residential children's support worker.

Therapeutic Care

Our client provides high quality specialist services for children who have experienced sexual trauma and/or abuse. They currently have teams in over 19 residential homes across the Northwest, Shropshire, Wales, and Yorkshire, operating from a Head Office in Cheadle, Greater Manchester.

The Role

Can you be the difference in a child's life

We want those who can provide advice, assistance, and support to young people, safeguarding their welfare at all times. To attend to their practical, physical, and emotional needs. To act as an appropriate role model and to work closely with them to enable them to address their difficulties and achieve their optimum potential.
You would also work with the Clinical Team to promote, deliver and create a Therapeutic Environment.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Provide care for young people through:

• Attending to practical matters in relation to childcare (cooking, cleaning etc)
• Establishing positive relationships with young people and always offering them unconditional and positive regard
• Meeting the physical, emotional, behavioural, cultural, and educational needs of young people
• Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate pro-social ways of dealing with problems
• Helping young people gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behaviour and rewarding acceptable, pro-social conduct.
• Ensuring that each young person's care plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs

The Ideal Candidate will have:

• Basic knowledge of Quality Standards, Regulation and Industry
• Awareness of Equal Opportunities/ADP issues
• Team Building Skills
• Ability to work within teams effectively
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to motivate and enthuse Others
• Caring and passionate nature
• A want to learn and grow

Desirable but not essential:

• Current driving licence
• Diploma Level 3 Children and Young People Workforce or NVQ equivalent Counselling Skills
• Training Skills
• Drugs Awareness Training
• Therapeutic Parenting Experience

Benefits

• An attendance bonus of £100 every 3 months
• Paid for therapeutic qualifications for all colleagues to support development
• Support with career progression
• Simply health cash back scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Flexible schedule
• Onsite parking

Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.

Did you know that Randstad Care have been awarded a place on the National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS? This means we will be able to bring you more opportunities within nursing & midwifery and clinical staffing.