Waking Night Support Worker
The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.
Children's Residential Care
Milton Keynes
£16.75 per hour
Full-time | Permanent
Waking Nights
We are recruiting a compassionate and reliable Waking Night Support Worker to provide safe, consistent overnight care for children and young people with emotional, behavioural and complex needs.
As a Waking Night Support Worker, you will:
- Provide safe, nurturing overnight care.
- Complete welfare checks and respond to incidents.
- Follow individual care plans and safeguarding procedures.
- Build positive relationships with children and young people.
- Support positive behaviour using trauma-informed approaches.
- Support emotional, behavioural and complex needs.
- Complete records, reports and handovers.
- Administer medication where trained and authorised.
- Work closely with the wider residential childcare team.
- Maintain a safe, clean and homely environment.
About You
- Caring, reliable and emotionally resilient.
- Calm and confident under pressure.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to work independently on waking night shifts.
- Passionate about supporting children and young people.
- Understanding of safeguarding and child protection.
- Full UK driving licence.
Desirable: Experience in children's residential care, supporting challenging behaviour, trauma-informed care/PBS, and Level 3 Residential Childcare or willingness to work towards it.
Interested?
Apply with your CV in Word format.
Right to Work: You must already have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship.
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