Trauma-Informed Youth Care Worker

Kibble; Paisley; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training funding

Healthcare support

Discounts

Childcare discounts

Counselling access

Cycle to Work

Generous holidays

Job summary

Kibble seeks a Child and Youth Care Worker to provide direct care for children and young people in its Open Campus, Safe Centre, Intensive Services and Community Services. You will support ages 12 to 25, work within a trauma-informed framework, and help deliver care plans with social and educational targets.

The role requires collaboration with social workers and other professionals, a commitment to safeguarding, and the ability to foster safety and coping skills in challenging situations.

Qualifications

• HNC in Social Care, SVQ Level 3 in Care or equivalent or the ability to undertake the HNC and SVQ Level 3 Social Care.
• Experience of working with children and young people or providing care/support to vulnerable people is desirable.
• Experience of working within the social care sector is desirable.
• Experience of working within residential childcare is desirable.
• Be willing to work in any service across the Kibble Group including the Safe Centre (Secure Care) or Community Based Services.
• Residential Childcare is regulated work and if successful you will be required to register with the SSSC, who are the workforce regulator, within their applied timeframes.
• Possess a full driving licence and be willing and able to drive school transport is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Have direct responsibility for the care and development of a number of children and young people. Each child or young person will have a placement programme involving social and educational targets, which will be regularly reviewed.
• Require to liaise with all relevant members of the multi-disciplinary team within Kibble to ensure a mutual understanding of these targets and to monitor and facilitate their achievement.
• Require to liaise with the area team social worker to ensure that there is both a mutual understanding of the care plan including social and educational targets and a linkage between these targets and the tasks being undertaken by the social worker.
• Meet with the parent(s) or other relative(s) of the child or young person to ensure that family contact is continuing, to seek their co-operation in achieving social and educational targets, to ensure that home leave is viable and is supported.
• The Child and Youth Care Worker will ensure that placement plans are recorded in the required format and that reports are provided within required timescales.
• Co-work with representatives from other agencies and ensure clear representation of needs and progress while adhering to policies.

Skills

Empathy

Communication

Teamwork

Education

HNC in Social Care

SVQ Level 3 in Care

Job description

Kibble seeks a Child and Youth Care Worker to provide direct care for children and young people in its Open Campus, Safe Centre, Intensive Services and Community Services. You will support ages 12 to 25, work within a trauma-informed framework, and help deliver care plans with social and educational targets.

The role requires collaboration with social workers and other professionals, a commitment to safeguarding, and the ability to foster safety and coping skills in challenging situations.