Protective Care Group are looking for passionate and caring Support Workers to help create a safe, loving environment for children that exhibit extremely challenging behaviour resulting from trauma.

Our young people are at the heart of everything we do, so it is only right that this advert is about them too.

In this role, our young people want their Support Workers to:

• Provide them with guidance, coaching and mentoring (although don't take it personally if they do the opposite repeatedly, you were a child once too!)

• Remind them that you care and never give up on them no matter how extremely challenging the behaviour they send your way is (and it will be, including physical aggression, verbal aggression, absconding, self-harm and sexualise behaviours)

• Provide them with a consistent, homely and safe environment to grow and develop

Requirements

Our young people don't really mind what work experience their Support Workers have, so we'll follow their lead, and are open to considering candidates with or without experience working with vulnerable people. Ultimately for our young people, they want their Support Workers to:

• Be playful, accepting, curious and empathetic at the right times

• Confidently and calmly de-escalate situations and behaviours that are challenging for our young people in a variety of ways that suit their needs and keep them safe

• Have a full UK manual driving licence (our young people like to go out and about too!)

• See that they have potential despite the extremely challenging behaviour they exhibit, their complex needs and the adversities like trauma, abuse and criminalisation that they may have experienced so far in their lives

• Be able to keep up with them emotionally, mentally and physically (behaviour may mean that running after a young person or being involved in a physical intervention is likely)

• Be resilient, adaptable and flexible to meet their needs and provide them with an exceptional level of care.

• Have flexibility to work across the North East, we support a lot of Young People so you could be asked to work in any of our teams and be happy to work a varied shift pattern (consisting of both day shifts, waking night shifts and days followed by sleep ins)

Benefits

The ultimate reward for this job is knowing that you've made a difference to a young person's quality of life and prospects, but our Support Workers also benefit from:

• Competitive salary of £32,000, plus shift uplifts & sleep-in pay.

• Paid leave, sick pay, and a company pension.

• Comprehensive training and clear pathways for career progression, including fully funded industry recognised qualifications. We actively seek to develop the potential of not only our young people but our staff as well.

• Wellbeing support and access to confidential counselling services.

• A supportive culture, we celebrate successes through supervisions and quarterly nomination schemes!

It's important that you understand all aspects of the role before of applying, like the working hours, location and the types of challenges you may encounter. Please follow this link to find out more: https://careers/support-workers/