Action for Children
Residential Support Worker
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Salary: £25,949 per annum/ pro rata for part time (£13.45 per hour)
Location: Camelon, Falkirk
Contract/Hours: Permanent – Full Time 37 hours, Part Time- 21 hours and Causal (Early, late and weekend shifts, on a rotational basis)
Interviews will be held Thursday 20th August,
Benefits
- 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
- Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
- Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
- Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
- We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer
We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.
A bit about the role
‘Meeting new people, doing new things, seeing new places, that's what our short breaks services are all about.’
Join our fantastic, dedicated team at Tayavalla in Camelon, Falkirk, as a Residential Support Worker. Your role is crucial in creating a safe and supportive environment for children and young people to flourish.
Patience, empathy and resilience will go a long way, especially when supporting children through times that may feel challenging due to individual heightened behaviours or when meeting the complexities of some children’s health and personal care support needs. At times the role can be demanding, fast paced and busy where the ability to multi task is advantageous.
You won’t be doing this alone. At Tayavalla, it’s all about team work where we believe in investing in our team. You can expect a comprehensive induction, learn new specialised skills applicable to the role, and support for qualifications. Regular supervision and team meetings ensure you are integrated and valued within our team.
Short breaks are a chance for disabled children and young people to have fun, gain independence, learn and develop while their families get to take a much needed break. Our children love to engage in playful and sensory activities such as singing, ball games, arts/crafts, garden play, water play, puzzles, dressing up and iPad time. Opportunities to support children within outings and stimulating activities within the community are encouraged to ensure they have a positive experience when staying at Tayavalla.
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This isn’t just a job, it’s an opportunity to be part of a caring, supportive team to build meaningful connections to the children we support to make their lives better.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
Some key responsibilities of the Residential Support Worker are;
- Provide lead case/care planning management, including assessing, reviewing and managing risk
- Co-ordinating responsibilities within the service, with multi agency and producing family information, including analysis and written reports
- Attendance at professional meetings including reviews, court work etc.
- Supporting children to achieve positive outcomes.
- Adopting approaches in line with the principles of The Promise
- Assisting the children in all aspects of their care and supporting their health and wellbeing.
Let's talk about you
Are you resilient and have a positive approach to change and challenge? We are looking for someone with a ‘can do’ attitude to join our team. Ideally you will have:
- Demonstrable experience of working in a care setting and developing positive relationships through trust
- Application of a range of techniques to co-ordinate and communicate with service users and their families
- Demonstrate a solution focused approach to address problems, individually and in a team setting
- Ability to stay, steady, patient and grounded even when the role brings moments that feel challenging
- To possess Higher National Certificate in Social Care (or recognised equivalent) and an SVQ3 in Social Care – Children and Young People or if you do not possess this you must be prepared to complete this within 3 years of commencing employment with is, full support will be provided
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If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Jessica Jarvis at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 13473 We'll be happy to give you any support you require.
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
- At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
- Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
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