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Posted:
26.03.2025
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10.05.2025
Job Description:
Salary: £25,000 per annum
Contract/Hours: Permanent / Part time - 21 hours - Waking Nights - 9.30pm to 8am, 2 nights a week, with weekend work included
* 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
* Gain professional qualifications and excellent training/development opportunities
* Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
* Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
* Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
* We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer
We are one of the largest children's charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK's vulnerable children for over 150 years.
A bit about the role
Join our fantastic, dedicated team at Tayavalla in Camelon, Falkirk, as a Residential Support Worker. Your role is crucial in creating a safe and supportive environment for children and young people to flourish. Prioritising their wellbeing, you will provide personalised care, guidance, and advocacy to help them reach their full potential.
At Tayavalla, we believe in investing in our team. You can expect a comprehensive induction, career progression opportunities, and support for industry qualifications. Regular supervision and team meetings ensure you are integrated and valued within our team. As you gain experience and qualifications, you'll be prepared to advance in your career with us.
Short breaks are a chance for disabled children and young people to have fun, gain independence, learn and develop while families get to take a much-needed break. We cater to children and young people with complex health care needs and disabilities. We promote inclusion by engaging them in the wider community through outings and stimulating activities, fostering a fun and enriching environment for all.
We believe every disabled child and their family should have the right to short breaks. We're here to help make that happen, by offering flexible and accessible support.
How you'll help to create brighter futures
Some key responsibilities of the Residential Support Worker are:
* Provide lead case/care planning management, including assessing, reviewing and managing risk
* Co-ordinating responsibilities within the service, with multi-agency and producing family information, including analysis and written reports
* Attendance at professional meetings including reviews, court work etc.
* Supporting children to achieve positive outcomes.
* Adopting approaches in line with the principles of The Promise
* Assisting the children in all aspects of their care and supporting their health and wellbeing.
Let's talk about you
Are you resilient and have a positive approach to change and challenge? We are looking for someone with a 'can do' attitude to join our team. Ideally you will have:
* Demonstrable experience of working in a care setting and developing positive relationships through trust
* Application of a range of techniques to co-ordinate and communicate with service users and their families
* Demonstrate a solution-focused approach to address problems, individually and in a team setting
* Demonstrate emotional resilience to respond to the challenging nature of the role
* To possess Higher National Certificate in Social Care (or recognised equivalent) and an SVQ3 in Social Care - Children and Young People or if you do not possess this you must be prepared to complete this within 3-5 years of commencing employment with us, full support will be provided
Good to know
* If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Jessica Jarvis quoting reference 11033. We'll be happy to give you any support you require.
* We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
* At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
* Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
Please click on the below links to find out more about this role and Action for Children:
* Job Description
* Action for Children Employee Benefits
* AfC Commitment Statement
* Action for Children's story
* Make a Difference - A Career in Residential Services
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