Job Description

Residential Support Worker

Barnet

17/hr

Start date: ASAP

Full Time: Mon - Fri - 36/hrs a week

Hatched Recruitment is looking for a Residential Support Worker in the Barnet area. This is a newly opened children's home based in Hendon NW4. Its is 2 bed home, supporting 2 young people . Shift work and weekend work will apply. There is an onsite drive way to park. Enhanced DBS required.

Key Responsibilities

1. To work in a small team in order to support and implement the development of the children's home.

2. To enhance and effect change to the good of all children with whom they work by acquiring the necessary skills through their own training and development.

Key Tasks

1.To ensure that the young people's needs are recognised and met. This includes ensuring that they are free from discrimination within the home and to challenge discrimination from outside the home.

2. To protect the young people from harm in and outside the home.

3. To assist the management in the home in compliance with Ofsted, legislation, and the ethos and policies of the company.

4. To exercise responsible control over the children to ensure their safety and well being and assist them in developing acceptable standards of personal hygiene and behaviour. This also applies to

encouraging children to abide by house rules and principles.

5. To participate in the development, implementation and monitoring of the individual young people's care plans.

3. In accordance with plans for the day, to organise and supervise recreational and leisure activities both in and out of the home to provide the children with an interesting and stimulating life. This

includes being prepared to spend time away from home on holidays and at camps etc.

4. To ensure positive participation in the children's home and attend training

Organisational

• To undertake broadly similar duties commensurate with the level of the post as required by the Manager.
• To fulfil Health & Safety responsibilities.
• To work within the provisions of the Data Protection Act, observing strict confidentiality in relation to all aspects of work undertaken.
• The post holder will be expected to undertake training and development deemed necessary for the pursuance of the post
• The post holder will be expected to competently use electronic systems effectively