Part-Time Residential Support Worker
Children's Residential Homes

Job Description
We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Part-Time Residential Support Worker (18.5 hours per week) with experience in complex needs to join a supportive team within a Children's Residential Home in Leeds.

Details

• Permanent position


• Part-time (18.5 hours per week)


• Salary starts at £26,421 per annum (pro-rata)

Purpose
As a Residential Support Worker, you will be responsible for providing high-quality care and support to children in residential care, ensuring they are loved, happy, healthy, safe from harm, and able to develop, thrive, and fulfil their potential.

Your expertise in complex care will play a key role in supporting children with diverse needs.

Responsibilities
The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Assist children in residential care to develop emotionally, educationally, and behaviourally, particularly those with complex care needs


• Foster positive relationships with children and staff in the home


• Support children's emotional, mental, and physical health needs, with a particular focus on those with complex behavioural or emotional difficulties


• Work with a wide range of professionals, families, and communities to ensure holistic care for each child


• Provide a safe, stimulating, and loving environment for children to flourish in

Requirements
The ideal candidate will have:

• Experience working with children or young people who have complex care needs, including emotional/behavioural difficulties


• Ability to manage complex and challenging behaviour in an assertive, restorative, and sensitive manner


• Ability to work flexibly, including unsociable hours, shifts on a rota basis, and availability for weekend and bank holiday working

Apply Now
If you are passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of children and young people, and have experience in complex care, then this is the job for you.

Apply now to become a Residential Support Worker and join this dedicated team at the Children's Residential Homes in Leeds.

For further details or to express interest in this role, please contact Emily @ Service Care on 01772 208964 or email emily.bentley@servicecare.org.uk

Benefits of working for Emily @ Service Care Solutions:

• A specialist, dedicated Social Work consultant offering a single point of contact


• Exceptional referral bonuses


• An extensive & exclusive range of Social Work vacancies across the UK


• Nationwide provider of Social Work staff to over 200 local authorities


• Frequent notifications for upcoming opportunities via text and email


• DBS disclosures provided via fast-track online services free of charge

Note: Do you know someone who is looking for work in this field? If so, please pass these details on to them.

If we are able to place them into work lasting over 13 weeks, we will happily pay you a £250 referral bonus.