Residential Childcare Worker

• Creating and maintaining an environment that is homely, warm, welcoming and positive through cleaning, tidying, organising and cooking etc.

• Establishing positive relationships and always offering unconditional and positive regards

• Constantly meeting the physical, emotional, behavioral, cultural and educational needs of our young people

• Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate pro-social ways to deal with problems

• Helping our young people to gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behavior and rewarding acceptable pro-social conduct

• Ensuring that each young person’s care plan is followed and innovated as appropriate to reflect their changing needs

• Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties to achieve their best outcomes

• Being friendly and positively ambitious for our young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential

• Supporting our young people in their education and pursuit of extra-curricular activities

• Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager

• Empowering our young people and facilitating their active involvement decisions where appropriate around their lives and future

• Acting as an advocate at meetings where the young person is the subject of discussion

• Encouraging our young people to develop links with the community, attend off-site activities and expand their personal social networks

Contribute to your team whilst demonstrating our values by:

• Being aware of the aims and objectives of the service and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them

• Attending team/staff meetings and making a positive and innovative contribution to them at all times

• Actively contributing to the development of the team

• Receiving and storing information to improve communication channels

• Be willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers

• Having awareness of childcare plans for all young people and providing support for colleagues by maintaining consistency in their execution

• Providing informal practical and emotional support to colleagues

• Attending and contributing to regular supervision sessions in line with National Minimum Standards

• Monitoring the conduct of colleagues and referring on any causes for concern (Whistleblowing)

• Maintaining familiarity with all policies and procedures and adhering to them

• Driving company vehicles safely at all times (current driving license holders subject to procedures)

• Receiving and engaging will all training appropriate to role and maintaining an up to date training profile

• Holding responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies

• Performing all other reasonable tasks as directed by the line manager

• Company pension

• Flexitime

• On-site parking

• Referral programme

• Sick pay