Term-Time Night Support Worker - Special Education in Bournemouth

Night Support Worker - TERM TIME ONLY

Cambian Wing College, Bournemouth

Salary: £25,093.07

43.75 hours per week, 39 working weeks per year

The young people we educate and care for come to us with a huge variety of needs and difficulties. Our challenge is to help them build the hope, confidence, knowledge and skills to unlock their potential. From innovative educational experiences to national curriculum programmes, supported by passionate teams of specialists and key workers, we actively enable each young person to achieve their personal best, all in an environment that best suits them.

Wing College Cambian Wing College has a proud and successful tradition of supporting students between the ages of 16-25 who have needs of High-Functioning Autism and Complex Needs to gain valuable life skills, qualifications and confidence to support their onward journey towards independence.

You will have a vital role in helping our students develop skills for life. We don’t require any special qualifications for this role but you do need to share our passion to help our young people be the very best they can be. In return, our new and improved training programmes will help you develop your professional skills. You will also have the opportunity to learn from some of the most dedicated and inspirational people in our profession.

The Role

This caring role requires the ability to support our young people by providing physical and emotional care should it be required during the waking night. Our Night Support Workers provide a happy, secure, caring and effective environment in support of the waking day curriculum aims. Night Support Work is a vital role that supports all that can be achieved throughout the waking day. This includes working directly with the young people at times but also working behind the scenes completing essential tasks such as helping to maintain the highest standards of cleanliness in the home and domestic tasks such as ensuring the young people’s laundry is done.

As a Night Support Worker you will:

• Supervise and support young people in the home if they wake during the night and with their morning routines.
• Support young people with any prescribed emergency medication.
• Build and maintain positive professional relationships with staff and young people.
• Encourage and motivate young people to wake and prepare for their day.
• Demonstrate good communication skills including the ability to clarify and explain instructions clearly.
• Support young people’s emotional and physical wellbeing.
• Produce legible, accurate and prompt written reports/records.
• Help young people grow in their own sense of confidence.

If you want to learn from work with a highly specialist, incredibly proud and integrated team that unlocks the potential of young people who will challenge you, stand up to you, then trust you and ultimately move forward because of you, then please talk to us. We’d love to help you move forward too.

Cambian is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Cambian is committed to Safeguarding and protecting the young people and service users within our care. All candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check and reference checks. Cambian will conduct online searches of shortlisted candidates. This check will be part of a safeguarding check, and the search will purely be based on whether an individual is suitable to work with children. As care must be taken to avoid unconscious bias and any risk of discrimination, a person who will not be on the appointment panel will conduct the search and will only share information if and when findings are relevant and of concern.