Children's Residential Worker

Carestaff Solutions Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

5.6 weeks annual leave

Dedicated consultant

App for availability and booking

Open 7 days a week 24 hours a day

Job summary

Carestaff Solutions Limited invites passionate residential workers to join a team that puts children first. You will support children and young people in care, ensuring wellbeing, safety and a nurturing environment across shifts as required.

The role involves adhering to policies, engaging with young people, identifying risks, and applying diverse strategies to manage behaviour while maintaining a safe, open, and caring atmosphere.

Qualifications

• Caring nature with good communication skills.
• Enthusiastic, friendly and person centred.
• Experienced in working with children and young people.

Responsibilities

• Work within policies and procedures in the client environment.
• Monitor administrative requirements to meet children’s legislation standards.
• Promote a safe, structured and nurturing environment.
• Engage proactively with young people showing challenging behaviour.
• Help young people identify unsafe or abusive situations.
• Ensure health, safety and wellbeing of children at all times.
• Utilise diverse intervention strategies for behaviour management.
• Create an open culture with the young people in care.
• Safeguard children following safeguarding protocols.

Skills

Caring nature

Good communication

Enthusiastic

Friendly

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.