Level 3 Children's Residential Worker

Carestaff Solutions Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dedicated consultant

Phone app to manage shifts

Open 7 days a week 24/7

Part funded mandatory training

5.6 weeks annual leave

Variety of shifts

Job summary

Carestaff Solutions Limited is seeking passionate, experienced children and young people residential workers to join our team in the Greater London area. The role focuses on safeguarding, creating a safe, nurturing environment, and delivering structured support to children with challenging behaviour.

You will work on varied shifts, with a focus on wellbeing and education. Ideal candidates have a caring nature, good communication, and reliability, with NVQ Level 3 in Children's residential or

Qualifications

• Caring nature with good communication skills.
• Enthusiastic and friendly attitude.
• Flexible and reliable.
• Person-centred and experienced in child-focused care.

Responsibilities

• Work within and ensure delivery of policies and procedures in the client environment.
• Monitor administrative requirements to meet children’s legislation and home practices.
• Promote a safe, structured and nurturing environment.
• Proactively engage with young people showing challenging behaviour.
• Assist young people to identify unsafe, harmful, or abusive situations.
• Ensure health, safety and wellbeing of children and young people at all times.
• Utilise a variety of intervention strategies for behaviour management.
• Create an open culture with the young people in care.
• Ensure safeguarding protocols are followed to keep children safe.

Skills

Caring nature

Good communication

Enthusiastic

Friendly

Flexible

Reliable

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Children's residential or equivalent

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 utilized 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.

The requirements of an agency Support Worker for Children:

• Caring nature with good communication skills.
• NVQ Level 3 qualification in Children's residential or other relevant qualifications.
• Enthusiastic and friendly.
• Flexible and reliable.
• Passionate
• Person Centred
• Experienced

About the Company:

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 20 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.