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Job Title – Residential Support Worker (MUST BE QUALIFIED LEVEL 3)
Location – Newcastle under Lyme Staffordshire
Work Pattern – Full time
Hours of work: 173 hours per month (including sleep ins, bank holidays, weekends).
Reports to: Registered Manager (Assistant if Manager not available).
Salary - £31,852.80 – £32,082.61
Job Purpose:
We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated qulaified Residential Support worker to work at our home in Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire.
The ideal candidate will play a vital role in assisting individuals with varying needs, ensuring they receive the care and support necessary to enhance their quality of life. This position requires strong communication skills, a passion for helping others, and the ability to work collaboratively with both clients and team members. To promote the welfare, safety, personal development and well-being of young people being cared for by Vitality Care Residential.
· To ensure that the physical, emotional and psychological needs of the young people are met where at all possible.
· To participate in the day-to-day operation of the service provided in accordance with the organisational guidelines and objectives.
· To create within the home, a normal domestic and nurturing environment for the young people in Vitality care.
What we are looking for
If you do not hold an NVQ or Diploma Level 3 in working with children and young people you must be willing to work towards it.
You will be required to start at 7.30am until 23.00 and work on a two on four off pattern where possible. You will be required to sleep in the home overnight.
If possible, you would need experience working with Children and young people with emotional behavioural difficulties.
The duties of the role are as follows.
- Be able to support young people to attend education daily, follow Educational Health care plans.
- Complete and manage paperwork which includes good report writing skills to record daily documentation.
- Follow care plans to ensure the young persons need are being met.
- Support the young people to attend medical appointments, doctors, dentist, opticians, CAMHS.
- Be a role model.
- Assist, plan and engage in activities and hobbies with the young person.
- Meet the emotional and physical needs of our young people.
- Help build positive relationships.
- Be able to liaise with all other professionals such as police, social worker, Ofsted.
- Interact and engage in visual and over the phone contact for the young people with families.
- Excellent communication skills
- To create a friendly and relaxed environment for the young people encouraging enjoyment, self-motivation, self-esteem and respect for themselves and others.
- To assist with the day-to-day administration of the home by completing and maintaining accurate recordings.
- To promote and uphold anti-discriminatory practices and equal opportunity practices in line with Company policy.
- Record and administer medication.
- You need to have a driving license.
- Be over the age of 21.
What we offer
We provide a salary of between £31,852.80 - £32,890.80 per year and this includes a sleep-in allowance. You will be required to work 173 hours per month which is 11 shifts and 11 sleep ins. All additional training and team meetings will be required as extra if you are not on shift on these days.
We offer a 224 hours per year holiday without and additional benefit for working bank holidays.
We offer time and a half for every bank holiday you work.
The Christmas and New year bank holiday period will be paid at a higher rate due to the time of year of expected working hours.
At Vitality Care Residential we ensure that we provide you with a sleep-in payment for each of your holiday days taken so that you are not just being paid for the hours taken off work.
We offer an excellent develop opportunity for all members of our team. We will offer external and internal vacancies to help develop staff. All the management team have progressed from within other roles in the home from.
Vitality Care Residential works with Gateway Psychology Services Ltd to ensure that all staff are provided with adequate training to provide the young people with a therapeutic approach to meet the young person’s individual needs. However, we also ensure that staff have the support from a psychologist for one-to-one support in the role.
We follow the PACE model – Playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy to meet the young people’s needs. We also provide an Art Psychotherapist to work with the young people on a weekly basis.
At Vitality Care Residential we are a growing business and now have homes in Staffordshire (Newcastle Under Lyme) and Staffordshire moorlands (Alton). Both homes are registered for three young people. We have been established since 2019.
Our home at Newcastle Under Lyme is currently rated OUTSTANDING in child protection, positive outcomes and Leadership and management by OFSTED.
Our home in Alton is rated GOOD in all areas.
Our Ethos at Vitality Care Residential is to support and encourage all young people to experience a journey in their lives that’s filled with positive memories, values, love, and laughter.
Vitality Care offers a new chapter in all individuals lives that provides opportunities to learn, grow and experience a healthy, safe lifestyle.
We seek to achieve positive outcomes for young people by delivering a framework of quality. This is achieved by employing staff who are experienced and are active role models with excellent morals, values, and ethics.
We take pride in our service by encouraging young people to be independent and learn to be responsible by respecting all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, sexual orientation, and ability.
Vitality Care aims to achieve this through the following key objectives:
- Education
- Interaction
- Positive Role Models
- Offering new life experiences, opportunities, and ventures
- Providing an environment that is safe, nurturing and tailored to meet all individual needs.
- To manage risks and allow the young person to take reasonable risks.
- The young person to be involved in their overall care with relevant others and those who are important in their lives.
- Multi-agency working
- Take on board the views, wishes and preferences of all individuals.
- Monitoring, evaluation, and feedback
- Investing in the staff team to recognise the importance of development and progression via training, supervision, and support.
We offer an Employee Assistant Programme - Health Assured’s EAP helpline is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our counsellors help to support your employees with:
Mental health
Anxiety
Depression
Physical health
Self-identity
Addiction
Grief
Debt & finances
Discrimination
Relationships
Benefits of joining us.
- Company car whilst on shift.
- Meals included – catered for vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian etc.
- ON site parking.
- Private pension – you can opt out.
- Refer a friend scheme £250 for referral and £250 when passing probation (6 months).
- £500 welcome bonus, which is provided in your first wage packet.
- Employee of the month £25 in voucher.
- Time and half pay on bank holidays (excluding Christmas and new year, this will be enhanced payments).
- Employee assistance programme (as above).
- On site Clinical Psychologist for support for you.
- Career development – Level 3/4 – in childcare will be provided as development in this role (if the staff /applicant does not have this already.
- Fully paid induction training programme.
- Online training available at all times.
- Specialised training will be provided.
- Additional holiday increments starting at 4 years of service up to 6 years. 8 hours per day per additional year.
- You will have your Birthday off and receive £100 gift via voucher of your choice.
- Additional increment vouchers can be earned through performance throughout the year.
- Yearly team building exercise, which is paid by the company.
- If we receive Good or Above everyone will receive a Gift.
- Mileage allowance.
- Work phone when on shift.
- Casual dress.
- We provide you with a sleep-in payment of £40 for each of your holiday days.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £31,852.80-£32,082.62 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Education:
- GCSE or equivalent (required)
Licence/Certification:
- Driving Licence (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
