Youth Support Worker

Paragon Social Care; Crook; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Social Care in Crook, County Durham is seeking a compassionate Children’s Residential Support Worker to help create a safe, nurturing home for young people who may have experienced trauma. You’ll listen, support and encourage everyday progress, offering a calm, trusted presence in challenging times.

You’ll work within a specialist residential setting, building trusting relationships, supporting routines and safeguarding, and collaborating with colleagues, families and external

Qualifications

• Experience in children's residential care
• Residential childcare
• Children’s support work
• Youth work

Responsibilities

• Supporting children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD)
• Providing emotional support, reassurance and positive role modelling
• Creating a safe, warm and nurturing home environment
• Building trusting relationships based on respect, patience and consistency
• Encouraging positive behaviour while maintaining clear and appropriate boundaries
• Carrying out welfare checks in line with care plans and risk assessments
• Responding calmly and appropriately to incidents, safeguarding concerns and emergencies
• Supporting morning routines and the everyday rhythm of family life within the home
• Maintaining accurate records, reports and handovers
• Completing appropriate safety, security and fire checks
• Helping to keep the home clean, welcoming and comfortable
• Working closely with colleagues, managers, families and external professionals
• Following care plans, safeguarding procedures, Children’s Homes Regulations and organisational policies
• You don’t have to have the perfect CV.
• What matters most is who you are and how you treat people.

Job description

Children’s Residential Support WorkerCrook, County Durham | Full Time | Residential Childcare | Shift Work£33,488 per annumBe the person a child remembers for the right reasons.

Some jobs are about earning a living. Others give you the opportunity to change a life.

As a Children’s Residential Support Worker, you could be the person who listens when a young person feels nobody else will. The calm voice at the end of a difficult day. The trusted adult who keeps showing up, keeps believing in them and helps them discover that their past does not have to define their future.

We are looking for a compassionate, resilient and committed Children’s Residential Support Worker to join our team in Crook, County Durham, supporting children and young people who may have experienced trauma, instability, emotional difficulties or challenging circumstances.

This isn’t always an easy job.

There will be difficult days. There will be moments that test your patience, your resilience and your ability to remain calm under pressure.

But there will also be moments that make it all worthwhile — a young person beginning to trust you, achieving something they didn’t believe they could, opening up after weeks of silence, or simply feeling safe enough to smile.

Those moments matter. And so will you.

Your role

Working in a specialist children’s residential home, you’ll help create a place where young people feel safe, valued, listened to and cared for.

You’ll build genuine, trusting relationships and provide the consistency and encouragement that can make such a difference to a child who has experienced uncertainty.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Supporting children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD)
• Providing emotional support, reassurance and positive role modelling
• Creating a safe, warm and nurturing home environment
• Building trusting relationships based on respect, patience and consistency
• Encouraging positive behaviour while maintaining clear and appropriate boundaries
• Carrying out welfare checks in line with care plans and risk assessments
• Responding calmly and appropriately to incidents, safeguarding concerns and emergencies
• Supporting morning routines and the everyday rhythm of family life within the home
• Maintaining accurate records, reports and handovers
• Completing appropriate safety, security and fire checks
• Helping to keep the home clean, welcoming and comfortable
• Working closely with colleagues, managers, families and external professionals
• Following care plans, safeguarding procedures, Children’s Homes Regulations and organisational policies

Who we’re looking for

You don’t have to have the perfect CV.

What matters most is who you are and how you treat people.

We’d love to hear from you if you have experience in:

• Children’s residential care
• Residential childcare
• Children’s support work
• Youth work