Senior Residential Support Worker

Aspris; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Comprehensive induction

Career progression

Reward and discount scheme

Paid enhanced DBS

Wellbeing support

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Aspris Children’s Services in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Residential Support Worker to provide compassionate care for young people and support the staff team in daily operations.

The role requires energy, resilience, and strong communication, with a focus on creating a safe, structured, and homely environment. A full UK driving licence is beneficial and a genuine commitment to safeguarding is essential.

Qualifications

• Level 3 qualification in Children’s Residential and Childcare is essential.
• Experience in residential childcare is an advantage.
• Strong communication and empathy with young people essential.

Responsibilities

• Support our young people with compassionate care.
• Assist the Registered Manager to run the staff team and daily operations.
• Provide 1:1 support and structured activities for residents.
• Help maintain a safe, welcoming, and well-organised home environment.

Skills

Resilience

Communication

Organisation

Caring

Attentive

Teamwork

Education

Level 3 Qualification in Children’s Residential and Childcare

Job description

There is no better time to start a career within residential childcare than now!

Due to the nature of this role, we are only able to consider candidates with a full UK driving licence.

If you would like to build a career that gives you genuine sense of achievement and fulfilment knowing that you can have a positive impact on the young people we support, then look no further.

Our Children's Home is recruiting for Senior Residential Support Workers now!

We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and passionate people to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will support our young people and be responsible for providing compassionate care during your time with them. This role also involves supporting the Registered Manager to run a successful staff team and to oversee the day to day operation of the homes.

Our Benefits Include...

• Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
• Comprehensive induction
• Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
• Pension scheme
• Paid for enhanced DBS
• Wellbeing support
• Cycle to work scheme and more!

Our children's home in Sheldon, Birmingham, supports three young males who have emotional, developmental and/or behavioural difficulties. The staff team is culturally diverse and offers 1:1 support; providing structure and stability in an understanding, supportive and non-judgmental manner. Our young people are highly active and love spending time outdoors doing various activities, so the successful candidate will need to have the energy and initiative to get involved.

Due to the location of this role, applicants must hold a full UK driving licence and have access to a vehicle.

This is an exciting and rare opportunity to build a meaningful career within a new team of like-minded and caring individuals, whilst empowering young people to develop within a safe and homely environment preparing them for a bright future.

At Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role within residential childcare, we will give you all the training and support you need to progress!

A Level 3 Qualification In Children’s Residential And Childcare Is Essential, As Well As Previous Experience Within a Residential Childcare Setting Along With The Following Characteristics

• Resilience We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.
• Communication Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
• Organisation As well as supervising the staff team, you’ll need to be confident and organised in updating care plans and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.
• Caring Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
• Attentive No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.

Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.

If you want residential childcare to be a job for life, Aspris Children’s Services will help you there.

Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years, for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.