Children Residential Support Worker - Permanent

Position: Children's Residential Support Worker

Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire

Salary: £26,000 - £35,000 per annum (including sleep-in allowance)

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent - 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?

Our goals:

We believe that every Children’s Services employee can make a contribution to make our vision a reality and we encouraged everyone to work as part of the directorate team to shape children and family centred local services based on our priorities of:

Helping children to live in safe and supportive families ensuring that we protect the most vulnerable encouraging activity and healthy eating improving support where there are additional health needs promoting sexual health readiness for school improving behaviour, attendance and achievement reducing the numbers of young people who are not in employment, education or training providing opportunities for play, leisure, culture and sporting opportunities reducing youth crime and anti-social behaviour increasing participation, voice and influence     

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.

Leeds City Council are open to people with transferable skills and a good mind-set, so if have worked with children then please add as much detail in your CV to be booked in for an interview

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