Childrens Residential Support Worker

Do you want to enable children and young people who have been taken into care to have the best possible start in life? Would you like to get paid to play football, do arts and crafts, play computer games and go to theme parks?!!!

Are you enthusiastic, resilient, confident, and driven to enrich and make a difference in the lives of young people? Are you someone that wants to make a difference to the lives of young people; to enable them to develop socially, emotionally and behaviourally in a setting where they feel safe and cared for?

Vetro Social Care has an amazing opportunity for a Childrens Residential Support Worker to join a friendly, Childrens Residential Service in Enfield, North london. The home is a specialist small children's home providing niche services to children between the ages of 8-17yrs whom have E.B.D- Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties, where we will meet the needs of Looked After Children aged 8+ who have experienced trauma and display varying levels of emotional dysregulation and/or self-harming behaviour.

Overview:

• Title: Children Residential Support Worker
• Salary: £26,000 p.a
• Location: Enfiled, North London
• Shifts:3 shifts- Early 7.30 am -2 pm, Evening 2.30 pm- 9 pm and 8 pm-8 am waking nights
  Contract: Permanent
• Must have experience working within Childrens residential Support work

Benefits:

• Great Benefits
• * Free parking
• * Pension scheme
• * Wellbeing service
• * Fund QCF Level 3 Residential childcare
• * Trainings and supervision
• * Paid Annual leave
• * On call support
• * Advance to Rota in advance

Responsibilities and Duties

• * To care, nurture and establish positive relationships with the children/young
• people, assessing needs and working collaboration in producing,
• implementing, delivering, and revising individual care plans.
• * To organise participate in activities for children and young people
• * To maintain a high quality of care and support which meets the physical,
• emotional, intellectual, social, and cultural needs of children and young
• people within the care of aspirations. Working within the Children's Act 1989,
• Every child Matters and all other relevant legislation.
• * Provide advice, assistance, and support on a 1:1 basis to enable the child to
• address past and present difficulties
• * To support with Domestic chores such as cooking, cleaning, general
• maintenance and promoting good hygiene within the home
• * Providing emotional support at the time of difficulty or stress
• * Attending young people's meetings and contributing to them
• * Responsibility for the accurate of maintenance of financial records
• * Be a key worker to a young person
• * Empower young people and facilitating their active involvement in decision
• making about their lives and future
• * Support young people to achieve their goals and optimise their potential
• * Provide support to young people with homework and extracurricular activities.
• * Keep accurate records and providing written reports on young people for
• planning reviews meetings, meetings any other meetings as directed by the
• line manager
• * Support young person to keep good hygiene and involve in day-to-day
• routine of the home
• * Support young to all health appointments and complete the relevant
• documents as needed

Childrens Residential Support Worker

Qualifications and skills

Criteria- Essential and Desirable

• * Minimum 3 years' experience working with children and young people,
• preferably in a children's residential home, or equivalent settings
• * QCF Level 3 in Residential childcare or equivalent - Desirable
• * A passion for working with children - Essential
• * An enhanced D.B.S check will be completed -Essential
• * Full UK driving licence - Desirable
• * Applicants will need to be flexible to work as per the need of the home -
• Essential
• * Good Communication skills -Essential
• * Resilience and Patience- Essential
• * Going the extra mile -Essential
• * Support workers that have work in semi-independence settings will be
• considered- Essential