Residential Support Worker

Role: Residential Support Worker 

Salary: £24,309.07 per annum 

Location: Yatton, North Somerset

Contract/Hours: Permanent Full Time 37 hours a week. (Shift pattern)

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities.
• Supportive supervision.
• Free parking.
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
• Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover.
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.
• We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer.

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 X, LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube to get to know us better.

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.

In return we offer an in-depth induction and amazing opportunities for career progression. We'll enrol you on necessary industry qualifications along with regular supervision and team meetings to ensure you feel part of our team.

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:

Our Place is a 3-bed permanent residential home for children and young people aged between 8 – 18 who have various learning disabilities. Action for Children strive to create a homely and supportive environment where the children can thrive and develop by us supporting them with household tasks and all aspects of their care.

Here at Our Place, we focus on making sure the children's voices are always heard and pride ourselves on providing a collaborative and caring service. We work hard to ensure the children in our care are experiencing a safe and happy childhood in a friendly, warm, and inclusive environment.

This role will be working 37 hours a week, with a 2-week rolling rota drawn up in advance with every 2nd weekend off. Shifts are 7.30-20.00, 9.30-21.30 and sleep ins are 10.00 till 10.30 the next day. 

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.

Let's talk about you.

• 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.
• 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 of commencing employment with us, full support will be provided.

This is an exciting, challenging and rewarding role with the opportunity to make a huge personal impact. 

The successful applicant will have a real opportunity to work as part of a team, who will improve the outcomes of children and young people by providing safe, stable, and loving homes for them to live and thrive in.

We will actively support you in your role and provide you with regular supervision / APR process and specialist training including a commitment to achieve Level 5, Leadership and Management qualification from our newly developed Professional Development Centre

Contact: Sarah Manderfield on 01923 361743  or email us at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.org.uk quoting reference 11266

We are unable to offer Sponsorship for this role.

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.

Don't meet every single requirement? 

If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family. 

Job Description

See below for further information about working with us:

Action for Children Employee Benefits

AfC Commitment Statement

Action for Children - Driven by Love

Make a Difference - A Career in Residential Services