Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency is looking for experienced Residential Support Workers to work either full-time or part-time at a children’s home in Godstone, Surrey.
The salary for this position is up to £28,000 per annum.
If you’re passionate about delivering outstanding care to young children and want to join an organisation that offers both a high level of employee training and great possibilities for career progression, apply to this role today.
Main duties
- To lead a small team of residential care workers and/or Bank/Part Time Staff.
- The ability to undertake shift planning duties.
- To encourage the development of recreational activities both within and outside the home.
- To develop the skills, knowledge and expertise necessary in order to respond to the individual and varying needs of the children in the home.
- To promote and provide children with opportunities to develop a sense of independence, autonomy and responsibility.
- To encourage the Children to build and maintain relationships through positive engagement, coaching and mentoring.
- To ensure that good administrative and professional systems are in operation.
- To maintain good communicative and co-operative relationships with parents, field social workers, consultant staff and others concerned with the welfare of the Children.
- To undertake sleep-in duties as required by the staff rota.
- To comply with the Childrens' Homes Regulations 2015 and Quality Standards; The Children’s Act 1989 and other user Care Authorities.
- To keep detailed records on the day-to-day activities of the children.
- To contribute in the review, assessment, planning meetings and case conferences etc., for Children and ensuring that relevant reports (i.e. risk assessment, incident reports, key working sessions etc.) are written and made available to other agencies concerned.
- To ensure that the unit provides high standards of cleanliness, care comfort and homeliness.
- To accept responsibility, whenever applicable, for monies needed to carry out duties with Children.
- Have an in-depth undertaking of the Primary Care Process of Young People on a daily basis.
Requirements
- This is a physically demanding role.
- Staff need to have the confidence to manage a mix of challenging behaviours that children and young people may have.
- Flexibility in regards to your working hours.
- NVQ 3 in Children and Young People Workforce is preferable.
- Full Manual Driving licence.
- Safeguarding experience.
Contact:
This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more as we might have other roles applicable to you.
Due to the high volume of applications, we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award.
Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
