Residential Support Worker

Role: Residential Support Worker (Waking Nights)

Location: Headington, Oxford.

Salary: £26,500 per annum (dependant on qualifications and experience)

Contract/Hours: Permanent Full Time - 30 hours a week, shifts are from 9:30pm to 7:30am.

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave PLUS bank holidays, with up to 5 additional days for continuous service and option to buy or sell leave
• Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discount portal and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts.
• As part of our commitment to staff wellbeing, you’ll receive a paid annual Wellbeing Day to use however you choose, supporting a healthy balance between work and life.

At Action for Children, we offer more than just a job. Join us and you’ll be part of a team dedicated to giving children safe and happy childhoods. See how your skills can make a real difference, helping solve the problems children and young people face every day.

A bit about the role

As a Residential Support Worker (Waking Nights), you’ll provide emotional and practical support to young people, helping them feel safe, settled and supported overnight. Your main priority will be maintaining a calm, secure environment, following safeguarding procedures, managing behaviours and responding to any incidents.

Once our young people are settled, you’ll also use quieter periods to help prepare the home for the day ahead ensuring everything is safe, organised and ready for the day team.

Central to our mission is the delivery of tailored, therapeutic care that acknowledges and responds to the profound impact trauma can have. 

What you do could make a difference

You will play a vital role in helping young people in our service, working closely with them to understand and meet their unique needs.

• Support the Young People to achieve positive outcomes.
• Be an advocate for the wellbeing of the young people.
• Working with the wider team and other professionals to share information and contribute to reports.
• Taking responsibility on the night shift to help ensure a safe, high-quality service.
• Supporting and guiding colleagues where appropriate, following policies and procedures.
• Helping to deliver consistent, round-the-clock care in line with regulation.

Let’s talk about you. 

In this role, you'll contribute to our vision of ensuring safe and happy childhoods. To achieve that real change to vulnerable children, young people, and families, there'll be certain qualities that you will have.

• A sound awareness of safeguarding
• Flexibility to work night shifts.
• A commitment to going that extra mile
• Ability to ‘hit the ground running’.
• Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare (or recognised equivalent).
• Experience and training in safeguarding.
• Experience of working with children with challenging behavioural/emotional and complex needs.
• An innovative and creative approach to problem solving

• Experience in managing and prioritising work.

Why Action for Children?

Every child should have a loving home, food, warmth, the chance to grow and learn - the support to cope with life’s challenges. But too many children don’t. By bringing your passion and unique skills and experience, you’ll help us change that where it really matters.

We've been driven by love to take action for children for over 150 years, giving them the protection and practical help they need. A lot’s changed since 1869. But what children really need, hasn’t. So as long as children need us, we’ll be here.

Will you join us?

About the Service:

Viking House is an overnight 6 bedded short break residential service, suitable for children and young people up to the age of 18 years of age with physical and/or learning disabilities, to include complex health and behavioural care needs.

The centre provides a structured environment and nursing care as a nurse within the service you will give parents and carers the opportunity to ‘recharge their batteries' in the knowledge that their child is in a safe and stimulating environment.

How to apply

If you require any support to apply, please contact: Sarah Manderfield at recruitmentservice@actionforchildren.orgquoting reference 13993

Our Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism

At Action for Children, we are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and able to thrive. We know that racism and discrimination create barriers, and we are taking active steps to challenge these inequalities in our organisation and in the communities we serve.

We strongly welcome applications from people who are Black, Asian, or from other racialised and ethnically marginalised communities, as well as disabled people, who are currently under-represented in our workforce. We are committed to removing barriers in our recruitment processes and ensuring fair access to opportunities.

We also encourage applications from men, who are under-represented in our Children’s Services roles. We recognise that people hold multiple identities, and we value the richness this brings to our team.

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