Our client is recruiting for Residential Support Workers to work waking night shift pattern! Our client is looking for enthusiastic, caring, and passionate people to become an integral part of the support team. In this role, you will support young people and be responsible for providing compassionate care during your time with them. The home is specialist college providing education to students with autism aged 16 to 25, they also offer specialist residential care to some of the students on a 38- or 52-weeks basis.
Experience isn't always essential but there are a few characteristics you will need to be successful in this role:
Resilience - We support some of the most vulnerable young people in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.
Communication - Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Positive working relationships, good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
Organisation - You'll need to be confident and organised in updating care plans and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.
Caring - Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
Attentive - No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.
Benefits include: exclusive access to reward and discount scheme, comprehensive induction, commitment to your ongoing training and career progression, pension scheme, paid for enhanced DBS, wellbeing support, cycle to work scheme and more!
All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years; for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within the service.
Salary: £23,234 - £24,066 (£11.17 - £11.57) DOE
Location: Southport
Employment type: Full time
Hours Per Week: Various
If you are interested in applying for this PERMANENT RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT WORKER ROLE in SOUTHPORT please email your up to date CV to Agata.Tylczynska@search.co.uk
Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.
