Job Title: Residential Support Worker
Location: Wigan
Salary: Competitive, dependent on qualification/experience (£13.00 - £14.00 per hour, sleep allowance rate of £75.70 per sleep shift)
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent, 160hr contract per month
About Us
My3 Ltd. is a specialist residential care provider based in the Northwest of England dedicated to supporting children and young people with Autism, Learning Disabilities and Developmental Disorders including Physical Disabilities.
We are seeking enthusiastic individuals to join our team as Residential Support Workers in the Wigan area. This role involves providing essential care and support to children and young people, requiring compassion, patience, and a commitment to making a positive impact on their lives.
If you’re looking for an organisation that prioritises achieving the best outcomes for young people, values and respects its employees, offers career progression, and rewards dedication—then this is the role for you!
Job Description
As a Children's Residential Support Worker, you will work directly with the children and young people, with appropriate support, guidance and under the supervision of the senior leadership team.
Your role is to support young people in their day-to-day routines which include providing emotional support, promote learning and supporting attendance at education, support with homework, participation in home's activities and attendance and participation in community-based interests (e.g. attending clubs), work with young people to develop interests and improve life skills, promote self-sufficiency and build resilience.
You will help to facilitate and support family relationships, where it is appropriate to do so, helping our young people to maintain a support network around them.
You will be expected to be a good role model; embrace rights, encourage healthy lifestyles, to support young people in having all their health needs met, promote wellbeing, help young people develop safe decision making and work in a manner that ensures they are safe.
All staff need to be good communicators, in the written and verbal form, and be IT competent; all staff receive appropriate training to ensure such tasks can be completed to the required standard.
We assess potential My 3 Limited Residential Support Workers against the following criteria:
Experience – Looking for a candidate with a valid driver’s license and having at least one year experience working in a children’s home supporting CWD.
Qualifications - Level 3/4 desirable but not essential (training to achieve the necessary professional qualifications will be provided to successful candidates)
Skills - resilience, good humour, empathy, stamina, and a good understanding of children, including but not required and understanding of young people with autism, learning disabilities and associated conditions.
Personality - approachable, good listener, honest, trustworthy, reliable and fun to be with. Must have the ability to establish professional relationships with children, to develop trust, to understand and recognise boundaries but know also how to relate to children and how to play.
All the above personality traits are essential.
Additional requirements:
Ability to undertake sleep in duty where required
Good communicator/good listener
Be both physically and emotionally fit
Be flexible in response to changing needs within the service.
Be a Driver and hold a clean licence
This role requires an Enhanced DBS Check
Additional pay:
Benefits:
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Shift pattern 8am – 11pm sleep and 7am – 11pm, two shifts on 4 shifts off
- Holidays
- Overtime
Education:
- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:
- Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location
· In person
How to Apply
If you have a passion for working with children and young people with additional needs, we’d love to hear from you! Please submit your CV and a covering letter to [email protected] or via Indeed.
Please note that we are not offering sponsorship at this time, so applications will only be considered from candidates who already have the right to work in the UK.
Pay: £13.00-£14.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Work Location: In person
