Residential Youth Support Worker

Vinney Green Secure Children's Home provides a safe, caring and structured environment where young people receive high-quality care, education and life skills support. As a Residential Youth Support Worker, you will play an important role in helping young people overcome challenges, build confidence and develop the skills they need to achieve positive outcomes. Through consistent support, guidance and positive role modelling, you will help young people develop their independence, self-control and resilience, enabling them to return to their communities in a more positive and purposeful way.

Vinney Green Secure Children's Home provides a safe, caring and structured environment where young people receive high-quality care, education and life skills support. As a Residential Youth Support Worker, you will play an important role in helping young people overcome challenges, build confidence and develop the skills they need to achieve positive outcomes. Through consistent support, guidance and positive role modelling, you will help young people develop their independence, self-control and resilience, enabling them to return to their communities in a more positive and purposeful way.

Working as part of a dedicated team, you will build strong professional relationships with young people, supporting their emotional wellbeing, personal development and day-to-day care needs. The role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful difference to the lives of young people, helping them to recognise their strengths, achieve their potential and work towards a brighter future.

• You will provide safe and consistent care and supervision to young people living within the home, ensuring their wellbeing while working within the regulations governing secure accommodation.
• Contributing to maintaining a safe and secure environment, you will follow and monitor established procedures, routines and recording requirements, while supporting compliance with health and safety legislation, including fire safety and evacuation procedures.
• It will be your responsibility to help safeguard young people from harm by identifying, assessing and responding to their individual needs, strengths and areas for development.
• A key aspect of your role will be building positive and professional relationships with young people, providing guidance, support and positive role modelling to encourage pro-social behaviour and support periods of change and transition.
• You will organise and participate in a range of activities that enrich the lives of young people, while also supporting their education through involvement in classroom learning, study sessions and homework activities.
• Through consistent boundaries and encouragement, you will help young people develop more positive behavioural responses, improve their decision‑making and build the skills needed to achieve successful outcomes both within the home and beyond.

• You will need to undertake training and development activity, including achieving the Level 3 RQF programme within an agreed timescale.
• It is essential that you have excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to accurately record and share important information and confidently use basic IT systems, including Microsoft Office.
• We are looking for someone who understands the challenges faced of working with young people with complex needs, alongside the ability to respond in a professional, non-judgemental and supportive manner.
• Ideally, you will have previous experience of working in a secure setting or with young people who present challenging behaviour.

• The salary is plus a secure unit…