Support workers required to join a new residential childrens home.
Work base: Llandudno
Do you want to work to make a positive difference to the lives of young people?
We are passionate about working together to make a positive difference to the lives
of children and young people to 'have the best life possible' by providing them with a
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supportive and homely environment that is centred on their individual needs. This will
be achieved by putting the child / young person at the centre of all support planning
and developing strategies that will enable the child/young person to develop skills in
all aspects of their life to give them independence and feeling included in their
communities based on what is important to them.
Sylva Garden's is a Registered Children's Home for 3 children up to the age of 18.
What you will do:
- Assist children and young people to have their voice heard and support them to
develop skills towards their longer term future.
- Plan and implement imaginative activities with the person that will also help them to
develop skills.
- Understand that some children communicate their thoughts and feelings using
behaviours of concern and you will have a 'can do' approach to teach the child to
communicate in a different way, team working is key.
- Work as part of a team in the Child's home or local community, motivating and
supporting the individual to take part in a wide range of special interests and
activities that support their health and wellbeing such as trampolining, visiting the
beach /park, walking, swimming, baking / cooking, playing games, singing and
dancing, crafts to name a few.
- Provide support in a homely, kind and friendly environment which is unique to each
child/young person where they feel happy and safe.
- Work as a team providing bespoke support unique to each child's development
needs.
You will be expected to:
- Ensure that you promote, and value 'Active Support', 'Positive Behaviour Support'
and the 'Reduction of Restrictive Practices' approaches as a central method of
enabling children and young people to engage more in their daily lives; building
strong relationships with those surrounding them, developing independent living
skills and becoming active members within their communities through delivering high
quality care.
- Be able to deal with difficult encounters and critical situations and apply appropriate
/ innovative strategies in supporting children/young people to manage behaviours
that challenge.
- Demonstrate commitment, openness, and willing to engage with the approach to
the model of care in order to meet the needs of the children/young people.
- Create a homely, warm, kind, friendly, environment ensuring that all your actions
are transparent and open for discussion in professional supervision in accordance
with the Codes of Professional Practice for Social Care.
- Develop trusted professional relationships with children and young people to keep
them safe, balancing empowerment and limit setting in a nurturing, supportive and
consistent way.
- Develop own skills to successfully communicate with the child/young person
following a strategy that they would understand.
- Work unsociable hours on a rota basis
What we are looking for from you:
- To have experience of working effectively with children and young people who
present challenging behaviours.
- Have already achieved QCF Level 3 in Health and Social Care Children and Young
People in order to maintain registration with Social Care Wales as a Residential
Childcare Worker.
- Ability to achieve a Level 3 Positive Behaviour Support qualification to understand
why people display behaviours of concern and how to support them to manage these
behaviours.
- Undertake training to gain skills to be able to effectively communicate with the
children and young people e.g. Makaton, PECs.
- An ability to be creative and open minded with support approaches for the children
to reach their potential
- Have a friendly, trustworthy, and supportive nature with a positive outlook on life
and be able to build positive and constructive relationships with the children you
support.
- Have resilience, we all have our good days and bad days, you will need the ability
to remain calm and support,
We will also be holding 2 information sessions to enable interested applicants to find
out more about the post. Please contact Sonia Booth for further information and
details.
To apply please send your CV to
Or you can call me on 01612453633 option 2 to discuss further.
Randstad Care acts as an employment business when supplying temporary staff and as an employment agency when introducing candidates for permanent employment with a client. Randstad Care is an equal opportunities employer and decisions are made on merits alone.
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