We have an excellent opportunity for a Residential Therapeutic Care Support Worker to join our clients highly committed team at their residential home in Brampton, Cumbria. Positions are also available in Carlisle.  The team have a warm and approachable manner and feel they can make a significant impact on a young person’s life in how they recover from early life experiences.

About the company
Our client is a well-established local provider of residential care and education for boys aged 6-18 who improve the resilience, self-esteem and abilities of all the young people they work with.

About the role
As a Therapeutic Care Support Worker there is a high expectation placed on you to be “strong, committed and passionate” about your role. The young people are at the centre of everything theydo - both for and with them. You are a role model, a listening ear, a warm and approachable person and potentially someone who could inspire and make a massive and significant impact on a young person’s life, their choices, who they are and who they can be! You need to promote, support and facilitate the creation of “happy memories” and have fun with them to do so.

About the responsibilities
In the role of Therapeutic Care Support Worker you will be:

Supporting

• All of the boys daily routines, including getting them up, promoting personal hygiene routines, meals, either school runs or activities
• Room cleans/developing of life skills/independence, promoting socialisation and supporting bed-time routines
• Plans on the activity planners

Completing

• Day sheets for the boys and working with them on their targets
• Handover documents/ tasks
• All daily paperwork
• Budgeting requirements
• Daily room checks and daily housecleaning tasks
• Food/other shopping needs, including meal preparation and kitchen hygiene/laundry duties
• Specific checks such as COSHH, Fire Checks/Car checks

Generally

• Attending medical/other appointments
• Liaising and building appropriate relationships with the families, working to find out about special dates for boys and ensuring these are noted/marked, sorting and planning family time contacts
• Your role will also include being a Keyworker. This should be a privileged role for you with the boys, try to think out of the box and do that little bit extra to help create special occasions and opportunities for them, build strong bonds, show and display warmth, empathy and genuine care.

About you
To be successful for the role of Therapeutic Care Support Worker, you will have / be:

• Flexibility in your availability is a must as the role will involve sleep in nights and shift work of 14 hours – typically 2 full days on, 2 days off. Rotating start times of 08:00, 12:00, 14:00
• An understanding of the issues that face young people in care
• A Residential Childcare/Families Practitioner Diploma/Children and Young People's Workforce/NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent – or be willing to work towards a required qualification
• Excellent communication and listening skills
• Willing to learn
• Able to work well as part of a small team
• Willing to undertake a DBS check (paid for by the organisation) at enhanced level if successful for the position
• A Residential Childcare/Families Practitioner Diploma/Children and Young People's Workforce/NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent – or be willing to work towards a required qualification

Experience with Emotional Behavioural Disorder, Social/Residential Work or Youth Work would be advantageous.

About the hours & rewards
The role of Residential Therapeutic Care Support Workers is Full Time/Permanent where you will work 42 hours per week.  The salary is:

• Unqualified: £24,658.80 annual salary, including sleep ins
• Qualified: £25,750.80 annual salary, including sleep ins

 This is a wonderful opportunity to join an established Children’s service who will offer you:

• A sleep-in allowance of £62.64 per night
• Up to 6 week’s holiday per year
• A rota pattern of 2 days on, 2 days off, with staggered start times ranging from 8am, 12noon or 2pm (i.e. 8am-10pm, 12pm-10pm or 2pm-10pm)
• All meals on duty are provided
• Company pension
• Access to an Exchange Employee Discount Scheme
• Access to wellbeing programmes via the Exchange Provision
• Comprehensive training programme, followed by a comprehensive and ongoing CPD Programme
• Access to qualifications (Including Diploma 3/Diploma 5)
• Promotion opportunities
• Monthly clinical and professional supervisions, access to therapeutic support

How to Apply
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You must have eligibility to work in the UK.   Please note, only suitable applicants will be contacted.  If your address and contact details are not on your CV, you will not be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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