Residential Support Worker
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £11.64 to £11.87 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | Eligibility for a Blue Light Card giving access to a wide range of discounts. Company Sick Pay Scheme NEST pension (where eligibility requirements are met) 24 hour support via our Employee Assistance Programme 30 days holiday (including Bank Holiday entitlement) which increases with length of service. Further development through QCF qualifications is available and funded. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | SP10 2EG |
| Company: | Purple Oak Support |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 01HYJYZCJJK7AGEN9E1M5BVGZP |
Summary
We are currently recruiting Residential Support Workers to join our team! We have both permanent and bank opportunities available.
We're particularly interested to hear from individuals that have good availability to work across the weekend and school holidays.
Job Opportunity
Our Children’s Respite Home - Rainbow Corner
Rainbow Corner is a bright, colourful, and welcoming children’s home which proves daytime, weekend and overnight care for children and young people with additional needs, aged 3 to 19 years.
Rainbow Corner has 6 bedrooms and has been adapted to meet the physical needs of the children that stay with us. This means that we can provide care for children and young people who have multiple and profound learning disabilities, including those on the Autistic Spectrum, those with complex medical health needs and physical disabilities.
The ethos of Rainbow Corner is to provide a safe ‘home from home’ environment for all children whilst with us, maintaining a level of consistency for each individual child. Our colleagues continue with the children’s individual programmes such as sleep, mealtimes, behaviour, toileting, independence, emotional and social development related, in liaison with their school, parents and other relevant professionals.
About the role:
Our Residential Support Workers provide support and care to the children and young people staying at Rainbow Corner to ensure they remain safe and have all their needs met. Duties include:
- Ensuring that children and young people are supported in accordance with their placement plans.
- Support children and young people with all aspects of daily living and role model an exemplary approach to supporting those who access Rainbow Corner.
- Complete detailed records and feed into placement plan updates and risk assessments where necessary.
- Monitor the support needs, health or risks of each child and immediately inform the Registered Manager of any changes.
Weekends and school holidays are our busiest times where our service runs around the clock! During the week our shifts typically start from 2pm with the opportunity to pick up Sleep In shifts where available.
Essential Skills
About you:
We’re looking for people who share our values and want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people with learning disabilities. To be successful in this role you’ll need:
- To be able to build great relationships with the children and young people we support.
- To have a great sense of fun and willingness to try new things.
- You’ll also need to have great communication skills (both verbal and written) and work well within a team.
- The ability to reflect on your own performance, learn from feedback and have a commitment to your own development.
- And, if you don’t already hold a Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare you’ll need to be willing to work towards it (we’ll cover the funding!
Due to the nature of the role, successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS, and our safer recruitment process. If you have any questions regarding this, please highlight these in your application.
Please note, sponsorship opportunities are not available.
About Company
Purple Oak Support have been serving the communities of Andover and the surrounding areas for over 55 years. What started out as a concerned group of parents whose children has a learning disability, has now turned into a charity which provides supported living services, domiciliary care, community support and children’s respite.
We are continuously building on our successes and developing our services to support the people in our community. We put the needs and wishes of the people we support at the heart of what we do and always strive to grow and excel, raising awareness of, and changing attitudes surrounding learning disabilities, physical disabilities and mental health within our community.
We are committed to safe and fair recruitment, safeguarding and protecting those we care for and serve. We make sure all our staff are vetted, selected, trained, and supervised fairly and to a high standard so that they can provide safe, effective, and compassionate care
Benefits
- Eligibility for a Blue Light Card giving access to a wide range of discounts.
- Company Sick Pay Scheme
- NEST pension (where eligibility requirements are met)
- 24 hour support via our Employee Assistance Programme
- 30 days holiday (including Bank Holiday entitlement) which increases with length of service.
- Further development through QCF qualifications is available and funded.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme