Current Vacancies

Children’s Residential Support Worker

You will support young people who are looked after in residential care and who may have complex needs and have experienced adverse childhood experiences. Some may have challenging behaviour.

You will listen to the individual child/young person to find out how they want to live their lives, what they want to achieve, what works well for them and what doesn’t. Your approach will be tailored to the individual child/young person, and you will encourage, motivate, and support them to achieve their goals and aspirations. You will be caring and non-judgemental.

Supporting in all aspects of daily life to be able to integrate into the community.

Attend to their physical and emotional needs.
Involve them in all the decisions and choices that affect them.
Help them attain the highest level of independence as possible.
Supporting them to attend school, college, go to the gym, attend clubs, go shopping, go to a football match… etc.
Support with family contact.

Salary and Hours

Starting rate of £12.91 per hour. 12 Hour shift pattern (7am-7pm and 7pm-7am – 4 day rolling pattern including weekends and bank holidays).

Permanent Positions, Full-Time (42 Hours per week)

Our benefits include –

– Career progression opportunities

– Fully funded Induction programme

– Access to a wide range of free online courses for all staff

– 28 days annual leave (including bank holidays)

– Free Enhanced DBS check

– Progressive pay scale

– A competitive referral scheme ‘Refer a Friend’ to earn up to £300 per referral

– Rolling Rota

– Access to voluntary benefits including discounts at cinemas, restaurants, and retail establishments

– Out of hours support

– Support to achieve QCF 3 in Children and Young People

Experience

Experience is an advantage, but not essential as full training will be provided including QCF.

All Staff must complete the Employer Led Assessment and register with Social Care Wales within six months.

Staff will attend courses on a regular basis including, Risk Assessment, Physical intervention, Health & Safety, Food Hygiene, Safeguarding, Medication & Administration and more. Training is delivered through both in-house and external trainers.

Personal Attributes

The desire to make a positive difference in someone’s life.
An excellent role model with patience, care and understanding.
Having a hobby, yourself, or an interest that you could share with the person you support could also be an advantage.
A driving licence is essential.

For an informal discussion, please contact Sarah Trueman (01656) 667241 or to apply for the role please send a completed application form to sarah.trueman@cc-plus.co.uk.

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