Senior Childrens Residential Support Worker (EBD)

Together Trust Centre; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sleep-in allowance

Generous pension scheme

Training and development opportunities

Job summary

Together Trust in Manchester is seeking a Senior Children's Residential Support Worker to join our Lower Broughton home, supporting children and young people with challenging behaviours. You will work as part of a committed team under the Registered Manager, delivering high quality care, safeguarding and education within a family-style home.

The role requires QCF Level 4 in Children, Young People and Families and extensive residential care experience, with strong communication, teamwork and

Qualifications

• QCF Level 4 in Children, Young People and Families Practitioner or equivalent is an essential requirement.
• Significant childcare experience within a Children's Residential setting.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Working with statutory and voluntary agencies.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• A current clean driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Provide a caring, safe, secure and accepting environment meeting basic needs.
• Support team through positive and effective collaboration to achieve high standards.
• Contribute to development, monitoring and review of systems and policies.
• Supervise key working responsibilities, including complex safeguarding cases.
• Develop awareness of safeguarding issues and assess risk.
• Promote safeguarding and welfare of children and young people.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Driving licence

Flexibility

Education

QCF Level 4 in Children, Young People and Families Practitioner or equivalent

Job description

# Senior Childrens Residential Support Worker (EBD)## Job Introduction**Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People? Our children’s home in Lower Broughton, North Manchester****provides residential Care for Children and Young People with challenging and complex behaviours, along with mild learning difficulties.**As one of the UK's best employers we are looking for a dedicated, proactive and highly experienced children's residential support worker.**Location: Lower Broughton, North Manchester****Hours: 37.5 hours - Full Time / Permanent****Salary: £30,912 per year (£15.85ph)****Enhancements: Sleep-in allowance of £107.60 per sleep shift****Time and a quarter paid for weekend hours worked (£19.81ph)**The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.We believe that everyone deserves a place to call home - whether that's a place to call your own or somewhere to get safety, stability and support. You’ll be helping children to grow their independence and shape their own story within a supportive, caring home.You will be working in a caring home environment with the wider team under the leadership of the Registered Manager, nurturing, and supporting the young people providing them with all the care, love, and support that they would receive as if it was their family home.**Responsibilities include but are not exhaustive*** Provide a caring, safe, secure and accepting environment that meets the basic physical, health, social needs and rights of the young people.* Support less experienced staff via positive and effective team working, to achieve high quality standards of care.* Participate to establish an enabling culture, which individually and in groups, actively promotes the young people’s life chances to achieve optimal outcomes in line with the Quality care standards.* Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and review of systems and policies.* Supervise and/or undertake key working responsibilities, including primary responsibility for the more complex cases, especially where safeguarding issues are involved.* Develop, demonstrate, promote and maintain a good level of awareness of safeguarding issues, assessing and recording risk.* Make assessments of need and coordinate the formulation of plans to enable these needs to be met. ,* Maximise educational opportunities and achievements for young people.* Supervise and undertake direct work that is designed to meet the young person’s needs as identified within the care plan* Establish and maintain positive and productive networks with communities and other agencies to achieve optimal outcomes and to implement practices.* Contribute to the assessment and appraisal of team members using discussion, direct observation.* Promote a positive image of the Trust through professional presentation at meetings in clear, factual report writing.* Take responsibility for the promotion of safeguarding and the welfare of children and young persons for who they are responsible for.**About You.*** QCF Level 4 in Children, Young People and Families Practitioner or equivalent is an essential requirement of this role. (All equivalent eligible qualifications are listed on the application form).* Significant childcare experience, within a Children's Residential setting.* Evidence of continuing professional development* Working with statutory and voluntary agencies* Flexibility to respond to the needs of the unit and young people* Good communication skills and interpersonal skills* Good organisational and time management skills* A current clean driving licence**Benefits*** **Annual Leave** 27-day holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years* **Generous pension scheme** **and death in service benefit**, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.* **Occupational sick pay** and family friendly policies including **enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.*** **Reward and Discount platform** offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.* Eligibility to apply for **Blue Light card*** Proud to be a **real living wage employer*** **Refer a friend scheme**, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us* Comprehensive **training and development opportunities**, including apprenticeship qualifications* **Long service awards** including cash gifts and extra holiday.* Promotion of **Wellbeing**across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleague and free weekly yoga session in person or online* Access to our **Employee Assistance Programme** for you and adults at your homeWe may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged.*Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.**If there is any part of your lived experience, you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can do to support you**The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.**Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself).**This role will involve regulated activity.*