Residential Support Worker
Salary: up to £28,099 per annum
Location: Rushden, Northamptonshire
Contract/Hours: Permanent/Full Time – 37 hours per week.
Benefits
- 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
- Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
- Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
- Highly competitive rewards package, plus a comprehensive supervision and development programme to continue your professional development.
- We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer.
- Free parking on site
Responsibilities
- Provide lead case/care planning management, including assessing, reviewing and managing risk.
- Co-ordinating responsibilities within the service, with multi agency and producing family information, including analysis and written reports.
- Attendance at professional meetings including reviews, court work etc.
- Lead shifts with the primary aim of the provision of a high-quality service.
- Supervise and guide staff as required, in accordance with Action for Children policies and procedures.
- Lead by example with the application of Action for Children’s policy procedures and professional practice standards and in line with registration requirements.
- Build and maintain relationships (within agreed professional boundaries) with children, young people, and their families through the provision of emotional, social, and practical interventions and support.
- Ensure that the views and needs of children/young people are heard and responded to by promoting communication and participation.
Qualifications
- Experience leading shifts in a care setting
- Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or recognised equivalent)
- Experience and training in safeguarding
- An innovative and creative approach to problem solving
- Experience of developing tailored care plans
- The ability to create a safe and fun environment for both staff and children in the home and in the community.
About the Service
The Squirrels is a warm, welcoming respite service for children with learning and physical disabilities and complex health needs, offering our children a true home‑from‑home environment. We offer overnight short breaks for up to 4 children at a time, ensuring every child receives highly personalised care in a calm nurturing environment.
Our comfortable, homely setting is centred around a large communal living and dining area, creating a relaxed and inclusive space where children can feel safe, supported and cared for. With an exceptional nursing and care team at the heart of the service, The Squirrels is a place where compassion, dignity and high-quality care part of everything we do.
Sponsorship note
We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion
At Action for Children, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
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