Qualified Residential Support Worker

At Horizon, we believe that each young person is unique and should be enabled to feel confident about their future, no matter what they have been through in life.

Horizon Care and Education have an opportunity for a Children's Residential Support Worker to join our team in our homes across the West Midlands region.

You will need to be open to working in a reflective manner and deliver relationship-based, person centred care as part of a small team. This will involve a combination of day, evening, night, weekend, and bank holiday working.

About the role:

As a Residential Support Worker, you will support young people in the many different aspects of daily life within our homes including:

Helping young people continue with hobbies, social activities, and friendships, and learn new skills.
Providing support with morning routines such as getting ready for school and making sure they have a good breakfast.
Preparing evening meals and ensuring the young person has a safe space to relax and unwind within the home.
Supporting young people to reach their potential and experience new opportunities.

Skills/qualifications needed:

Must hold, or be working towards and complete, within 2 years of starting at the home the Level 3 Diploma for Residential Childcare (England), or hold an equivalent qualification such as NVQ 3 caring for children and young people and be prepared to complete any additional work to meet the required level.
Experience of working as a support worker in a similar setting
How you'll be rewarded:

Real Living Wage employer
Competitive pay rates
Christmas bonus
Blue Light Card
Colleague referral scheme with cash rewards - earn up to £2500 per referral! *
Financial wellbeing service
Life Assurance
Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
Tastecard - spectacular savings on dining, pizza, cinema tickets, supermarkets, and UK attractions
Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development
Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period
Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme
Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
Employee assistance programme - free, confidential support
Community and wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We're in this together
Supportive management and senior leaders
High quality CPD opportunities
Free eye checks
If you're passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people and enabling them to shape their own future, then we want you to be part of our team.

A full UK driving licence is needed for this role