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Children's Residential Support Worker (EBD service)
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Where
Stockport
What
Healthcare & Medical
Type
Permanent
Salary
Annual
Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People?
Our children's home in South Reddish, provides therapeutic support for up to 2 children who present with self-harm behaviours, trauma and attachment difficulties. The caring home provides intensive support to children and young people with recognised attachment issues and complex needs.
The Together Trust is one of the North West's leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.
You will be working in a caring home environment, nurturing, and supporting the young people we work with helping them to overcome the issues they are facing. You will work with the team and the Registered Manager to give the support that these Children and Young People deserve to help make life better for them.
The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people that we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We are looking for 3 Children's Residential Social Care Worker positions who can complete the full range of tasks required.
Location
South Reddish, Stockport
Hours
37.5 hours per week on a 7-day rota with 2 non-working days each week.
Salary
£24,700 per year, hourly rate of £13.45 per hour. Real Living Wage
Sleep in rate - £107.60 per shift
Weekend working enhancement - 25% uplift on the hourly rate (£16.82 ph) for weekend shifts.
Benefits
- Annual Leave: 27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years. Based on a working pattern of 5 days per week.
- Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service
- Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
- Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
- Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
- Proud to be a real living wage employer
- Refer a friend scheme, rewards for recommending a friend to work with us
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
- Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
- Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home
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About The Position
As a Children's Residential Social Care Worker, you will work as part of a residential childcare team providing support for the children and young people with their physical, emotional, and social needs with an emphasis on promoting their personal growth and independence.
Working on your own initiative and as part of a team, you will be to preparing and assisting the children and young people to fulfil the aims of their person-centred plan.
Assist with the assessments of need and formulation of plans. This involves working in partnership with other agencies and taking into account the wishes and feelings of the young people, their parents and other persons with parental responsibility, in line with legislation pertaining to the young people.
You will work flexibly to undertake the full range of duties in a well-planned way that respects and values the children and young people as individuals.
We provide compassionate, nurturing care for children and young people with autism, physical and learning disabilities along with communication, sensory and social difficulties.
There is an amount of admin of medication. Additional training is provided for all support requirements.
About You
Do you have the skills we are looking for:
- Good communication and interpersonal skills. You'll be expected to liaise with other staff, parents/carers, and professionals.
- Some previous experience of working in a children's residential setting along with flexibility to respond to the needs of the home.
- An ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining & encouraging open and honest communication.
- You must have a good understanding of English and IT skills and be happy to complete all the paperwork and care plans to a good quality. Which includes daily recording on IT systems (Clearcare) and other records such as incident reports.
- An enthusiastic, reliable and outgoing person with a level of maturity, skills and interests which can be utilised to engage the young people.
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Is this you? Are you ready to make a positive change? Then please take a closer look at the Full Job Description and Person Specification attached to this advert.
This service is regulated by Ofsted therefore all employees must be over the age of 22 years at the time of joining the service.
Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).
This role will involve regulated activity.
We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.
We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.
In order for the Trust to comply with the apprenticeship funding rules, it is a requirement of the role that the successful applicant must be able to evidence that (1) they have the right to work in the UK without additional approval for more than 20 hours each week throughout the year and (2) they have an eligible residency status for the purposes of the apprenticeship funding rules. In most cases this will mean that the individual needs to show that they have been ordinarily resident in particular countries (including the UK) at least 3 years before the start of the apprenticeship.
Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.
If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way, please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can to support you.
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