Senior Residential Youth Worker

Location Wellingborough
Job type Permanent
Salary £26,375 - 29,646 per year
Reference 203443

Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency has a new permanent position available for a Senior Residential Youth Worker to work full time based in a Children’s home in Wellingborough

The salary for this permanent Senior Residential Youth Worker job is up to £29,646

Main Duties:

  • To act as a key worker for a number of young people ensuring care plans are actioned and developed to ensure the physical, emotional and social wellbeing of the individual. This should be done in consultation with the young person and other interested parties
  • Work with all clients of the unit carrying out care plans to ensure that their physical, emotional and social well-being is cared for and feeding back information to relevant key workers as appropriate. This will include undertaking assessments, admission and discharge arrangements in accordance with departmental policies
  • Provide services and counsel individually and/or in groups to facilitate implementation of care plans in more complex situations
  • Maintain effective administration records including reports, reviews, records etc and ensuring that all documentation is always accurate and up to date
  • Pursue appropriate staff development and training programmes, which will enable the post holder to undertake their duties in a professional manner and in accordance with Unit/Departmental policies. This includes attendance at Staff Meetings
  • Share, where necessary, in the normal domestic work and activities of the unit to ensure it’s adequate functioning aiming to create a normal living environment for the clients, having due regard for Food and Hygiene Legislation
  • Supervise staff in accordance with the department’s formal supervision system and/or provide indirect supervision (by giving day to day advice and guidance) to enable staff to operate more effectively, enhancing their knowledge, skills and performance

Requirements of this job:

  • Level 3 Residential Childcare qualification or equivalent
  • A minimum of 1 years’ experience working within Children’s residential care
  • Driving Licence
  • Direct involvement in Ofsted inspections

Contact:

This job is advertised by Harry Smy; 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, Sanctuay 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.