Waking Night Residential Support worker

Buttons Recruitment are proud to be helping our Client look for Waking Night Residential Support workers in Sudbury.

*Unfortunately we are UNABLE to offer Sponsorship at this time*

What they are looking for:

- Applicants who are enthusiastic and have a desire to support children and young people who have additional needs

- If you have experience of working with children who present behavioural challenges

- To have an empathetic and understanding nature

- Be resilient and be able to manage challenging behaviour in a caring and considered manner.

Your Role:

- Work as part of the staff team to achieve the statement of purpose of the children’s home

- Monitor and maintain the safety of the home overnight

- Support in any behaviour management during the night and liaise with the on call manager as required

- play a proactive role in supporting children overnight if they require this.

- provide a clear handover to the team in the morning

Role Responsibilities:

- To ensure the care given to the young people reflects the Statement of Purpose

- To provide advice, guidance, and support to young people in maintaining the boundaries and structures in place and adhering to the organisation’s expectations

- To carry out domestic tasks to maintain reasonable levels of hygiene and maintenance and ensure that the building remains in a reasonable condition

- To attend relevant meetings

- To empower young people in positive decision making

- To role model good practice always

- To offer support in implementing the activities program in place

- To support in general administration tasks

- To support the care planning and behaviour management of children in the home

- To ensure that the events of the shift are all accurately recorded in the logbook and that incident forms and young people’s logs contain all the relevant information

- To always ensure confidentiality

- To demonstrate commitment to personal development

- To be in contact with parents, social services, or other relevant authorities as appropriate in a professional manner

- To effectively lead the night shift, managing any incidents which occur with support from the on call manager

- To be able to lone work safely and use supervision to reflect on performance

Skills

Essential

• Well-developed written and verbal communication

• Behaviour management skills and knowledge of safeguarding

• Ability to manage unexpected situations

Personal Attributes

Essential

• Enthusiastic disposition

• Committed to achieving best outcomes for children

• Flexible in achieving objectives

• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing personal development

• Proactive and solution focused

• Loyal and committed

• Resilience

If this sounds like something you would be interested in then click apply now to get your CV over to our Recruitment Team and someone will be in contact.