Residential Childcare Worker

Job description

Providing care for young people whilst continually demonstrating our values by:

* Creating and maintaining an environment that is homely, warm, welcoming and positive through cleaning, tidying, organising and cooking etc.

* Establishing positive relationships and always offering unconditional and positive regards

* Constantly meeting the physical, emotional, behavioral, cultural and educational needs of our young people

* Acting as a role model and demonstrating appropriate pro-social ways to deal with problems

* Helping our young people to gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behavior and rewarding acceptable pro-social conduct

* Ensuring that each young person’s care plan is followed and innovated as appropriate to reflect their changing needs

* Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties to achieve their best outcomes

* Being friendly and positively ambitious for our young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential

* Supporting our young people in their education and pursuit of extra-curricular activities

* Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager

* Empowering our young people and facilitating their active involvement decisions where appropriate around their lives and future

* Acting as an advocate at meetings where the young person is the subject of discussion

* Encouraging our young people to develop links with the community, attend off-site activities and expand their personal social networks

Contribute to your team whilst demonstrating our values by:

* Being aware of the aims and objectives of the service and working collaboratively with colleagues to achieve them

* Attending team/staff meetings and making a positive and innovative contribution to them at all times

* Actively contributing to the development of the team

* Receiving and storing information to improve communication channels

* Be willing to give and receive feedback on performance with colleagues and managers

* Having awareness of childcare plans for all young people and providing support for colleagues by maintaining consistency in their execution

* Providing informal practical and emotional support to colleagues

* Attending and contributing to regular supervision sessions in line with National Minimum Standards

* Monitoring the conduct of colleagues and referring on any causes for concern (Whistleblowing)

* Maintaining familiarity with all policies and procedures and adhering to them

* Driving company vehicles safely at all times (current driving license holders subject to procedures)

* Receiving and engaging will all training appropriate to role and maintaining an up to date training profile

* Holding responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies

* Performing all other reasonable tasks as directed by the line manager