Residential Support Worker

Action for Children; Aberdeen City; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

29 days annual leave

Training and development opportunities

Pension with employer contribution

Staff discount portal

Flexible maternity and paternity packs

Job summary

Action for Children is looking for an Outreach Worker/Residential Support Worker in Aberdeen. This full-time role involves supporting unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in becoming more independent. Responsibilities include care planning, risk assessment, and emotional support.

You will be part of a passionate team working toward creating brighter futures for vulnerable children. The position offers 27,100 GBP per annum, with various benefits including 29 days annual leave and

Qualifications

• Registered with SSSC or willingness to do so within 3 months.
• Willingness to work towards a relevant qualification.
• Experience working with multi-agencies.

Responsibilities

• Implement care planning for individuals.
• Manage assessments of needs and risks.
• Provide emotional and social support.

Skills

Experience with children

Knowledge of risk assessment

Excellent IT skills

Experience managing challenging Behavi

Multi-agency collaboration

Education

HNC in social care or SVQ 3

Job description

Outreach Worker/ Residential Support Worker

Salary: £27,100 per annum

Location: Aberdeen

Contract/Hours: Permanent, Full-Time 37 hours, Monday - Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-4.30pm.

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.

Vulnerable children in the UK need your help

Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.

Last year, we helped more than 687,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.

Why Action for Children?

Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.

A bit about the role

We provide support to unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking young people on an outreach basis. 1-1 support is carried out to enable them to become more independent during their asylum-seeking process. The support provided can vary from cooking, navigation around the city, to support with legal and health appointments, seeking education and emotional support. You will liaise closely with the Social Work team at Westburn Resource Centre as well as other professionals.

Although you will be based in the residential setting at Clifton Road, and you would be able to pick up additional shifts there, the role required will focus predominantly on providing the outreach support for our unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• Supporting and implement care planning for individual and young people.
• Undertaking assessments of needs and assessing and managing risks.
• Supporting children and young people with independent living skills.
• Administration of medication and clinical procedures.
• Building and maintaining positive relationships.
• Emotional and social support.
• Ensuring records and reporting are maintained.
• Prepare, manage and build positive relationships to service users to effectively live independently.

Let's talk about you

• HNC in social care and or SVQ 3 or willingness to work towards this.
• Registered with SSSC or willingness to do so within 3 months of employment.
• Experience working with children and young people and working with multi agencies.
• Experience managing challenging behaviour e.g. looked after children, attachment behaviour.
• Knowledge of risk assessment and safeguarding.
• Excellent IT skills.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace.

We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

[For Children Service roles only: Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.]

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