Residential Child Care Support Worker (Sessional/Casual) Full Time/Permanent: Shift pattern- ad-hoc cover Salary: £12.72 per hour North Lakes Children’s Services is a well-established local provider of residential care and education for boys aged 6-18. We improve the resilience, self-esteem and abilities of all the young people we work with. As a Support Care Worker there is a high expectation placed on you to be “robust, committed and passionate” about your role.

The young people are at the centre of everything we do - both for and with them. We are currently seeking Care Workers to join our teams either in our 3 homes in Carlisle or our one home in Headsnook on a casual basis who have a warm and approachable manner, and feel they can make a significant impact on a young person’s life in how they recover from early life experiences. In each home we have detailed shift planners/diaries/handover documents that will outline the specific daily duties and tasks that you will be required to complete, these will be specific to whether it is term-time (school days) or during holiday periods as some of the tasks will differ.

The following is a summary of some of your duties during term-time Supporting all of the boys daily routines, including getting them up, promoting personal hygiene routines, meals,



either school runs or activities Attending medical/other appointments Completion of day sheets for the boys and working with them on their targets Complete any food/other shopping needs, including meal preparation and kitchen hygiene/laundry duties Completion of any specific checks such as COSHH, Fire Checks/Car checks Liaising and building appropriate relationships with the families, working to find out about special dates for boys and ensuring these are noted/marked, sorting and planning family time contacts Flexibility in your availability is a must as the role could involve sleep in nights and shift work of up to 14 hours. Have an understanding of the issues that face young people in care Hold Residential Childcare/Families Practitioner Diploma/Children and Young People's Workforce/NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care or equivalent – or be willing to work towards a required qualification Experience with Emotional Behavioural Disorder, Social/Residential Work or Youth Work would be advantageous. Have a full, clean UK driving licence and be able to cover at other Residential Homes as and when needed.

North Lakes

Children's Services is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. The company committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. #

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