Children’s Residential Support Worker (RSW) required in Bedfordshire

Job Title : Children’s Residential Support Worker (RSW)

Location(s) :  Various Locations

Contract : Full Time & Part time Agency / Bank

Salary : £11.00 – £16.00 per hour based on shift pattern

OneCall24 specialises in recruiting and supplying highly qualified, experienced medical professionals for permanent, contract, and temporary positions in the NHS and private healthcare organisations in the UK.

We work with a talented pool of driven healthcare professionals open to permanent, contract and temporary positions. We pride ourselves in providing excellent service, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, as well as a thorough compliance and governance process, ensuring we deliver the best candidates to our clients.

As an RSW, you will be responsible for assisting and supporting young people in their day to day. You will attend to their practical, physical, and emotional needs. Be there as a role model and enable them to work through their difficulties to reach their goals and ambitions.

Some of the duties could include :

• High quality of care and support for children and young people.
• Working within the guidelines from the 1989 Children’s Act, National Minimum Standards, Every Child Matters, and other relevant legislation.
• Create a nurturing, supportive and caring environment in which children feel safe and secure.
• Establish positive relationships with the children and young people.
• Ensure care plans are followed and in date.
• Attending to practical matters in relations to childcare such as cooking, cleaning, general maintenance around the home.
• Act as key worker for young people and children to ensure plans are met and in date.
• Provide emotional support at times of difficulty or stress.
• Being ambitious for young people and helping them achieve their goals.
• Providing support with their educational needs and extracurricular activities, this may include supporting them in the classroom if needed.
• Acting as an advocate at meetings where the young person is the subject of discussion.
• Deal with challenging behaviour

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