Residential Worker

As a member of the homes multi-disciplinary team, you will play a key role in the provision of innovative short break services for children and young people with learning disabilities. As part of that your main responsibility will be ensuring that day to day care and therapeutic procedures are of the very highest standards. This job will include shift and weekend working and is part time up to 25 hours.
Main Responsibilities

In this role you will:

• Operate as part of a team to provide day to day support and care to children and young persons resident in the centre in ensuring their individual social, emotional, cultural, religious, and recreational needs are met.


• Under the direction of more senior staff, to take responsibility for activity programmes and aspects of individual young person's care plans.


• Assist the management team in ensuring that the care provided in the establishment is within current legislation, departmental policies, procedures, practice guidelines and is also appropriate to the assessed needs of the resident children and young people, taking into account race, gender and disability.
  
  An understanding of the Quality Standards for Children's Homes 2015 along with an appreciation of the associated frameworks and legislation relevant to the improvements of outcomes for looked after children.


• Experience of working in a residential setting is desirable.


• You'll have a NVQ or QCF level 3 in Caring for Children and Young People or reflect a commitment to undertake the qualification on appointment.


• You should have a full clean UK driving licence and be willing to drive the young people in the local authority vehicles., Disability Confident

About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

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