We are looking for Support Workers to join our client based in Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire.

You will be part of a team of support workers who are supporting children within a residential environment who have experienced trauma and family crisis and are struggling with life and behavior to deal with these changes.

Main Duties

• Ability to build relationships with the children
• Talking through there issues and problems they have to establish their behavior
• Emotional resilience in working with challenging behaviours
• Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the young people
• Establishing a positive routine and working out their own individual needs
• Promoting a positive living environment
• Completion of general household duties
• Recording and reporting everything from the day
• Any concerns about the young people are always shared with their Supervisor or Registered Manager
• Young people are supervised effectively, a positive level of control is maintained and age-appropriate activities are devised
• Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and boundaries with children and young people
• Full manual driving licence
• Able to work 24 hour shifts (if full-time)
• Ideally Level 3 Diploma or equivalent in Health & Social Care (Caring for Children and Young People)

Elite Employment Dorset Ltd does not presently hold a Sponsorship Licence and while this status is reviewed regularly there is no present proposal to apply for such a Licence

Title: Support Worker

Location: Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire

Salary: £11.50 £12.50 depending on experience

Our aim is to contact all successful applications within 5 days of receiving your application. Should you not of heard within 5 days, please feel free to contact us to confirm that your application has been received.