Waking Night Support Worker

Aspris; Mildenhall; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NVQ/SVQ enrollment within 6 months

Degree level progression opportunities

Clear progression pathway

Job summary

Aspris is seeking a dedicated Waking Nights Support Worker to care for children and young people aged 8-18 in a residential home near Mildenhall. You will provide overnight supervision, ensure safety and emotional wellbeing, and respond to incidents with meticulous record-keeping.

The role emphasizes high attention to detail, continuous CPD and development opportunities to grow within Aspris as the service continues to expand.

Responsibilities

• Provide overnight care, supervision and support to children and young people in the home, ensuring safety, wellbeing and emotional needs are met during the night.
• Conduct welfare checks, respond to incidents, and maintain accurate records.
• Undertake household duties and contribute to a stable, safe and nurturing environment.
• Support CPD and development opportunities to help staff grow within the organisation.

Job description

Our children’s home is situated between Mildenhall and Lakenheath, in the Forest Heath District which boarders onto Cambridgeshire and Norfolk. It’s a 5-bedded home for males and females aged 8 - 18 with emotional, behavioural difficulties and other complex needs associated. The home seeks to provide a safe and understanding ethos in which the young person can be assisted to address their behaviours and to take responsibility for their own actions. The emphasis of the work is by way of intervention and to challenge the inappropriate behaviour through a holistic therapeutic approach.

Our home has a small holding where we keep farm animals which provides environment enrichment for our young people. Our staff and young people help to look after these.

At Aspris, we want every young person to feel understood, supported, and ready to take on the world. That’s why our homes are shaped around the needs of each child - this ensures that all of our young people get the support that’s shaped around their strengths, challenges, and goals.

While the world sleeps, as a Waking Nights Support Worker you will be making a real difference! You'll help create a safe, supportive, and caring environment where children and young people can feel secure and settled. Providing overnight care, supervision, and support to children and young people within the home, ensuring their safety, wellbeing, and emotional needs are met throughout the night.

You will also be expected to conduct welfare checks, respond to incidents, maintain accurate records, undertake household duties, and contribute to creating a stable, safe, and nurturing environment.

At Aspris, learning never stops - and that’s something we truly value. As a growing organisation, we rely on accurate, detailed data, which can include sensitive information such as incident reports and disclosures from young people. High attention to detail is essential to the role.

To support you, we offer continuous CPD and development opportunities, helping you grow and become the best version of yourself.

What does this mean?

• Automatic enrollment onto NVQ/SVQ qualifications within 6-months of starting a Residential Support role
• The opportunity to be qualified to degree level
• A clear pathway for you to progress in your role

We believe every child and young person has potential.

We work in partnership with parents and guardians to unlock this potential through specialist care, support and education. Tailoring our care and education provisions to meet the diverse needs of children and young people ensuring that they always receive the right support, at the right time, and in the right setting. Even when the journey seems hard, we use courage, resilience, kindness and dedication.

Our team of experts work together to deliver safe, nurturing environments where children can thrive. When a young person’s confidence grows, they become limitless. This is the heartbeat of our work - every day, every hour and every minute.

That is the Aspris difference.

At Aspris we're committed to ensuring that our colleagues are compensated with benefits that are meaningful and worthwhile - more information can be found here regarding what benefits we have to offer.