Children’s Waking Night Residential Worker
Waking Night Residential Worker – Looked After Children - Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, Children and Young People’s Services
Salary details: £20,092 - £21,748 plus enhancements and excellent benefits
37 hours per week, permanent
Closing date: 21st February 2021
Due to current Coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions we are following Government advice and this may result in interviews being held via video call.
ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY
Are you keen to work as part of team to deliver high quality care and intervention to children and young people in residential homes across Rotherham? This post could be for you…
Following Cabinet approval, our Children and Young People’s Service are now recruiting for Children’s Waking Night residential worker and also
Registered Children's Home Manager
Residential Practitioners
Casual Children’s Residential Practitioners
These new posts will play a key role in the delivery of a range of in-house residential provision for Rotherham looked after children.
Rotherham Council has made a strategic decision to make a significant investment in children’s residential services. This will ensure more of our looked after children are placed in Rotherham, close to their local communities, family and schools.
We are using current best practice and evidence-based models to develop a range of new children`s homes including 2 and 4 bed EBD, emergency accommodation and solo provision for some of our most complex children and young people.
We are particularly looking for waking night worker residential workers with experience of working with children and young people who are willing to part of a waking night rota for our small 2 bed homes.
This new residential provision will be part of a Children and Young People Service judged as `Good` by Ofsted in January 2018 and build on practice from our short break residential home judged as `Outstanding` in February 2020.
Children’s Waking Night residential worker in Rotherham will:
Promote, safeguard and protect the welfare of each child and ensure the child is the primary focus.
Present as a positive role model and to represent the home and wider department in a manner fitting a professional person working in the child care sector.
Encourage a child’s choice in as many facets of daily life as may be possible and to promote self-advocacy and/or advocate on behalf of the child.
Work as a member of team ensuring the ongoing care of children is undertaken in a sensitive and caring manner
Assist in the planning, implementation and review of individual programmes of care, working in partnership with parents/carers and liaising with locality social work staff, specialists and other professional agencies.
Engage in the day to day running of the home to include: planning and participating in activities, provision of meals, personal and intimate care, supporting the administration of medication in line with the council’s Medication Policy and completing administrative tasks as required including safe handling of cash.
To assist key work teams to complete relevant records and reports using both written and electronic communication. These will include: Care Plans, Risk Assessments, Daily Records, Financial Documents, Reports for Reviews and Timesheets.
To participate in mandatory staff training programmes as appropriate and attend staff meetings and formal supervision sessions in line with corporate and statutory guidelines.
To assist in the maintenance and security of the building during the night time hours of working.
Key benefits of working at Rotherham Council’s Children and Young People’s service are:
Strong support and clear direction from Managers
Training programme, to develop and professionalise our residential practitioners. This includes the Rotherham Family Approach incorporating Signs of Safety and Restorative Practice
Residential services that have access to and work closely with our high quality in house therapeutic service
Innovative Edge of Care Services and a strong Early Help offer which is reducing demand and supporting professionals to think systemically and develop creative options to support children and young people
The prioritisation of Looked After Children for CAMHS assessment and intervention
The opportunity to make a real difference to the children, young people and families
Investment in you as a practitioner involving support, supervision, training and opportunity for professional development and progression.
Local Authority pension and 29 days annual leave, to be taken in line with the agreed weekend annual leave allocation as detailed in employer handbook.
About you
We are seeking resilient and child focused workers who are committed to:
Developing their skills and practices in order to provide an outstanding residential service to children and young people
Supporting and caring for some of our most complex children and young people, at times in solo provision
Working night shifts during the week and at weekends as part of the residential team
Our vision is for the children and families of Rotherham to routinely experience and describe the services they receive from us, as outstanding and we intend to do that by putting the child first in everything we do.
By being part of our residential teams, you will play a crucial role in developing our collective commitment to an ethos of excellence, integrity, trust and transparency. Joining us at a time of change with regard to developing our provision provides you an opportunity to be involved and influence the service design and development of practice in line with best practice and evidence-based approaches.
About Yorkshire
Rotherham and the wider South Yorkshire region is a great place to live and a stone’s throw from some of the UK’s finest towns and cities, and is home to some of the most beautiful countryside in Britain. Easy to reach from Sheffield or Leeds, there are plenty of places to see, things to do and property is excellent value for money - all within a 2 hour train journey from London.
If you have any questions regarding these opportunities and or would like a conversation about these new roles please email william.shaw@rotherham.gov.uk
Confirmation of this appointment is also subject to a medical assessment.
This post involves working with children and therefore if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at an enhanced level. Further information about the Disclosure Scheme can be found at www.gov.uk/disclosure-barring-service-check
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
From 1st April 2017 to 31st March 2022 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a weekly / monthly deduction (dependent on pay frequency) from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded of three additional day’s leave (pro rata for part-time).