Senior Children’s Residential Worker

Exciting opportunity – Senior Residential Worker needed in our Outstanding children’s home! Wakefield is ambitious for children and has adopted an innovative approach throughout its 2 bed residential model. Many children are misplaced into children’s homes due to a national shortage of foster placements. This leads to vulnerable young people being placed a long way from home and not always achieving the best outcomes. To support this, we are seeking to appoint a suitably skilled, qualified, and motivated Senior Residential Worker to work alongside the Assistant Manager and Homes Manager to lead and develop our home, working with two children aged between 7 – 17 years old. An excellent understanding of the needs of children in care, with a clear ambition to provide outstanding services for the children we look after, is required. We will provide you with excellent supervision, appraisal, ongoing training, and support in obtaining your management qualification awards. This post requires an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual with good communication skills. You will need to be organized and confident in interactions with children and young people. Previous experience of trauma-informed practices, therapeutic caring, and connective parenting are desirable although full training will be provided. It is essential that you are kind, caring, patient, resilient, and can see the need behind behaviors. You should be committed to improving the life chances of the children and young people and share our ethos of never giving up and a full team around the child approach. Candidates will have significant experience of working in a relevant setting for children and young people, experience of preparing, implementing, and reviewing care plans for children. The successful candidate should have the ability to: Relate and communicate to a wide spectrum of people, including children and young people, their carers, and other professionals. Work in a therapeutic manner. Make appropriate decisions when under pressure. Contribute to the support and mentoring of staff. Demonstrate literacy and numeracy skills to maintain records and prepare reports. Assess needs and draw up and implement appropriate care plans in conjunction with partner agencies. Exhibit high emotional resilience. Qualifications: You will hold an NVQ3 / Diploma in Caring for Children and Young People. Effective supervision, induction, and good training are provided to all staff. The work involves shift patterns, including weekends and Bank Holidays. Benefits include: Weekend Allowance Shift allowance Enhanced Bank holiday and weekend pay Generous annual leave entitlement Competitive salary with yearly increments Employee Assistance Programme Access to OHU To apply please click the

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