Senior Childrens Residential Support Worker (EBD) - Together Trust : Job Details

Have you ever wanted to help set up a new Children’s Home? 

This is an opportunity to help create the ideal nurturing, caring, safe environment from scratch.   You will be working with a team of people that are there to support the opening of this new Children’s Home, in a fully refurbished property.

Together we make a difference, develop and learn, and support each other.  Every day with us is different, but our mission remains the same: To champion the rights, needs and ambitions of the people we support - they are at the heart of everything we do. We stand by them and we work together for change.

The Together Trust is one of the North Wests leading and has formed a partnership with Manchester City Council to set up and provide an excellent children’s home where children with behavioural issues who have had a difficult start in life find a secure loving home.

You will help to create a caring home for up to 3 children who need permanent care or who need support to help them prepare for a move into foster care. You will work as part of a dedicated team to help support these children helping to build a better life for them.   

Location – Lower Broughton / Cheetham Hill - North Manchester

Hours - 37.5 hours per week

Salary - £) per hour.

Sleep in shifts paid at £96.00 per shift.

We also offer….

• Annual Leave

   27 day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years

• Generous pension scheme

  and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions and up to 6 x basis salary death in service 

• Occupational sick pay

   and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.

• Reward and Discount platform

   offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.

• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card

• Proud to be a real living wage employer

• Refer a friend scheme

  , be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us

• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications

• Long service awards

   including cash gifts and extra holiday.

• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online

• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home

We also provide a caring, supportive environment for all our employees, with a strong emphasis on a good work / life balance, and this something you can’t put a value on!

A

bout the position….

• Support less experienced staff via positive and effective team working, to achieve high quality standards of care that are set and agreed by the Registered Manager on behalf of the Trust.  

• Participate to establish an enabling culture, which individually and in groups, actively promotes the young people’s life chances to achieve optimal outcomes in line with the Quality care standards.

• Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of systems and policies which ensure compliance with legislative regulations and that high standards are achieved thus maximising quality of care, protection and appropriate control.

• Supervise and/or undertake keyworking responsibilities, including primary responsibility for the more complex cases, especially where safeguarding issues are involved.

• Develop, demonstrate, promote and maintain a good level of awareness of safeguarding issues, assessing and recording risk.  

• You will work flexibly to undertake the full range of duties in a well-planned way that respects and values the Children and Young People as individuals

We provide compassionate, nurturing care for the children and young people who are in crisis and have complex needs, supporting them to move on from a difficult past to a brighter future.

About you….

We look for applicants who have the following skills.

• You must have your QCF level 3 / 4 in Children, young people, and family’s practitioner qualification or equivalent to be eligible to apply for this position.

• Good communication and interpersonal skills, a large part of this role you will be working with Social Workers and parents.

• Previous experience in keyworking with the young people that we support, including primary responsibility in complex cases and being able consider the feelings and the wishes of the young people that we support. 

• Previous experience in shift leading, supervising team members in the absence of the Registered Manager / Assistant Manager, including contribution to assessment and appraisal of the team.

• Have a sound knowledge around the safeguarding of the young people that we support.

• A good standard of written English and IT skills would be essential, you