Support Worker

Salary: £26,000 per year

Potter Johnson Recruitment are pleased to be working together with a well-established, family run children’s and young adult’s service. Our client is a Social Care organisation providing support and accommodation to young people, with SEBD, across Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Buckinghamshire.

Our client can offer a fantastic and intensive learning programme for their Support workers which will develop individual skills in sessions including Safeguarding, Attachment Theory, Reflective Practice, Motivational Interviewing and much more.

Their qualified, multidisciplinary team of Social Workers, Teachers and Health Practitioners ensures every member of the Support worker team is supported with regular supervision and team meetings. In addition, they provide a comprehensive pension and financial advice service and the opportunity to develop and progress.

Due to expansion, our client is currently recruiting for Support Workers to join their Children’s homes based in Ipswich. This role will include lone and group working with young people aged 14+.

The support team deliver a personalised service to young people, delivering day to day interventions and building a positive relationship. Each member of the Support worker team is encouraged to be creative within their role and group reflective exercises within your team allow for continued personal development.

Support worker – Job Description

• To be responsible for managing the project whilst on shift, taking full responsibility for managing the establishment, (the resources and the fabric of the building) and, most importantly, the welfare of the young people.
• Promote the development of the young people
• Protect young people from threats to their health, welfare and normal development, both from inside and outside the home. Understand and implement all safeguarding related policies.
• Ensure that key stages in the stay of young people such as admission and discharge are properly managed and reflect decisions recorded in care plans
• Ensure that young people facing particular crises and stresses are offered appropriate additional support
• Ensure that young people are responsible for their own lives, involving them in planning their lives, supporting them and helping them towards taking greater control and responsibility
• As a support worker, participate in the development, implementation and monitoring of individual support plans and engaging young people in learning.
• Contribute to and complete risk assessment regarding clients when necessary.
• Support our clients with transport when required
• Use the community as a means of support and social learning for the young people
• Encourage, and where possible ensure, that the clients respect others in the community.
• Build positive relationships with community members, ensuring that the privacy of the clients is not affected.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with family members where appropriate, social workers, school staff and other professionals with a concern for the young person’s needs.
• Ensure constructive and positive communication and negotiation with referring agencies regarding young people.
• Complete health and safety checks and cleaning tasks as set out within the project’s daily plans.
• Complete training and subsequently administer medication in compliance to policy when required.

The hours are full time, 39 hrs a week to also include 3 sleep ins a week (Paid additionally on top of basic salary). The hours are on a rota basis so you must be flexible and able to work unsocial hours.

Desirable for Support worker role

• NVQ Level 2 in Social Care or a similar subject
• A full driving licence

If you have the right skills and experience and are interested in this Support worker role, please submit your CV!