Residential Support Worker

Salary: £26,000.00 per annum (pro-rata)

Location: Aylesbury, Bucks.

Contract/Hours: Permanent – Part- Time 15 or 30 hours a week – shifts are set between 7am – 3pm or 2pm – 9pm and on a 4 weekly rota basis.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave.
• Professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.
• Free Parking

Why Action for Children?

We are one of the largest children’s charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK’s vulnerable children for over 150 years.

Find out more about Action for Children here: Action for Children and on LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

The difference is what you do. You can learn more about why we do it, by checking out our ”Driven by Love” video.

A bit about the role

Our Residential Support Workers create a safe and supportive environment for children and young people to grow and develop. You will ensure their wellbeing is prioritised by delivering personalised care, guidance, and advocacy. It is key that they stay safe and healthy and can reach their full potential.

Once you have gained the relevant experience and qualifications you will be ready to progress to the next step in your career with us.

About the service

The Grove is a residential Short Breaks home in Aylesbury that supports young people to achieve their potential, have fun and make friends within a safe supportive environment. We provide residential short breaks supporting young people with learning disabilities and complex health needs.

As a Residential Worker, you will be responsible for supporting young people aged 8-18, throughout their stay in The Grove short breaks home.

Your role will entail safeguarding young people, enabling them to reach their full potential, supporting with all their needs. You will be part of a fun, supportive and hardworking team that works as part of a rota working a variety of early, late and weekend shifts.

In this role you can bring their experience, can-do attitude and passion with you and help maintain the high standards already set by our wonderful team!

How you”ll help to create brighter futures

Provide lead case/care planning management, including assessing, reviewing and managing risk.

Co-ordinating responsibilities within the service, with multi agency and producing family information, including analysis and written reports.

Attendance at professional meetings including reviews, court work etc.

Leading shifts and guiding support workers.

Being resilient in supporting the young people through challenging situations.

Let”s talk about you, ideally you will have:

Demonstrable experience of working in a care setting and developing positive relationships through trust

Application of a range of techniques to co-ordinate and communicate with service users and their families.

Leader or shift leader experience.

Demonstrate a solution focused approach to address problems, individually and in a team setting.

Demonstrate emotional resilience to respond to the challenging nature of the role.

Possess a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or recognised equivalent) or if you do not possess this you must be prepared to complete this within 2 years.

Good to know.

Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Contact: Sarah Manderfield by email – [email protected] quoting reference 13228

This role requires a DBS/disclosure check

Diversity, equality and inclusion

At Action for Children, we”re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.

Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.

Job Description

See below for further information about working with us:

Action for Children Employee Benefits

AfC Commitment Statement