Residential Support Worker
- Recruiter
- Recruitment Genius
- Location
- Folkestone
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 23 May 2017
- Closes
- 31 May 2017
- Sectors
- Education & Teaching, Support
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Full time Care-Support Workers / Team Leaders
Folkestone, Kent
PLUS Term time only - AM position - Care-Support Workers required - 7 - 9.30 - Monday - Friday,
Salary Neg
This Therapeutic Community provides an integrated package of therapeutic care, education and therapy for children and young people who have experienced trauma.
The age range is 5 to 18 years.
Duties will include:
- working as part of a team to provide a 'secure' base that delivers consistent routines and nurturing boundaries;
- supporting young people to work through trauma and to make positive changes in their behavioural & emotional difficulties with the objective of integrating them back into mainstream provisions;
- catering for the individual day to day child care; recreational; health and general development needs of the young people;
- serving as a key-worker and an advocate;
- administrative tasks.
Candidate requirements:
- ideally will have experience of working with challenging behaviour;
- Level 3 Diploma or equivalent in Workforce with Children & Young People or a willingness to undertake this qualification;
- ability to work with and understand trauma and the associated therapeutic needs with the empathy and commitment to enable these young people to recover from trauma and reach their potential;
- ability & willingness to undertake diverse and comprehensive training;
- ability to work within a team, sharing knowledge & learning together;
- driving licence would be an advantage.
Career development:
- a considerable amount of training will be provided. This will include ongoing therapeutic child care based on psychodynamic/systemic/attachment theory and practice.
Salary: dependent upon qualifications and experience
The full-time hours of work are based on a shift pattern with up to 2 sleep ins per week
Folkestone, Kent
PLUS Term time only - AM position - Care-Support Workers required - 7 - 9.30 - Monday - Friday,
Salary Neg
This Therapeutic Community provides an integrated package of therapeutic care, education and therapy for children and young people who have experienced trauma.
The age range is 5 to 18 years.
Duties will include:
- working as part of a team to provide a 'secure' base that delivers consistent routines and nurturing boundaries;
- supporting young people to work through trauma and to make positive changes in their behavioural & emotional difficulties with the objective of integrating them back into mainstream provisions;
- catering for the individual day to day child care; recreational; health and general development needs of the young people;
- serving as a key-worker and an advocate;
- administrative tasks.
Candidate requirements:
- ideally will have experience of working with challenging behaviour;
- Level 3 Diploma or equivalent in Workforce with Children & Young People or a willingness to undertake this qualification;
- ability to work with and understand trauma and the associated therapeutic needs with the empathy and commitment to enable these young people to recover from trauma and reach their potential;
- ability & willingness to undertake diverse and comprehensive training;
- ability to work within a team, sharing knowledge & learning together;
- driving licence would be an advantage.
Career development:
- a considerable amount of training will be provided. This will include ongoing therapeutic child care based on psychodynamic/systemic/attachment theory and practice.
Salary: dependent upon qualifications and experience
The full-time hours of work are based on a shift pattern with up to 2 sleep ins per week