Children Support Worker / EBD School

Are you a Support Worker who wants to make a real difference to the lives of young people with Emotional Behavioural Difficulties? If the answer is “yes”, please read on.

Salary: £26,000per year – 28 days holiday – weekly pay

Location: Westbury

Details: Independent Therapeutic School supporting young people with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (EBD). The school is rated by Ofsted as good.

Benefits include:

* The Salary: is £26,000per year depending on shift type
* £50 sleep in (after successful probation)
* Temporary shifts available – mornings, afternoons, full days, weekends and sleep-ins. ( There are no minimum hours, we have some people that pick up 1 shift a week to people that work here full time).
* 28 days Holiday (including bank holidays)
* Free Training
* Weekly pay
* £25 Love2Shop referral scheme

The Organisation:

The school offers a comprehensive, integrated programme of Residential, Educational and Therapeutic support for girls aged 9 to 17 years with profound and multiple needs in terms of their emotional, psychological and attachment development.

They have developed consistently successful programmes for working with girls who present difficult to manage or chaotic behaviours- which may have been triggered by a number of factors which may include; self-harm, abuse, sexual exploitation, dysfunctional and/or destructive family patterns.

The organisation helps girls to gain some awareness of how their experiences have resulted in a sense of chaos and confusion, culminating in an awareness of non-integration with themselves and alienation from society and promotes self-belief, confidence, motivation, trust, openness and resourcefulness.

They work with young people, their families and other organisations to identify methods of working that understand, develop and change behaviours.

Requirements:

* Minimum 6 Months paid experience in the last year with young people with Emotional Behavioural Difficulties
* At least 21 years of age due to the age of the young people you will support.
* DBS check (We can facilitate this for you)
* References from 2 most recent employers
* Car driver preferable due to the remote location.
* Essential: NVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care

Responsibilities:

* Ensuring the safety of the service users and maintaining an up to date knowledge of each individual’s; care plan, guidelines, reward system and preferred method of communication.
* Assisting young people who use the service to get involved in a range of new opportunities, experiences and activities, these include going to the gym, swimming, shopping and other outdoor activities.
* Creating and encouraging good relationships and communication with the people who use the service.
* Ability to work and adhere to the guidelines of Safeguarding Children and Young People and Working Together 2013 document.
* Be passionate about making a difference to the young people residing at the community.
* Supporting taxing behaviours safely and sympathetically.

Do you know someone who might be interested in this position? We offer a £25 Love2Shop voucher to you for any successful applicant that you refer to us.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

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