Residential Support Worker
Barnet
£17/hr
Start date: ASAP
Full Time: Mon - Fri - 36 hrs a week
Hatched Recruitment is looking for a Residential Support Worker in the Barnet area. This is a newly opened children's home based in Hendon NW4. It is a 2-bed home, supporting 2 young people. Shift work and weekend work will apply. There is an onsite driveway to park. Enhanced DBS required.
Key Responsibilities
1. To work in a small team to support and implement the development of the children's home.
2. To enhance and effect change for the good of all children with whom they work by acquiring the necessary skills through their own training and development.
Key Tasks
1. To ensure that the young people's needs are recognized and met, ensuring they are free from discrimination within the home and challenging discrimination from outside the home.
2. To protect the young people from harm in and outside the home.
3. To assist the management in the home in compliance with Ofsted, legislation, and the ethos and policies of the company.
4. To exercise responsible control over the children to ensure their safety and well-being and assist them in developing acceptable standards of personal hygiene and behavior. This also applies to encouraging children to abide by house rules and principles.
5. To participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the individual young people's care plans.
6. In accordance with plans for the day, to organize and supervise recreational and leisure activities both in and out of the home to provide the children with an interesting and stimulating life, including being prepared to spend time away from home on holidays and camps.
7. To ensure positive participation in the children's home and attend training.
Organisational Responsibilities
* To undertake broadly similar duties commensurate with the level of the post as required by the Manager.
* To fulfill Health & Safety responsibilities.
* To work within the provisions of the Data Protection Act, observing strict confidentiality in relation to all aspects of work undertaken.
* The post holder will be expected to undertake training and development deemed necessary for the pursuance of the post.
* The post holder will be expected to competently use electronic systems effectively.
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