Children's Residential Support Worker

Children's Residential Support Worker - Runcorn - Permanent - Long day sleeps

Your new company
Hays Recruitment are proud to be working in partnership with a leading residential children's provider as they require three motivated and reliable support workers for a service in Runcorn. This service supports children and young people with learning disabilities and emotional and behaviours disorders with a working pattern that consists of long-day sleeps (10am - 10am) on a 1-on 2-off basis. This is a temporary to permanent contract meaning that a permanent contract is guaranteed for the right individuals!

Your new role
In your new role you will be supporting children and young people with emotional and behavioural disorders as well as learning disabilities. You will support the young people on a 1:1 and group basis, taking a person-centred approach as to ensure that they are not only treated as the individual they are, but their needs are met. As you will be working with young people that may sometimes present behaviours that challenge, you will need to build strong constructive relations. This will help to promote a safe, trusting, and professional environment for young people to develop. Other duties will include, but may not be limited to; emotional support, behavioural support, access to education, general household duties, promoting independence and building self-esteem.

What you'll need to succeed
In order to be successful with your application you must have full "Right to Work" in the UK as well as a minimum of 6 months referenceable experience supporting children/young people/adults in the last 2 years, as well as:

The ability to take a person centred approach to care

Be willing to work towards an NVQ Level 2 in Children and Young Peoples Health and Social Care

Have experience with or knowledge of LD and EBD

What you'll get in return
If you are successful with your application, you will have the full support, dedication, and guidance of a senior social care expert recruiter as well as a wide range of benefits, which include:

Free DBS

Free training

Access to exclusive vacancies

Career progression

Highly competitive hourly rate

Highly competitive sleep rate

Ongoing mentoring and support

Full holiday entitlement

Bank holiday pay uplift

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.
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