Unsted Park School & 6th Form are recruiting for a Senior Residential Support Worker. We are looking for enthusiastic, caring and passionate people to become an integral part of our support team. In this role, you will support our young people and be responsible for providing compassionate care during your time with them.
Our benefits include:
1. Exclusive access to reward and discount scheme
2. Blue Light card
3. Comprehensive induction
4. Commitment to your ongoing training and career progression
5. Pension scheme
6. Paid for enhanced DBS
7. Wellbeing support
8. Cycle to work scheme and more!
Unsted Park School is a specialist residential and day school/6th form college for children and young people with higher functioning autism. We are committed to providing the highest level of education and care in a safe, positive environment that enables each individual to achieve his or her maximum potential.
The focus of the whole school approach is in three core areas: education, independence and inclusion. Based on these core areas we provide individual, child-centred programmes which recognise individual abilities and strengths and help students to reach their full potential.
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and proactive individual to provide a home from home experience for our boarders. We would welcome motivated and dynamic people who work well in a close team to help guide our young people to achieve the best possible outcomes. We strive to promote the highest levels of independence in all aspects of their lives. By acting as a positive role model you will provide effective supervision for the young people to thrive and reach their full potential.
This role will suit professional individuals who are prepared to work flexibly in a vibrant, caring and supportive environment.
Previous experience of working within a special needs environment is desirable together with an NVQ3 or L4 Diploma in relevant Care/Children & Young People related area (or willing to work towards this qualification).
As part of Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. We ask that you can demonstrate the values needed for a role, transferable skills, and life experience and in return we will give you all the training and support you need to progress to become a qualified Residential Support Worker and further.
At Aspris Children’s Services, we are immensely proud of the career pathway and training we can offer you. As long as you can demonstrate the values needed for a role within residential childcare, we will give you all the training and support you need to progress!
Resilience – We support some of the most vulnerable children in society who have varying degrees of emotional behavioural difficulties, autism, ADHD and associated difficulties so there will be times where your resilience is challenged.
Communication – Communicating with our young people is vital to understand their needs. Good teamwork and communication plays a key part in ensuring important information is relayed to other staff.
Organisation – As well as supervising the staff team, you’ll need to be confident and organised in updating care plans and reporting information that will be relevant to the care of our young people.
Caring – Our young people require the best care we can offer. If you are a naturally caring and compassionate person, this is the role for you.
Attentive – No young person is the same so being attentive to understand them and identify areas where we can support is important.
Above all, we provide a supportive and collaborative working environment where you can flourish in your career and feel incredibly rewarded by helping those who need it most.
If you want residential childcare to be a job for life, Aspris Children’s Services will help you there.
Aspris is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All applicants must be willing to undergo safeguarding screening appropriate to the post, including checks with Disclosure & Barring Service and at least 2 references which cover the last 3 years, for all our services we will request references from where you have worked with either Children or Vulnerable Adults. Please be advised that references may be requested prior to interview for roles within our Schools.