values aligned to your own, passion, not just a job; a career, gained skills, personal progression, support for staff; not just the people we care for, be part of a journey and the growth of the organisation, family feel, personal growth, opportunities, acknowledgement and recognition of efforts, not just a number, make a difference, feel appreciated, properly appraised annually with resulting outcomes, thorough induction, personal approach, no hierarchy, delivering on promises, high staff retention, respected as equals.
Even our temp had a positive opinion, “a great supportive team, allowing you to work flexibly with great opportunities to develop and apply your skills to assist across the business”.
We are passionate about developing our staff and their individual careers. We take pride in developing our future managers, with the capability, vision, and ability to meet the changing needs of the sector in a creative and responsive manner. We secured the Gold Investors in People Award, with 84% of staff agreeing we are ‘developing great leaders.’
We are proud of our teams; they really go the extra mile. We are also proud of our consistently high staff retention; we could not deliver the excellence we strive for, without every individual. We care deeply about delivering on our promises and feel extremely privileged to employ so many amazing people who share our vision and our determination! What more could we want!
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