Role: Children’s Residential Support Worker Bank
Location: Rotherham (S60)
Salary details: £13.50 per hour
Plus: £65.00 per sleep-in
*Please Note - A valid drivers licence is required for this role.
Hours: The post provides the opportunity to work on a casual basis picking up shifts including those with sleep ins as and when they become available.
The post holder will provide high quality care and interventions to children and young people in a residential children’s homes, which will contribute to the protection, safeguarding and promotion of the education, health and well-being of children and young people.
Our Ideal Candidate will have:
- Experience of working with children through employment or a volunteering role
- Have a keen interest in providing care and support to children and young people
- Be inspirational, resilient, persistent and child focused with the care and support they provide.
- Be able to adopt a parenting role- providing consistent care that is unconditional. Be persistence and consistently show up despite push back.
- Always have high aspirations and be able to go above and beyond for our children and young people and are non-judgmental.
- Have a full UK driving Licence
- Be able to work on a Rota.
Staff Benefits:
- Full induction and training programme to ensure you have the skills and knowledge to build a new career
- Employee Assistance Programme
- NEST Pension Scheme
- Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check paid for by us
- We are an ambitious company with plans to develop more homes in the future and hope to be able to offer new roles including management positions to our staff team.
To apply:
Please upload your CV and a Cover Letter outlining how you meet the person specification. You can upload your cover letter as a separate document or add it to your CV. Please note that without the cover letter outlining how you meet the person specification your application will not be accepted.
If you have any questions about the role, please email [email protected]
Person Specification:
- Excellent verbal, written and communication skills. IT skills necessary to undertake all administrative and reporting requirements. Including using a range of computer applications and ICT including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentation software, internet and e-mail. - Essential
- Have a good understanding of child protection, safeguarding and vulnerable adults issues- Essential
- Practical knowledge of health and safety issues- Essential
- Able to positively engage with children and young people-Essential
- Understand and be able to apply a trauma informed approach to all your work with the children and young people. -Essential
- Knowledge of law and practice relating to looked after children and legal status applied to children with the Children’s Act- Essential
- Experience in maintaining and creating good written electronic records of work. Demonstrate evidencing outcomes achieved with children and young people- Essential
- Experience of understanding the needs of children with a range of sensitive and personal care issues i.e. mental health problems, dementia, depression, challenging behaviours etc.- Essential
- Experience in managing difficult and challenging behaviours- Essential
- Experience of working and engaging as part of a team.- Essential
- Experience of working in partnership with other agencies, children and young people and parents/ carers.- Essential
- A strong and demonstrable commitment to promoting equality and diversity in all work undertaken.- Essential
- Experience of care planning and risk management issues. Be able to create support and risk management plans.- Desirable
- Level 3 Diploma for the Children’s and Young People’s Workforce or similar Level 3 qualification e.g. AS and A levels, NVQs Level 3, Applied A Levels, BTEC First Certificates and Diplomas, City and Guilds Advanced, or NQF Level 4 Certificates of Higher Education Or Evidence of the equivalent level of knowledge gained through work experience.-Desirable
- Has a valid full UK manual driving license.- Essential
- Be willing to complete a Level 3 Diploma for the Children’s and Young People’s Workforce-Essential
Job Specific Notes
- This post involves working with children/ adults and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. (Exempt from Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, 1974. All ‘spent’ convictions to be declared.). Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check
Pay: £13.50 per hour
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Employee discount
Application question(s):
- Do you have a Level 3 Diploma in Children's and Young People Workforce (we are looking for applicants with this specific qualification)
- Do you have a valid full UK driving license (we will prioritise applicants with a full-licence)
Work Location: In person
