Night Senior Residential Support Worker

Average

Working Hours:

To work on two-week full time rolling rota on 12 hours shift, which includes a full day training every six weeks. Night hours are (8.00pm – 8.00am) working an average of 43.1 hours per week.

The night senior care support worker will work alongside the night team leader, to support and monitor care support workers within the home, the school and whilst undertaking offsite activities to ensure that they carry out their duties in an effective manner in order to safeguard that a stable, happy and caring environment that puts the health, safety and welfare of our children and young people first is maintained.

The job also involves supporting and overseeing that our children physical, cultural, social and emotional development, using a person-centred approach in order that they can achieve their full potential is maintained at all times.

Please kindly note that Witham Prospect School has frozen the Skilled Worker Sponsorship Scheme, as such the organisation will not be able to sponsor any candidate who is requiring to be sponsored.

• Full funded DBS Checks.
• Death in Service Insurance Scheme.
• Private Health Care Insurance Scheme.
• Time and a Quarter from Monday
  -Friday and Time and Half for Weekend and Bank Holiday Overtime.
• Enhanced rates of pay for relevant RQF/NVQ/QCF qualifications.
• Meals provided for staff on Day Shifts if they are working with children and the young people.
• A fully paid two weeks induction prior to working with children and young people.
• Refer a Friend Scheme Bonus (payment of £500 on successful completion of 6 months).
• 24 Hours access to our Employee Counselling Support through our Employee Assistance Programme (Health Assured).
• Extensive training aimed at developing and enhancing skills further through the completion of fully Paid training day as part of your rota.
• Fully Funded a minimum of RQF level 3 or Equivalent diploma award in Health and Social Care – Residential Childcare (if not already achieved).
• Loyalty Bonus (£500 annual salary length of service award upon completion of each 5 years).
• Fully paid day off on staff Birthday (subject to satisfactory attendance in the preceding 12 months).

• Must already hold at least level 3 NVQ or QCF for Children’s and Young People’s workforce in Health & Social Care.
• Must have an excellent understanding and experience working with children and young people with learning disability, autism and other complex care needs.
• Previous experience as a senior care support worker.
• Effective communication and motivation skills.
• Excellent leadership and supervising skills.
• Ability to work as directed and complete tasks to high standards.
• Must be enthusiastic, confident and resilient also be able to manage challenging behaviour.
• Medication administration trained and experience.
• Excellent knowledge of Ofsted requirement.
• Excellent working knowledge of safeguarding procedures and how to follow it.
• Able to act in a professional manner at all times ensuring professional boundaries are maintained.

• Ready to commit to the role in its entirety.
• Committed to valuing diversity and promoting equality for all.
• Willingness to work flexibly and to keep knowledge and skills up to date.
• Driver not essential but will need to be able to get to school location for work.
• All applicants must be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure Checks (DBS).
• Applicants who have resided or worked oversea in the last 5 years must obtain a good conduct certificate (or equivalent) from the country they have been resident.

Witham Prospect School is an independent specialist residential care and education organisation that provides exceptional residential care and education to meet the needs of children and young people aged between 11 and 19 years who have severe and profound learning disabilities and who may also be on the autism spectrum, have complex care needs and behavioural concerns. We are situated on the outskirts of Norton Disney in Lincolnshire.

Our ethos is to provide warm, safe and nurturing environments where children and young people entrusted to us are supported and enabled to achieve their full potential in all areas of their social, emotional, physical and academic development.

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Full details and online application. Witham Prospect School is looking to appoint Day Residential Support Workers who are enthusiastic, dedicated, caring and highly motivated to support children and young people.