Children Residential Senior Support Worker - Permanent Leeds

Role: Children’s Residential Support Worker.

If you have a passion for helping children and want to help young people achieve their aspirations this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Location: Leeds.

Area: Children’s Homes.

Pay Rate: Basic Salary: C1 £22,571.00 - £24,919.00 (Pro Rata) with sleep-in rate of £36.08,

Night enhancement (time and third after 10pm) and 50% Weekend enhancement rate (time and a half).

Typical earnings are £29,817 - £32,419.

Role: Full Time. Hours of work are flexible and determined by the needs of the service and are on a shift basis which includes early mornings and late-night shifts, weekends and bank holidays. Potential sleep overnight shifts.

Do you want to help Leed’s City Council ensure their aims of ensuring that every child is safe from harm, active in the community and have fun?

Role:

• Under the general direction of the Registered Manger, Senior Staff and Care Offices, you will work as a team to deliver a high standard of care which meets the individual needs of the children and young people both socially and emotionally.
• To make and maintain positive relationships with the children and young people, and to safely meet the physical care and management needs of children and young people who may present challenging behaviour. 
• To offer additional and supplementary cover to the existing staff teams within children’s homes on an “as and when” basis.

Qualifications:

• Educated to GCSE level in or equivalent.
• Basic computer literacy is essential. To hold qualifications in both literacy and numeracy. 
•  Although, there is no requirement to undertake the minimum qualification of Level 3 Diploma in Residential Child Care this would be an advantage

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV in reply to this advert or to . Or send me an email if you have any questions and want to talk about the role further. 

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