Residential Support Worker

Duration: Initially 3 months
Hours: 37 hours a week
Rate: £16.93 umbrella an hour (£14 PAYE an hour)
Location: Exeter

Devon County Council are looking for a Residential Support Worker to join one of their Secure Children's Homes in Exeter.

Responsibilities:

• Provide a safe, caring, stimulating and secure environment for children and young people who have experience significant trauma and deemed by the courts to need to be secured
• To create an environment within the home that promotes positive respect for children, young people and staff
• Encourage and enable children and young people to achieve their maximum potential
• Carry out observations and assessments on young people; and provide information to the case coordinator
• To take responsibility as the support worker in overseeing the personal care, welfare and health of children and young people
• To assist in devising care, education and wellbeing plans

Requirements:

• Experience of working with children and young people with challenging behaviours
• Knowledge of child development and the impact of trauma
• GCSE English (pass)
• NVQ 3 relevant qualification