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Waking Night Children’s Support Worker – Children’s Residential Homes
Job Title: Waking Night Support Worker
Job Type: Permanent / Part Time £19,000
Location: King’s Lynn, Norfolk
Start Date: ASAP
Hours: Nights from 22:00 to 08:00am
ARC is recruiting on behalf of our client for Waking Night Support Workers within a local children’s home in the Kings’s Lynn area. This service provides a safe and nurturing environment for children and young people with social, emotional, mental health and behaviour difficulties. We are looking for experienced individuals that can showcase resilience and will be able to manage challenging behaviour in a caring and considered manner and who want to make a positive impact and be part of the brilliant staff team.
The role
⦁ We are seeking dynamic and eager individuals to help support and nurture the children cared for.
⦁ You will need to be considerate, adaptable and resilient where no two days will be the same.
⦁ Monitor and maintain the safety of the home overnight, supported with a sleep-in member of staff, proactively support the children overnight when required, maintain the tidiness and cleanliness of the home.
⦁ Support in any behaviour management overnight and liaise with the on-call manager as required and provide clear handovers to the team in the morning for any follow up support required
⦁ To ensure the care given to the young people reflects the purpose
⦁ To provide advise and guidance to the young people and role model good practice always
⦁ To empower young people in positive decision making
⦁ To support care planning and behaviour management within the home
⦁ To ensure all events and incidents are logged and reported correctly
⦁ To demonstrate commitment to personal development and undertake any relevant training
⦁ To effectively be able to lone work and affectively lead the night shift, manager any incidents that may occur with support from the on-call manager
Essential Skills
Well-developed written and verbal communication
Behaviour management skills and Knowledge of safeguarding
Ability to manage unexpected situations
Must have an enhanced clean DBS for both adults and children
Must be able to demonstrate at last 6 months experience within the UK in this sector
Driving licence and own transport due to location of this role
Level 3 Diploma in Children’s workforce (or willing to undertake this qualification)
Company benefits
Company pension
Discounted or free food
Health & wellbeing programme
A competitive salary
Paid breaks
Company pension
Robust training program
Career progression
Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Program
Refer a Friend scheme
Discounts on shopping, brands and days out.
Being part of a business run with a sense of family values at its core
