Job Description

Children's Residential Support Worker

Are you a Residential Support worker ready to leave your mark? Help shape a children's home from the ground up and create a lasting impact on young lives.

Doing Things the Right Way: We are committed to ethical, high-quality care, ensuring every decision is made with integrity and the best interests of the children at heart. Child-Focused Values: Our work revolves around the needs and well-being of the children we serve, creating a positive, nurturing environment for their growth and development. Employee Satisfaction: We pride ourselves on fostering a supportive workplace where team members feel valued, empowered, and motivated to excel.
Company Description

Lazarus Care is an independent children's care provider run by a friendly team. Our care home has been fully thought out throughout and will offer a comfortable, welcoming, homely working environment for the successful candidate. Our key objective is to make sincere and positive changes to young people and children's lives who come from challenging backgrounds, and we seek the very best individuals to be part of this influential journey.

We value and are committed towards equality and diversity within our company and aim to ensure our staff reflect the diversity of the children and young people within our care.

Safeguarding of children and young people in our care is of the highest importance. Our recruitment and vetting process aims to create a safe environment for all children, young people and staff.

Duties and Responsibilities:

General Duties

As a support worker in a residential children's home your main duties and requirements would include:

Promoting, safeguarding and protecting the welfare of our young people Establishing and maintaining positive and trusting relationships with our young people Encouraging the development of individual interests of our young people To support children and young people with their daily routines, which will include setting up communication strategies and planned activities and programmes, which will be in and out of the home. Support children in annual holidays and day trips as part of a rota pattern. Ensure children and young people are supported to be as independent as possible Support with living skills such as meal preparation, laundry and shopping To ensure all children and young people's health care needs are met A desire to learn, we provide full training for you to achieve a Childcare Diploma level 3 - Under regulation this needs to be completed within 2 years of working in residential childcare. Experience of supporting young people who may be vulnerable is desired but not essential
What do we need from you?

Understanding and commitment to the role - including some weekends and bank holidays Undertake sleep-in duties as part of a flexible rota Participating in activities and ensuring we provide young people with a place they feel loved and at home Be capable of working on your own initiative Ability to prioritise and organise day-to-day workload Have good inter-personal skills and be a positive team player Able to produce written reports on the progress of young people and work to high standard A desire to engage, motivate and encourage the young people in our homes Good time keeping To make secure the building on leaving the home. Attendance to attend team meetings- these are every 2 weeks.
Working Hours and Environment

Hours of work are an average of 40 hours per week, working a shift-rota pattern. You are required to work any day of the week based on the rota pattern. This includes sleep-ins (staff bedroom and separate shower room facilities provided). You must be within commuting distance of Sutton Coldfield.
What We Can Offer you

Aside from the fulfilling aspect of helping to support young people reach positive outcomes, there are other benefits to this role. The work undertaken by our dedicated teams are invaluable to us, Lazarus Care employees also have access to the following benefits:

Competitive salary up to 13 per hour sleep-ins are paid at an additional 60.00 per sleep in) Professional training & development opportunities Comprehensive induction programme Therapeutic training & consultation for all staff Performance related bonus for achieving Ofsted ratings Open minded, supportive management team Progression and growth opportunities Opportunity to be part of creating a new residential care home. Wonderful working environment
Benefits:

Free Meals on shift Employee Assist Programme- Healthshield Employee of Month - Child related accomplishment, Peer related, company values Shift line of the Month Quarterly Registered Manager Recognition Annual Awards Birthday off Length of service recognition
Pay: 13.00 per hour

Benefits:

Casual dress Company pension Discounted or free food Employee mentoring programme Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking Private dental insurance Referral programme
Work Location: In person