Children's Residential Support Worker

Carestaff Solutions; Sutton; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A health and social care staffing agency is seeking experienced children and young people residential workers. You will ensure the care and wellbeing of young individuals, considering safeguarding protocols while promoting a nurturing environment. Ideal candidates are enthusiastic, flexible, and passionate about improving lives. Benefits include dedicated support, flexible work, and training opportunities.

Benefits

Variety of work opportunities

Dedicated consultant support

Phone app for availability

Open 24/7

Part-funded training

5.6 weeks annual leave

Full support with CPD

Weekly pay

Qualifications

• Must be caring and possess good communication skills.
• Enthusiasm and friendliness are essential.
• Flexibility and reliability are key attributes.
• Experience working with children and young people is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective delivery of the policies and procedures.
• Monitor and maintain administrative requirements.
• Promote a safe and nurturing environment.
• Engage proactively with young people showing challenging behavior.
• Assist young people in identifying unsafe situations.
• Ensure health, safety and wellbeing at all times.
• Utilise intervention strategies for behavior management.
• Create an open culture with young people under care.
• Ensure safeguarding protocols are adhered to.

Skills

Caring nature

Good communication skills

Enthusiastic

Friendly

Flexible

Reliable

Passionate

Person Centred

Experienced

Job description

Carestaff Solutions are looking for passionate, committed, enthusiastic, experienced children and young people residential workers.

Our clients put the care, wellbeing and education of children first and our workers reflect that child-centred approach when on shifts, so whether they are working on one shift at the last minutes or working on a rolling contract the Carestaff team member is as effective as the permanent of the team.

Here at Carestaff Solutions we know that its a privilege to work with children and young people who need our support, our aim is to improve the lives of the children and young people we work with, and in turn have a positive effect on their wider relationships.

Duties :

• Work within, and ensure effective delivery of the policies and procedures in the client environment.
• Monitor and maintain administrative requirements, ensuring that the outcome meets the standards set out in children’s legislation, and the homes working practices.
• Promote and actively encourage the delivery of a safe, structured and nurturing environment.
• Proactively engage with young people who display challenging behaviour.
• Assist young people to identify unsafe, dangerous, harmful and abusive situations, individuals and groups.
• At all times ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of the children and young people.
• Ensure a variety of intervention strategies are utilised in relation to behaviour management.
• Ensure an open culture is created with the young people in the care of the end client.
• Ensure that the child or young person is safe in terms of safeguarding protocols.

The benefits of working with Carestaff Solutions :

• Plenty of variety of work on offer.
• Your own dedicated consultant - we will look after you.
• A phone app for you to update your availability and book your work in.
• We are open 7 days a week 24 hours a day.
• Mandatory Training Part funded.
• 5.6 weeks annual leave.
• Full support with CPD.
• Weekly pay.

The requirements of an agency Support Worker for Children :

• Caring nature with good communication skills.
• Enthusiastic and friendly.
• Flexible and reliable.
• Passionate.
• Person Centred.
• Experienced.

About Carestaff Solutions :

We are a specialised health and social care staffing supplier, training and compliance provider to a variety of sectors including statutory, private and third sector organisations across the UK with concentrated support in the the North West of England and Greater London areas. The success of Carestaff Solutions is based around the reputation built up over the past 16 years on the quality of our service delivery, progressive approach, person centred approaches, partnership working, reliability plus the standard and the high support and training levels for our staff supplied. Carestaff Solutions are flexible, responsive and there for you 24 hours a day, so right when you need us the most we are ready and willing to support you, we never close.