Children’s Residential Support Worker

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Children’s Residential Support Worker to work full time based in a Children’s home in Glossop.

The salary for this permanent Residential Support Worker job is up to £27,087.12

Main Duties:

• Support, assist, provide guidance and boundaries for looked after children and young people, in a safe and stable residential environment, on an individual and group basis
• Work collaboratively with other team members to actively safeguard, promote the welfare and advocate on behalf of children and young people to ensure that the quality of care is consistent with the Children’s Homes (England) Regulations and Quality Standards 2015, and the Home’s Statement of Purpose
• Lead by example with outstanding safeguarding practice
• Liaise with senior management and external parties such as Local Authorities, schools, health, and other professionals to achieve best outcomes for residents
• Ensure that the Home’s policies and procedures are implemented effectively and that resources are managed appropriately
• Actively promote the Home’s equal opportunity and anti-discriminatory practices
• Ensuring each young person’s care plan is implemented effectively, addressing his or her care, education, social, emotional, cultural, therapeutic and health needs
• Delivering a high standard of childcare practice and always exercising appropriate control over children and young people, maintaining the security and ethos of the Home
• Recording all significant observations and contributing to the ongoing assessment of children and young people’s needs through participation in team, childcare planning and review meetings
• Working professionally, in partnership with parents, families, carers and other professionals to advocate for, safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people
• Maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality as per the prevailing data protection legislation and Company’s policies and procedures

Requirements of this job:

• Level 3 Residential Childcare qualification or equivalent, or willingness to undertake this
• Full manual driving license
• Good standard of education
• Ability to show leadership skills
• Experience of managing budgets

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobs is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

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. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.