Childrens Home Support Worker

Hampshire County Council; Winchester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire County Council is seeking a passionate Children’s Home Support Worker to join The Mead team. This role focuses on supporting children aged 10 to 18, fostering their development, and ensuring their well-being through a tailored Model of Care. Successful applicants will receive professional training in effective child care practices and will be essential in helping achieve positive outcomes for the children in care.

Benefits

Training in Pillars of Parenting

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Strong ability to form warm and encouraging relationships with children.
• Understanding the needs of children in residential care.
• Experience working to achieve children's independence.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with children and young people aged 10 - 18.
• Support children's goals and development.
• Deliver sessions based on psychological theories.

Skills

Emotional literacy

Team collaboration

IT skills

Education

CF Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Children’s Home Support Worker to join The Mead team at Hampshire County Council.

Are you looking for a challenging and diverse role working as part of a friendly and supportive team, with an opportunity to make a real difference?

Become a role model and make a difference to the lives of children in Hampshire!

Do you love working with children and young people and want to help make a significant difference in their lives? If so, we are looking for passionate and dedicated Children Support Workers to join our team. This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact and be part of a supportive and dynamic environment where your contributions are valued.

We believe passionately in ensuring our youth support workers have the skills and knowledge to be able to parent and care for children in our care. Through working within our Model of Care - Pillars of Parenting, we focus on each child’s individual strengths to support them to develop and achieve positive outcomes.

The key function of this role is to work directly with children and young people. It requires a child centred approach and ability to build warm, positive and strong relationships with our children. You will be a positive role model supporting children's goals and development.

You will work a shift pattern, whereby you will work shifts which include weekends and sleep in duties, flexible working requests can be considered. Additional enhancements are paid for evenings, weekends and sleep ins (terms and conditions apply).

For more information about residential support careers with Hampshire County Council, please visit our website.

Please note: We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role and therefore it is essential that you already have the Right to Work in the UK before applying.

What you'll do:

The key function of the role is to work directly with children and young people aged 10 - 18. Requiring a child centred approach and ability to build warm, positive and strong relationships with our children. You will be a positive role model supporting children's goals and development.

We believe passionately in ensuring our Residential Care Workers have the skills and knowledge to be able to authoritatively parent our children within our service. Through working within our Model of Care – Pillars of Parenting, we focus on each child’s individual strengths to support them to develop and achieve positive outcomes.

Hampshire use a Pillars of Parenting Model of Professional Child Care which is an applied psychological model of professional childcare drawing on attachment and trauma theory, CBT and positive psychology. Monthly consultations are carried out with an Applied Psychologist (Educational or Clinical) and a plan based on psychological evidence-based practice is agreed and implemented for specific young people.

There will be an opportunity to carry out specific key work sessions with individual young people that draw on therapeutic approaches agreed during monthly consultations. You will be given training in pillars of parenting and psychological theories underpinning their practice. This training is carried out by two consultant psychologists who specialise in this area, and you will gain subject relevant qualification.

It is essential that you have the ability to form warm and encouraging relationships with children to support their development and positive experiences.

What we're looking for:

• Ability to form warm and encouraging relationships with children to support their development and positive experiences.
• Physically ability to participate in all aspects of Team Teach.
• Ability to demonstrate emotional literacy in relationship to self and others.
• Actively supporting and encouraging children to progress towards their full potential.
• An understanding of the needs of the children in residential care and have experience working with them to achieve independence.
• Knowledge of how to safeguard and support children in residential care who have experienced trauma, harm or abuse.
• A team player with strong collaborative skills.
• Sound IT skills and able to accurately record information.
• CF Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care or equivalent. If you don't hold this qualification, you will be required to undertake the course within a specified regulatory timescale*