Job Ref: 214149457

Date: 2021-07-07 16:05:12

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The Vines (High Wycombe), Buckinghamshire
Circa Salary £22,700
Permanent, Full-Time 37 hours per week, working alternate weekends.

Giving children and young people the foundations they need to thrive.

The role

We are hiring for an experienced and resilient Residential Worker to join a small and friendly team at the Vines.
We enable young people to stay for short breaks aged between 11-19 years with learning disabilities. We work with 5 families however offer a larger package of care.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced, enthusiastic and proactive individual to join a growing and developing team!

Action for Children offer an excellent training programme and the opportunity to work towards a professional qualification. If this sounds of interest, we look forward to hearing from you!

You will make a difference by:

– Taking a lead with case/care planning management for individual children or young people, undertaking assessment of need, developing a care plan and identifying agreed outcomes and carrying out regular review in conjunction with children, young people and their families and other professionals.

-Leading and working on shifts with accountability for service delivery, assessing and managing risks, deploying staff and resources accordingly while on the shift and to maintain personalised high quality care.

-Supervising, guide or direct staff and volunteers where required and provide mentoring to newly appointed staff.

-Supporting children and young people in their personal care, administration of medication and clinical procedures in line with Action for Children's policy and procedures and regulatory requirements.

-Building and maintaining professional positive working relationships by providing emotional and social support to children and young people who can display challenging emotional and social difficulties.

-Ensuring all records, paper and electronic, are maintained and duly uploaded into the appropriate database.

-Undertaking assessment of children and young people co-ordinating multi agency and family information, analysing and producing reports; attendance at professional meetings including reviews, court work.

You will need:

– Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent to be achieved within 2 years of taking up the post.

– Experience of working in a care setting and developing positive relationships through trust.

– Writing clear and concise notes and providing updates to colleagues and senior colleagues.

– Willingness to continue to develop through on the job training or attendance at external or online courses.

– Demonstrating a solution focused approach to address problems and doing this individually and in a team setting.

– Demonstrable emotional resilience to respond to the challenging nature of the role.

– Demonstrable administrative skills

– Proven ability to organise, plan and deliver on agreed work targets and expectations.

– Working on a shift basis as required.

The way we work

We work to make sure every child and young person has the love, support and opportunity they need to reach their potential. If you share the same vision, we want you to join our team.

Rewards

We want our employees to feel valued and rewarded for the vital work they do. When you work with us, we'll recognise your efforts with generous annual leave, a comprehensive employer-matched pension scheme and a range of deals and discounts on our dedicated benefits portal.

For safe and happy childhoods

At Action for Children, we protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support, ensuring their voices are heard, and campaigning to bring lasting improvements to their lives. Last year, we helped more than 387,000 children and families across the UK.

We are committed to safer recruitment practices to protect our service users; therefore, all applicants are expected to have an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding best-practice.

Action for Children is passionate about promoting equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons particularly people with Disabilities and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic applicants, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce

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