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Senior Residential Support Worker
Job Posted: 34 minutes ago
Salary: £ 35,616 - 37,632 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Accrington, Lancashire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Job Title: Senior Residential Support Worker
Location: Accrington
Salary: £35,616 - £37,632 per annum. Based on 10 shifts (including sleeps) per month with the opportunity to enhance your pay from £42,739.20 - £45,158.40 per annum working 12 shifts (including sleeps) per month.
We are expanding so join us on our exciting journey:
At Prosperity Children’s Service we provide care for vulnerable children and young people across the Lancashire and Greater Manchester area. Our children and young people receive support from a small team of incredible Registered Managers and Support Workers who strive to engage, motivate, and instill confidence and life skills aiming for the best possible outcomes for them.
Your key responsibilities as Senior Residential Support Worker:
We pride ourselves on our sector-leading provision and our commitment to achieving the best possible outcomes for the children and young people we look after. As such, we seek the highest calibre Senior Residential Support Workers to work in our beautiful homes, who truly have a passion for helping children and young people to reach their full potential.
As the Senior Residential Support Worker, you will mentor, support and coach new team members and draw upon your experience to manage any challenges that may arise; no two days are the same. For our children you will provide emotional support, establish strong relationships, boundaries, and routines, and create a warm and nurturing home environment. You will promote each child and young person’s needs, champion them, and support them to fulfil their potential. Whether this means getting involved in cooking, sports, outdoor adventures, music, or even getting a manicure, you will engage the children, open them up to new experiences and nurture their self-esteem and confidence.
We will train and develop you so you can deliver our therapeutic model to support and care for our children in the best way possible.
Prosperity Children’s Services is committed to the safeguarding and promotion of the welfare of all children and young people in our care. All staff have a key role and responsibility in this area.
The Successful candidates will have:
* A good understanding of the Children’s Home Regulations and Quality standards.
* A good understanding of the Ofsted process and good knowledge of all current Children’s Legislation.
* Some knowledge around the needs of children and young people with EBD/SEMH/CSE and the support services required to ensure their needs are fully met.
* Strong communication skills with an ability to lead on shift.
* Good character and integrity with resilience that matches the demands of this challenging role.
Essential Requirements:
* Level 3/4 Diploma or equivalent in Children and Young People’s Workforce
* Full UK Driving Licence
* Flexibility to work on a rota basis including sleep ins.
* At least 2 years’ experience in the Residential Children's Services sector or have worked in a similar setting working with children with challenging behaviour.
* At least 1 years’ experience of leading shifts in a children’s residential setting.
* You must undertake our Crisis prevention institute training. This training provides you with fundamental knowledge around understanding trauma, de-escalation techniques, communication skills and safety interventions, inclusive of restrictive holds.
Our Staff Benefits include:
* Ongoing Training and Development
* Paid Induction
* Refer a friend scheme
* Working in beautiful high quality homes
* Access to use company vehicles whilst on shift
* Free food at work
* Generous house budgets that fund staff for leisure activities
* Free access to face-to-face Staff Counselling service
* Company pension scheme
* On-site parking
* Double time for Bank holidays
* Additional payments for on-call duties completed.
* Christmas bonus
* Enhance DBS paid for by the company
* Great work- life balance with our condensed working rota and sleep-ins.
* Lots of opportunities to progress as the business has exciting growth plans over the next few years.
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