Night Residential Child Care Worker

The post available is for a Residential Child Care Worker (Waking Night’s) to work 21 hours per week over a three week static rotating rota, supporting children from the age of 5-17 years with a range of disabilities and complex needs.

The purpose of the role is to work as part of professional committed team with established Management support providing a homely nurturing environment to young people during the night who are receiving Short term breaks in a Residential Home whilst giving their parents and carers a break from the caring role.

You will support children with complex learning difficulties and a wide range of diagnosis of disabilities, children with communication difficulties, sensory impairments and complex health needs.

Challenging behaviors can occur within our setting, so to fully support our children the applicant will need to feel comfortable in the knowledge that situations can arise.

The successful candidate will be have previous experience of working with children and young people, ideally with children with complex needs.

This person will be committed to the care and supervision of young people and tending to their individual support needs during unsociable hours.

Their is an expectation that you will provide factually accurate recordings, which contribute to the service understanding of children’s needs and when and where required any evaluation of how best to support them., We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children/vulnerable adults. This post is subject to satisfactory reference history of at least two years, Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, medical clearance, evidence of any essential qualifications and proof of Right to Work in the UK in accordance with the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996.

The successful applicant will be required to work outside of a 7am to 8pm Monday to Friday work pattern and will receive an additional payment on top of the quoted salary as a result.

If you require any information on Care and Support recruitment opportunities, advice or support on completing applications: please contact Provider Peer Support and Resilience Team on 01253 478444 or Email providersupporthub@blackpool.gov.uk, This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and amendments to the exemptions order, which mean that certain offences are protected and do not need to be disclosed, guidance on the "filtering" of offences can be found at New filtering rules for DBS certificates (from 28 November 2020 onwards) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)