SENIOR RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT WORKER

Are you already an experienced Senior Residential Support Worker that wants to work amongst a team of totally dedicated professionals that strive only for the highest possible outcomes for our young people?

You will be hard working, loyal, and understand that only outstanding results for all our young people is the acceptable standard. You will need to demonstrate tenacity, patience, resilience, be full of energy and be able to exhibit compassion while holding firm boundaries.

You will be responsible to support our young people in their daily needs, ensuring that the highest standards of care are met regarding each young person’s physical, behavioural, and emotional needs. The role will include being responsible for leading the shift, rotas, health, and safety, attending meetings, submitting reports and capable of On Call duties.

Job description: Senior Residential Support Worker

Responsible to: Registered Manager

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £13.50 per hour dependent on experience/qualification plus sleep-ins. (£50 per sleep-in)

Shift patterns – Full time working long days plus extra sleep in (approx. 8-10 sleep ins per month)

Driver required/preferred

NVQ Level 4 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce (or equivalent).

Are you passionate about making a difference to the life of every child and young person through positive experiences?

Could you support children in a homely environment to meet their individual needs and overcome their challenges preparing them to live full and happy lives?

Then join us as a residential support worker and unlock your potential.

Why choose Nene Care for your career?

Nene Care provide innovative care and education services to children and young people who have complex needs, emotional and behavioural difficulties. We try and make every day extraordinary for the children we care for and support, because we believe in every single one of them.

As a Senior residential support worker, you will:

Be part of a caring team that provides a safe and loving home for children and young people, led and supported by a registered manager.

Provide the therapeutic care and support needed for each individual child.

Act as a positive role model to meet their everyday living needs,

Enjoy fun days out such as bowling and activities
Carry out household tasks such as cooking and cleaning
Provide emotional and physical support to allow the children to reach their full potential in sometimes challenging situations
Build friendships and trusting relationships
Help them to find pleasure in everyday tasks
Empower them to make decisions about themselves

As well as competitive pay and in-house professional support we provide and fully fund the necessary training to achieve valuable externally accredited qualifications.

Join us as a Senior Residential Support Worker at our Children’s home in Peterborough and you will receive:

Full induction and introductory programme
Fully funded training and qualifications
Enhanced pay scales that recognise both qualifications and experience
Free meals
Work Place Pension Scheme
Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check paid for by us (subject to employment contract)
28 days annual leave including Bank Holidays as a minimum.
Onsite parking

What do you need?

To be emotionally resilient with a passion to achieve outstanding outcomes for our young people.
Have a hands-on approach to the working environment with the ability to both manage up and interact positively with young people.
Have excellent presentation and report writing skills, be a passionate, enthusiastic, and hardworking individual who measures their successes by the number of young people they work with having positive outcomes.
Be extremely flexible, totally committed, be a staff motivator and have an incredible sense of humour.

We want people who are naturally caring, flexible and resilient.
Great communication skills, positive and energetic.
You need to be able to work flexibly in caring for the children. This will include working shifts and sleep-ins with full-time hours being available.
NVQ Level 4 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce (or equivalent).
Have experience of working with 8–18-year-olds in a residential setting along with achieving successful Ofsted inspection results.
To be over 21

Nene Care is committed to offering equal opportunities to all candidates and all candidates are subject to our safer recruitment policy

SENIOR RSW JOB DESCRIPTION

Job description Senior RSW

Responsible to Registered Manager

Job Type: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £21,294 – £22,916 (£10.23 – £11.30 per hour) dependent on experience/qualification plus sleep-ins. (£40 per sleep-in)

Shift patterns – Full time working long days plus extra sleep in (approx. 4-8 sleep ins per month)

Driver required/preferred

NVQ Level 3 Diploma for the Children and Young People’s Workforce.

Are you passionate about making a difference to the life of every child and young person through positive experiences?

Could you support children in a homely environment to meet their individual needs and overcome their challenges preparing them to live full and happy lives?

Then join us as a senior residential support worker and unlock your potential.

Why choose Nene Care for your career?

As a senior residential support worker, you will:

To support the registered manager in all aspects of the day-to-day running of the children’s home. Promoting a caring environment which provides young people with a high standard of specialised personal care, meeting individual needs and ensuring everyone is treated with respect and dignity and rights to privacy, independence and choice are met. To support the registered manager to supervise, monitor and evaluate the care delivered to young people, checking legal requirements are met along with keeping up to date with registration requirements.

Ket Responsiblities:

To undertake shift work as per staff rota and work as part of a team carrying out Senior Residential Support Worker duties.
To work under the direction of the Registered Manager (RM) and deputise for him/her as and when
To support the RM with the day-to-day running of all aspects of the home including; the standards and quality of care, recruitment and training issues, communication with the team, the premises of the Care Home and financial matters.
To recognise and assess individuals’ needs, involving relevant professional agencies and relatives where needed, in order to formulate personalised care plans for each individual.
To provide the highest level of personal care and attention to young people following individual care plans carefully and ensuring all contact is polite, friendly, warm and
Promoting the social and emotional wellbeing & development of young people and to consistently strive to further develop these skills.
Responsible for understanding and complying with statutory and legal requirements relevant throughout the home, including but not limited to, COSHH, Health and Safety, all aspects of the Health & Social Care Act to maintain a safe environment throughout the home.
To support the RM with the effective running of the home ensuring all legislation and regulations concerning environmental health, infection control, building control, planning

and health and safety are met and all risk assessments are regularly carried out (including fire checks) to meet the high standards expected in the Care Homes.

To keep up to date with all Quality standards, related legislation and inspection frameworks and implement as necessary. Contribute to inspections carried out by Ofsted and any external professionals as required.
Follow young people’s individual care plans, to administer medication to young people as prescribed, accurately maintaining appropriate records for both.
To be an active and encouraging Senior Support Worker, establish and maintain effective means of communication and good relationships with young people, relatives, employees in the home along with others externally such as professionals in the caring environment, outside suppliers,
To carry out regular assessments ensuring the Care Home is a friendly and supportive caring
To support young people with their personal financial arrangements, maintaining confidentiality of all information, and that any financial transaction is recorded and treated with the utmost honesty.
To support the RM with prospective/potential young people for the home including; providing relevant information and guided tours. Also, to welcome new young people, complete appropriate records and paperwork and ensure adequate arrangements are made for every
Liaising with other staff, parents and carers as necessary and maintaining high levels of
PROFESSIONALISM AT ALL
Promoting and safeguarding the welfare of the young people, and to regularly stay updated in relation to any changes within safeguarding legislation and policy.
To liaise and support education staff with the young person’s daily educational needs as
To carry out any other appropriate duties requested by the, Managing Director, Responsible Individual or Line manager.

The above list is indicative and not exhaustive. The Senior Support Worker is expected to carry out all such additional duties as are reasonably commensurate with the role.

Other Duties

To attend relevant internal and external meetings/training as
To participate in internal supervision and the Company’s annual performance appraisal process
AND UNDERTAKE RELEVANT STAFF
To be responsible for the health and safety of self and
Provide cover in other areas as
To make secure all buildings on leaving the
To carry out any other appropriate duties requested by the Registered Manager and respective line
To be responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people responsible for (or come into contact with) in accordance with the Home’s Safeguarding Policy &

As well as competitive pay and in-house professional support we provide and fully fund the necessary training to achieve valuable externally accredited qualifications.

Join us as a Senior Residential Support Worker at our Children’s home in Peterborough and you will receive:

Full induction and introductory programme
Fully funded training and qualifications
Enhanced pay scales that recognise both qualifications and experience
Free meals
A great employee Benefits programme
Work Place Pension Scheme
Enhanced DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check paid for by us (subject to employment contract)
28 days annual leave including Bank Holidays as a minimum.

What do you need?

We want people who are naturally caring, flexible and resilient.
Great communication skills, positive and energetic.
Experience and previous qualifications in the role are necessary.
You need to be able to work flexibly in caring for the children. This will include working shifts and sleep-ins with full-time and part-time hours being available.
NVQ level 3

Nene Care is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone in our care and therefore this post is subject to an enhanced DBS check.

Nene Care is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of the community.

Benefits:

Company pension
Discounted or free food
On-site parking

Wellness programme

Application question(s):

Are you willing and able to travel to work in Peterborough?

Licence/Certification:

Driving Licence (required/prefered)

Work Location: Peterborough

Apply Now

In the first instance please send your CV for consideration to info@nenecare.co.uk
or alternatively you can upload your CV and submit it using the below form