Residential Support Worker

The Role

Residential Support Worker – Children’s Home

£22,051 to £29,537 (£12.08-£14.38ph) pa

Additional sleep-in payment per shift (around £3,000pa)

Experienced of working with children with additional needs? Have a passion to apply this within a Children’s Home, aiding their independence within a nurturing setting? Interested in learning BSL, upskilling in a range of skills, with opportunity for career development?

Rolle House is a registered Children’s Home specialising in supporting Deaf young people with complex needs. The Home has a distinct ethos as being nurturing and child-centred, applying therapeutic and trauma informed approaches (Thrive). You’ll receive training and have your own development plan that enables you to learn quickly and apply this to your role. In the day to day of your role as Residential Support Worker, you’ll be supporting our young people in developing their everyday opportunities, creating fun and developmental activities that support their independence. All helping to create happy memories as part of the young people’s childhood experiences. Working on a rota as part of a team of 4 and reporting to a Team Lead, you’ll work around 35 hours (including sleep-ins as part of a 24 hours shift) across a 3-week shift pattern.

Working at the Deaf Academy as part of our Residential Support team, you can be certain that you are part of a team that does its utmost to inspire and enable our young people to thrive. Preparing young people for a happy, healthy and fulfilling future is what it’s all about for us.

Want to hear from our current staff about their experiences, take a look here: Children's Home - Rolle House - the Deaf Academy

Can you demonstrate:

• Experience of working with children with additional needs, and a desire to work within a care setting
• A caring and resilient personality who really wants to make a difference to young people’s lives
• The drive and motivation to achieve outstanding outcomes for the young people we support
• Proven experience with working in a successful team
• Commitment to training and development, including sponsorship to achieve BSL and NVQ L3 in Residential Care (Children and Young People)

What we offer:

• Group Personal Pension including 8% employer contribution
• Life assurance scheme of x3 the employees actual salary
• Sponsorship to achieve British Sign Language (BSL) qualifications up to Level 3 and NVQ qualifications
• Recruitment referral bonus scheme of £500 in total
• Cycle to work scheme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Access to a 24/7 Employee assistance program
• The opportunity to join a committed team of professionals working together to secure high achievement for all our young people
• Opportunity to work in caring and supportive home, part of a larger Charity and located within a very close proximity to the beach.

 *Regular sleep-ins will be required with the role but these are not contractual or guaranteed. Sleep-ins are paid at a rate of £45 per night.   

Salary progression is dependent on the completion of BSL qualifications up to Level 3 and the attainment of the Level 3 Children and Young Peoples Workforce Diploma.

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