At Protective Care Group we are looking for Support Workers to join our growing group dedicated to providing bespoke and tailor-made support for young people that are often deemed too extreme and vulnerable for the standard format of care. Our young people are at the heart of everything we do, so it is only right that this advert is about them too.
In this role, our young people want their Support Workers to:
* Support them with their day to day lives
* Provide them with guidance, coaching and mentoring (although don't take it personally if they do the opposite repeatedly, you were a child once too!)
* Remind them that you care and never give up on them no matter how extremely challenging the behaviour they send your way is (and it will be, including physical aggression, verbal aggression, absconding, self-harm and sexualise behaviours)
* Provide them with a consistent, homely and safe environment to grow and develop
Requirements
Our young people don't really mind what work experience their Support Workers have, so we'll follow their lead, and are open to considering candidates with or without experience working with vulnerable people. Ultimately for our young people, they want their Support Workers to:
1. Be playful, accepting, curious and empathetic at the right times
2. Confidently and calmly de-escalate situations and behaviours that are challenging for our young people i...