Night Residential Support Workers - Children
**We are UNABLE to accept applications from candidates seeking visa sponsorship**
To be considered you must complete an application form on our website by going to www.rmt.org/jobs.
40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year (4 nights/week)
Salary : £29,308 - £29,834 (subject to qualifications)
*Inclusive of a market supplement
Sunfield Garden School and Children’s Home sustains a distinguished historical legacy in the beautiful Clent Hills, West Midlands. Sunfield’s farm, walled garden and woodlands provide excellent opportunities for outdoor learning and practical activities. Sunfield is part of Ruskin Mill Trust.
Established in 1984, Ruskin Mill Trust is an educational charity that operates in England, Scotland and Wales. We offer exciting outdoor learning environments, utilising practical land and craft activities to support the development of work and life skills in young people with autistic spectrum conditions and other learning differences. Our research-led method, Practical Skills Therapeutic Education, is inspired by the work of Rudolf Steiner, John Ruskin and William Morris. Working with hand, head, heart and place, Ruskin Mill Trust helps individuals to re-imagine their potential.
We are looking to appoint Night Residential Support Workers to work closely with children, helping them to feel safe, respected, confident and capable of achieving their best. The successful candidate will have a great character and a desire to make a positive impact on young children’s lives.
Prospective candidates should be able to demonstrate;
- A patient, caring, compassionate child-centred approach.
- Ideally you will be an experienced support worker who has worked in a residential setting and worked with children with challenging behaviours
- You may be required to provide personal care, it would be beneficial for you to have experience of this as well as medication handling experience
- To provide supervision and support of children in their residential settings with a range of domestic activities such as cooking, shopping, cleaning and laundry
- To provide supervision of the service users at night, including behaviour management, medication handling and carrying out household tasks when children are sleeping
- You will have excellent communication skills, as well as experience of report writing and record keeping
- Emotional intelligence and resilience with the ability to react calmly in challenging situations.
Working at Ruskin Mill Trust is incredibly rewarding; we offer competitive salaries and holiday allowances, an auto-enrolment pension scheme with a salary sacrifice option, a health cash plan and employee assistance programme via Medicash.
In addition, staff receive valuable training opportunities including an in-depth interactive induction to enable our new team members to experience our Practical Skills Therapeutic Education (PSTE) curriculum and opportunities for further training and academic research including our own MSc in Practical Skills Therapeutic Education.
Full details of our benefits can be viewed on www.rmt.org/careers
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be required to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service Enhanced Level Disclosure as well as a medical check, references, evidence of qualifications, plus verification of the right to work in the UK.
INDAR
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £29,308.00-£29,834.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
Application question(s):
- We are UNABLE to accept applications from candidates seeking visa sponsorship, please state if you have UK or Irish Citizenship/, pre-2011 EU Settled Status or Indefinite Leave to Remain
Education:
- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)
Experience:
- Residential Childcare: 2 years (required)
- Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- QCF Lv 3 in Residential Childcare (preferred)
- Full UK driving license and own vehicle (required)
Work Location: In person
