Waking Night Residential ARC Worker

Hertfordshire County Council believes in keeping young people close, to enable them to maintain their identity, and to maintain links with the community to which they belong, this in turn allows us to support these young people, their families, and friends.

This waking night role will be based across 6 of Hertfordshire residential children’s homes according to the needs of the home at that time. The post holder will work as part of each homes dedicated, well established and friendly residential team ensuring consistency and promoting safety for children over the night time periods.

About the role

This role will require you to support children at night across a variety of homes. This support is different in all of the homes and will include some personal care.

You will also support the children with overnight tasks which may include:

• Supporting children to talk

• Completing observations

• Supporting children at the hospital

• Supporting with personal Care

• Monitoring sleep patterns

• Welcoming a child home

• De-escalating conflict

• Celebrating success.

The role also includes a variety of record keeping and supporting the team to keep the home clean and homely.

• Passion for working with children.

• Ability to learn and implement training.

• Flexible and innovative to meet challenges.

• Post is for waking nights however postholder will need to be available for training during the day at intervals throughout the year.

• Willing to work across Hertfordshire at various different locations such as Hertford, Welwyn Garden City, Baldock, Stevenage and Watford.

• Full Driving Licence and business insurance.

• Experience of working with children or caring for children and young people

Desirable:

• Hold Diploma level 3/ 4 Health and social care.

This role is an exciting challenge for the right person. Working across several teams and with many children requires you to be flexible, creative and be able to adjust your approach to the individuals you will meet and support.

Night time can often be a difficult time for our children and having the right person with them helps to manage their previous traumas.

Hertfordshire provides all residential staff with extensive training to learn the skills for our therapeutic and trauma informed approach to looking after children., This role has been identified as requiring a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Driving required

You’ll need to have the ability to drive and/or travel around Hertfordshire, either using your own mode of transport or a company car to travel to other locations.

English Fluency

The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required).

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Kathryn Gentry (Kathryn.Gentry@hertfordshire.gov.uk) if you have any question or queries about the role.

Interview Date: W/C 27th January and W/C 3rd Feb

How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.