Senior Residential Child Care Worker

Senior Residential Children’s Support Workers

Job type: Full time

Shift Pattern: 37.5 hours per week (shift pattern)

We are looking for a Senior Residential Childcare Worker for one of our clients Residential Children’s Home.

Our client is a provider of residential children services for children and young people with behaviours that challenge, offering a homely work environment and a supportive management team with ongoing training.

As a senior residential childcare worker, you will play a full and effective role as a member of the staff team, providing high-quality assessment and residential care for young people with behaviours that challenge.

Our client is looking for a dedicated organised senior childcare worker who can lead a shift and take the initiative to work well independently as well as working well with other members of the staff team.

Senior Residential Childcare Worker Duties and Responsibilities include:

§ Plan, manage and lead shifts

§ Encourage, support and guide members of the staff team

§ Attend case reviews, planning meetings and any other meetings as required

§ Undertake specific administration tasks as directed by the Home Manager

§ Actively participate in supervision, appraisal, training, meetings & consultancies

§ Maintain records as required

§ To be alert to signs of distress or abuse and to ensure that the young people are monitored and protected, and their needs are met ensuring that all safeguarding needs are met

§ Contribute to care planning and the implementation of these plans

§ 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

Requirements for this Senior Residential Childcare Worker position are:

§ Diploma Level 3 in Residential Childcare

§ Experience of working in a senior position

§ 2 years’ experience of working within a residential childcare environment

§ Experience of working with young people with EBD and behaviours that challenge

§ Able to work on a shift pattern which includes sleep-ins

• Contact: Chris Nutt
• Reference: Totaljobs/W-SRCW-L
• Job ID: 102195290