Residential Support Worker

Action for Children; North Johnstone; On-site; AUD 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave benefits

Professional qualifications and full培训

Flexible family leave options

Pension with employer contribution

Staff discounts and retailer benefits

Real Living Wage accredited

Job summary

Action for Children invites applications for a Residential Support Worker role at LoomWalk, Kilbarchan. You will help create a safe, nurturing environment for children and young people, supporting their health, wellbeing and development through patient, collaborative care.

You will engage in lead planning, multi‑agency coordination, and attend reviews and meetings. A relevant qualification is required, with support to achieve it within three years.

Qualifications

• Experience in care settings and building trust with service users and families.
• Ability to co-ordinate and communicate with service users and families.
• Solution-focused approach to problems in a team setting.
• Patient, steady, and able to stay grounded under pressure.
• Experience working with disabled children and young people.
• Safeguarding knowledge and excellent communication skills.
• Willingness to complete required qualifications within 3 years if not possessed.

Responsibilities

• Provide lead case/care planning management, including assessing, reviewing and managing risk.
• Coordinate responsibilities within the service, work with multi‑agency partners and produce family information, analyses and reports.
• Attend professional meetings including reviews and court work.
• Support children to achieve positive outcomes.
• Apply The Promise principles in practice.
• Assist children in care and support their health and wellbeing.

Skills

Care setting experience

Relationship building

Communication skills

Patience and resilience

Teamwork

Education

Higher National Certificate in Social Care (or recognised equivalent)

SVQ3 in Social Care – Children and Young People

Job description

Benefits

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• 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
• We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer

About us

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

About the role

‘Meeting new people, doing new things, seeing new places, that's what our short breaks services are all about.’

Join our fantastic, dedicated team at Renfrewshire Short Breaks, LoomWalk in Kilbarchan as a Residential Support Worker. Your role is crucial in creating a safe and supportive environment for children and young people to flourish.

Patience, empathy and resilience will go a long way, especially when supporting children through times that may feel challenging due to individual heightened behaviours or when meeting the complexities of some children’s health and personal care support needs. At times the role can be demanding, fast paced and busy where the ability to multi task is advantageous.

You won’t be doing this alone. At LoomWalk, it’s all about teamwork where we believe in investing in our team. You can expect a comprehensive induction, learn new specialised skills applicable to the role, and support for qualifications. Regular supervision and team meetings ensure you are integrated and valued within our team.

Short breaks are a chance for disabled children and young people to have fun, gain independence, learn and develop while their families get to take a much needed break.

Our children love to engage in playful and sensory activities such as singing, ball games, arts/crafts, garden play, water play, puzzles, dressing up and iPad time. Opportunities to support children within outings and stimulating activities within the community are encouraged to ensure they have a positive experience when staying at LoomWalk.

This isn’t just a job, it’s an opportunity to be part of a caring, supportive team to build meaningful connections to the children we support to make their lives better.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• 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.
• Supporting children to achieve positive outcomes.
• Adopting approaches in line with the principles of The Promise
• Assisting the children in all aspects of their care and supporting their health and wellbeing.

Let's talk about you

Are you resilient and have a positive approach to change and challenge? We are looking for someone with a ‘can do’ attitude to join our team. Ideally you will have:

• Demonstrable experience of working in a care setting and developing positive relationships through trust
• Application of a range of techniques to co-ordinate and communicate with service users and their families
• Demonstrate a solution focused approach to address problems, individually and in a team setting
• Ability to stay, steady, patient and grounded even when the role brings moments that feel challenging
• Experience of working with disabled children and young people
• Safeguarding knowledge and excellent communication skills
• To possess Higher National Certificate in Social Care (or recognised equivalent) and an SVQ3 in Social Care – Children and Young People or if you do not possess this you must be prepared to complete this within 3 years of commencing employment with is, full support will be provided