Childrens Home - Residential Support Worker Waking Night

We are looking for residential support workers for our new Children's home in the Nottingham area. It is an exciting time to join a growing company and an ideal opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the children we support. This will be a challenging, yet ultimately rewarding role.
We are looking for experienced support workers forwaking nights shifts. There may also the opportunity for overtime shifts which can include day shifts, waking night and sleeps and shifts at other homes. If a permanent role isn't for you, we are also looking to recruit bank staff.
The role will be to support children between the ages of 7 and 17, providing them with a supportive role model and will support them to develop essential life skills whilst living in a positive, happy home. The needs and abilities of the children within our care vary, so the successful candidates would need to be patient, understanding and able to support the children in accordance with their individual care plans.
The successful candidate will need to have a minimum of 1 years' experience in working in a children's residential setting and be caring and supportive. You will need to be flexible in your availability as you may be required to work additional shifts to provide cover for absence/annual leave. It is also a requirement that you have a full driving licence, due to the nature of the tasks within the role.
The role of the Waking Night Residential Support Worker is to be part of a team who:
· Provide direct care overnight, to children and young people who are living in our children's homes.
· Assist in positively and proactively promoting a trauma informed caring environment through high standards of professional practice, ensuring young person's personal care, social and emotional needs are met in line with support/placement plans and risk assessments.
· 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 the home.
· Safeguard and promote the welfare of young people assess and report areas of concern through the implementation of child protection procedures.
The duties and responsibilities of the role are varied and can be largely dependent on the children you will be supporting. They include (but are not restricted to):
· To support and supervise young people who are not asleep at the start of your shift and routinely check on young people at regular intervals throughout the night.
· To promptly respond and attend to the needs of any young people who may wake, experience distress, be unable to sleep or those who may need to be woken for personal care (toileting), or medical reasons.
· To ensure all young people's health and emotional wellbeing needs are met through the administration of medication, the implementation of dietary and nutritional requirements in line with their individual health care plans and risk assessments.
· To carry out a series of regular security and Health & Safety checks of the house throughout the night and record relevant outcomes and any significant occurrences, faults/hazards on relevant documentation.
· To maintain the necessary record keeping and administrative systems within the home to the expected standards through written, verbal, and electronic communications, ensuring the young people's needs are effectively monitored, recorded and reported by the completion of accurate, timely and factual daily records and night reports.
· To follow internal communication processes which enable you to keep up to date with any changes to the service and care provided to the young people.
· To undertake a variety of domestic work and maintain high levels of housekeeping.
· To provide a positive role model to be able to offer advice, guidance and assistance where appropriate.
· Establishing relationships which young people perceive to be positive, warm and rewarding.
· Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties.
· Providing emotional support at times of difficulty or stress and being a calming influence on the young people.
· Keeping accurate and detailed records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager.
· Empowering young people and facilitating their active involvement in the decision making about their lives and future.
· To work as part of an effective and loyal member of the team
· Being aware of the aims and objectives of the home and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them
If you feel as though you would like to work in our close-knit team, to support the children and young people in our care, help them stay safe and support them to develop the skills they need for their futures, please contact us for an application form.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)