Children's Residential Worker
Conwy
£16.73/hr
Start date: ASAP
AKTON Recruitment is working closely with the local authorities and wea re looking for a Children's Residential Worker in the Conwy area. Enhanced DBS.
Job Purpose:
To ensure that Looked After Children & Young People receiving short breaks/looked after full time in Conwy receive the appropriate levels and standards of care and support, that is based on helping children and/or young people live their life differently as they are
living it day to day.
To provide focused, timely, reliable, and responsive support that allows for the child/young person to learn and practice new thoughts, feelings, and actions in the most important areas of their lives, via applied therapeutic knowledge and a genuinely caring relationship that creates a happy and safe environment.
Care Workers can work in other care settings within the county. Settings include those supporting individuals with learning disabilities and /or complex emotional and behavioural needs and full training and support will be provided.
Duties and Responsibilities - Job Specific
1. To be able to develop trusted professional relationships with children and young people to keep them safe, balancing empowerment and limit setting in a nurturing, supportive and consistent way
2. Demonstrate commitment, openness, and willing to engage with the approach to the model of care in order to facilitate the therapeutic needs of children/young people.
3. To deliver child-centred care and support ensuring that children and young people receiving care and support that responds to their individual needs. and involves them in matters and decisions that affect them
4. To create a homely, warm, kind, friendly, environment ensuring that all your actions are transparent and open for discussion in professional supervision in accordance with the National Code of Professional Practice for Social Care
5.To undertake sleep-in duties, work unsociable hours and complete live / waking night duties at various locations as required to meet the individual or group needs of children and young people.
Knowledge & Skills
- Knowledge & Skills Good level of education, Educated to GCSE, Grade C level (5 or more GCSE's) or QCF Level 2 in Health and Social Care/Social Practice (or equivalent)
- QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent or ability to study at Diploma level
- Experience of working effectively with young people who present challenging behaviours, to downplay risks and dangers through minimalist and casual language and actions
