We're looking for an experienced Senior Support Worker to join our children's home, supporting young people with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties.
This is a role for someone who understands that progress isn't always straightforward. Building trust takes time, consistency and patience, but the impact you can have is lasting.
Our home provides a safe, stable and supportive environment where children and young people can begin to rebuild confidence, develop resilience and achieve positive outcomes. As a Senior Support Worker, you'll play a key role in creating that environment while supporting and guiding colleagues on shift.
We're looking for someone with experience, emotional resilience and the ability to stay calm under pressure. You'll be confident in managing challenging situations, maintaining professional boundaries and building positive relationships with young people who may have experienced significant trauma.
If you're committed to delivering high-quality care and want to be part of a team that supports each other as much as the young people in our care, we'd love to hear from you.
Senior Support Worker Benefits
- Highly competitive salary.
- A caring and supportive senior management team who really value their staff.
- Full induction and introductory programme
- Fully funded training and qualifications.
- Enhanced pay scales that recognise both qualifications and experience.
- Enhanced pay bank holidays.
- Free meals.
Senior Support Worker Role
- Working on a shift based rota with 2 sleeps per week.
- To undertake a lead role in ensuring the care and welfare of each child in placement.
- Coordinate and attend meetings with schools, social workers, and the local authority.
- Help oversee a team of support workers, providing guidance and training in various therapeutic techniques and protocols.
- Write reports for LAC, Placement reviews and Care plans.
- To raise any concerns with the Registered Manager as appropriate.
- Dealing with challenging behaviour (verbally abusive, possibly threatening behaviour)
- Positive role modelling at all times and maintaining a consistent approach.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary healthcare teams to develop comprehensive care plans.
- Administer and document medication.
- Conduct and create risk assessments to safeguard children and young people.
- Build rapport with vulnerable children ages 10 to 17 years old and their families on supervised contact.
- Positive behaviour support and physical intervention.
- Conduct Keywork sessions.
- Liaise between social workers, families, and healthcare professionals.
- To safeguard and promote the welfare of young people.
The successful candidate will:
- Be passionate about improving the lives of children and young people.
- Have an understanding of trauma-informed practice and the resilience to respond calmly and effectively to challenging behaviour.
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to provide guidance and support to children, young people and their families (following training).
- Be able to use their initiative and make sound decisions when resolving problems.
- Act as a positive role model, promoting healthy relationships and positive behaviours.
- Be able to work effectively under pressure, managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Work collaboratively as part of a supportive team to achieve the best outcomes for young people.
If you meet the above, please send your CV now and we will be in touch.
