Children's Residential Support Worker - Sanctuary Personnel : Job Details

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Children’s Residential Support Worker to work full-time based in a Children’s home in High Wycombe.

The salary for this permanent Children’s Residential Support Worker job is up to £26,500.

Main Duties:

• Working as a Children's Residential Support Worker, you must be willing to go above and beyond for the children and young people, ensuring that they have an experience of childhood that they can reflect upon and carry with them into adulthood. You must be driven to ensure that the children and young people have the experience of childhood that they deserve, one filled with fun, laughter, friendship and discovery.
• Using your experience and skills – further developed with our support and training, you will assist with the care of our children and young people
• Training includes reflective practice to consistently improve the way we care for children
• You will create positive relationships with the children, meeting their needs and always safeguarding them
• You will create timetables, setting boundaries and expectations for the young people
• Consistency and organisation skills are key
• You will meet a variety of children and young people, some of whom may require high levels of supervision and support
• Maintain records contemporaneously throughout the day and be able to update plans and risk assessments as needed
• Complete activities with our young people
• Take our young people to appointments regally and develop relationships with external professionals and parents
• To ensure that the health needs of young people are assessed and provided for, developing and maintaining effective working partnerships with health professionals
• Ensure that participation in a range of therapeutic, social, and recreational activities/opportunities for individuals or groups of young people is encouraged
• To ensure that all children have a full and appropriate education timetable
• To be able to form positive relationships within education institutions, leading to promoting and advocating for the educational needs and rights of the child

Key Responsibilities:

• Level 3 Children, Young Person and Family Practitioner (or equivalent) qualification
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• An understanding of the needs of looked after young people
• Knowledge of relevant regulations, legislation and statutory guidance
• An understanding of intervention strategies

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more, as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, we regret that we can only respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their roles. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well as being a two-time finalist for the same award.

Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.