Children's Residential Support Worker - LD in Cheadle

Have you ever wanted to make a difference to the lives of vulnerable Children and Young People? Our children’s home in Gatley provides support for 3 children with autism, physical or learning disabilities. The young people are also likely to have communication, sensory and social difficulties.

The Together Trust is one of the North West’s leading charities, offering individual care, support, and education to hundreds of children, young people, and adults each year. We are a not-for-profit charitable trust, so every penny goes back into benefiting the people that we support.

You will be working in a caring home environment, nurturing, and supporting the young people we work with, helping them to overcome the issues they are facing. You will work with the team and the Registered Manager to give the support that these Children and Young People deserve to help make life better for them. The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people that we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The purpose of the role is for staff to support the individual with daily living, recreation, independence, personal care, communication, and community access. We are looking for a Residential Support Worker who can complete the full range of tasks required. Applicants with a full driving licence are preferred.

Location: Gatley

Hours: 37.5 Hours per week

Salary: £26,230 per year with an hourly rate of £13.45 per hour

Sleep in rate: £107.60 per shift

Enhanced pay for weekend shifts: Time and a quarter paid for weekend hours worked.

We also offer:

• Annual Leave: 27 days holiday plus 8 days bank holidays rising to 30 after 5 years, 33 days after 10 years
• Generous pension scheme and death in service benefit, up to 7% company pension contributions initially rising with length of service and up to 6 x basic salary death in service benefit.
• Occupational sick pay and family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoptive leave.
• Reward and Discount platform offering discounts at high street shops, travel, insurances etc.
• Eligibility to apply for Blue Light card
• Proud to be a real living wage employer
• Refer a friend scheme, be rewarded for recommending a friend to work with us
• Comprehensive training and development opportunities, including apprenticeship qualifications
• Long service awards including cash gifts and extra holiday.
• Promotion of Wellbeing across the organisation including Mental Health First Aiders offering wellbeing support from trained colleagues and free weekly yoga sessions in person or online
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and adults at your home

We also provide a caring, supportive environment for all our employees, with a strong emphasis on a good work/life balance.

Skills: Good communication and interpersonal skills. You’ll be expected to liaise with other staff, parents/carers, and professionals. Some previous experience of working in a residential setting along with flexibility to respond to the needs of the home. An ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team, taking the lead when required, maintaining & encouraging open and honest communication. You must have a good understanding of English and IT skills and be happy to complete all the paperwork and care plans to a good quality, which includes daily recording on IT systems (Clearcare) and other records such as incident reports. An enthusiastic, reliable and outgoing person with a level of maturity, skills and interests which can be utilised to engage the young people.

This service is regulated by Ofsted therefore all employees must be over the age of 22 years at the time of joining the service. Safeguarding checks will be undertaken for the successful candidate in line with our safer recruitment policy, including an Enhanced DBS check (at no cost to yourself). This role will involve regulated activity.

We may remove this advert should we find the successful candidate prior to the closing date therefore early applications are encouraged. We currently do not provide sponsorship, but we welcome applications from those who have the right to work in the UK.

Applications are very welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or socio-economic background. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments for disabled people. We positively encourage applications from those with lived experience.

If there is any part of your lived experience you want to keep confidential in some way please talk to the Recruitment or HR shared service teams and we will do what we can do to support you.

The Together Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the people we support and expects all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Skills: Autism Awareness; PBS; Positive behaviour support; Person centred care; learning difficulty.