Leicester City Council
Waking Night Assistant
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Description
Full Time and/or Part Time Positions Available/Permanent
Playing a vital role in improving the lives of young people in Leicester. Join our ever improving and expanding service, ensuring children are at the heart of our work. We are committed to working in partnership with children, families, and young adults to achieve the best outcomes. Based at any one of our 7 children's homes or one of our newly opening homes based across the Leicester City suburbs.
You'll provide care, guidance and support to children and young people, some of whom have challenging behaviours (including physical and verbal aggression), disabilities, and/or complex health care needs. Shifts will be from 9.30pm to 8am. This will include working on weekends and bank holidays. For night/weekend working, payment will be at plain time plus a premium of 33.3 percent. It is required that Waking Night staff will not sleep on duty.
You'll be required to work from whatever location is necessary at the time and will be able to make your own way to your place of work, whether this be by your own car or public transport.
What You'll Be Doing
- Working as part of a residential team of between 20 to 30 people providing around-the-clock care.
- Providing consistent care when working with children and young people whilst being flexible and approach all tasks (including personal care), in a positive manner to ensure that the needs of the individual are paramount throughout the night.
- Having experience with housekeeping, you'll complete various tasks such as cleaning surfaces, washing dishes, vacuuming, emptying waste bins, basic sewing repairs, etc.
- Managing stripping beds, soiled clothing/bedding, laundry sorting, washing, ironing, and distributing the linen.
- Reporting any incidents/accidents involving children and young people as soon as practically possible to the senior staff on duty.
- Risk assessing the building regularly to ensure that everything is in order and report any breaches of building security.
- Ensuring that the appropriate records relating to children and young people and the team are kept up to date in the agreed format and are securely managed and filed.
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What You'll Need
- The ability to build appropriate and trusting relationships with children and young people, you'll develop their self-esteem and confidence.
- Experience of working with people, and particularly those with challenging behaviour, you'll approach situations in a diplomatic and sensitive manner.
- Some previous experience working in a caring role, with knowledge of moving and handling, you'll be physically fit to assist with lifting and providing personal care, where this is needed.
- Good level of communication skills, you'll be able to give and receive verbal handovers, write notes and reports, including observations of children and young people.
- Being an organised individual, you'll be able to manage your own workload with minimum direction.
Under the Equality Act 2010, you must be aged 21 and over and upon being offered a post, we will do an enhanced DBS check, qualifications check and reference checks.
What We Can Offer You
- As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance.
- Generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- The chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities.
- Several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.
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We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.
Please note that Leicester City Council is unable to offer candidates visa sponsorship. So, if you are seeking this, we will not be able to progress your application.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Michelle Woodrup on 0116 454 0430 or alternatively at Michelle.Woodrup@leicester.gov.uk
Region
Central
Location
Various locations across Leicester City
Salary
FTE GBP26,403 - GBP28,142
PTE GBP13,201 - GBP14,071
Package
Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP38,374.53
Contractual Hours
37
Basis
Full time
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