Role: Children’s Residential Support Worker
Based: Leicestershire
Rate: £24,400 – 29,100 (dependent on experience and qualifications)
Start Date: ASAP – Jul/ Aug 2024
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours
Our client. one of the UK’s leading Children’s Charities, is looking to recruit several Children’s Residential Workers to work across their new Children’s Homes.
They are working in partnership with Leicestershire County Council to increase EBD residential provisions across the county and provide high quality support and care to some of Leicestershire’s most vulnerable children.
Role synopsis below:
Supporting young people with various emotional and behavioural difficulties in a trauma responsive way
Enabling young people to gain confidence and resilience and find ways to respond to and manage their self in relation to challenging behaviour
Supporting young people through 121 and group work with all their practical and emotional needs and regularly updating records and working closely to support them with all goals and aspirations
Working to establish strong, positive and consistent relationships with the children and young people
Creating a warm and homely environment attending to the practical matters e.g. cooking cleaning and general upkeep
Encouraging and enabling young people to attend education / training / activities and or work
Safeguarding and protecting the young people and demonstrate a good understanding of themes relating to child sexual and criminal exploitation
Working as part of a team collaboratively to meet the needs of individual young people and the home
Working from the guidelines from the 1989 Children’s Act, National Minimum Standards, care quality standards and any other relevant legislation
You will be working for a fantastic charity who truly place the children at the heart of their service and who value their employees. They offer excellent benefits and training and development opportunities and have been a joy to work with in the past.
Essential Requirements:
Must hold the Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare OR be willing to successfully achieve this within the required timeframe
Relevant experience working with children & young people in a children's home setting
Flexibility to commit to shift work, including weekends and bank holidays
Strong working knowledge of safeguarding and child protection
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
For more information, please call the team on (phone number removed) and ask to speak to Ria/ Lisa or email us your CV at
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